Textile Designs: Two Hundred Years of European and American Patterns Organized by Motif, Style, Color, Layout, and Period Paperback – May 1, 2002

An amazing reference book for textile and surface designers, this book is full of thousands of full-color images, printed on high quality paper, with the designs organized in logical and intelligent ways according to type. Each design is individually labeled, with brief descriptions. Invaluable as a reference!

The typical art books I purchase are about 100 pages, soft bound- fairly thin, but comprehensive. This book was SUCH a great surprise. It's REALLY, REALLY thick (textbook thick, if not more at almost 500 pages), and just FULL of images of textiles from the last 200 years. It certainly *is* a catalog of sorts- every glossy page is covered in full-color images of the details of the textile design, plus pertinent information about the design, the region, etc.This is more of a visual resource than an informational guide to textile design, but if you are remotely interested in textiles or surface design or pattern, this book is pure eye candy.

So happy with this order: above average for book shipments these days. The book arrived well packed, in perfect condition with an added Brodart cover on the dust jacket. Thank you!

Full of clear pictures

I ordered this book a long time ago, but it never showed up, no reason, just didn't show up. If you are a textile designer, this is essential reading, and should be part of you book collection.

This book is full of information and the coloured pages are great too! Note the book is big but o love it!Very happy with my purchase ☺️

I was pleasantly surprised at the photographic examples of fabric. Being a Civil War reenactor, trying to recreate fashion of that era, this book is very helpful. It is categorized by years, shows examples of CDVs, as well as classifying by colors and types of fabric. I am not a quilter, but there are 8 patterns included for reproduction quilt projects, if that interests you. This book was well worth it's purchase price as it is a valuable resource.

Awesome oversized paperback book with hundreds of full color photographs of fabric designs arranged by motif, style, color, layout and period. There are brief but useful descriptions of each subdivision. Also gives the country of origin and year of each design. Try to guess which patterns are old and which are new, you'll be surprised! A great gift for a "material girl", artist, historian, costume/set designer or decorator.