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Since ancient times, China has always been a unified country with various ethnic groups coexisting together. Due to their uniqueness in lifestyle and culture, each group has a different aesthetic sense, which are reflected in their decorative patterns.

To give these special patterns contemporary relevance, the patterns have been adopted, recreated and refined with Adobe Illustrator and kept in a vector format, and can be easily used by designers of any discipline, be it in fashion, textile, graphic or interior design.

The art of faience tile making had found its way from Arabic North Africa from where it had slowly progressed northward via Spain, Italy (mainly the city of Faenza, hence the French “faïence”) and Antwerp to arrive about 1570 in the northern Dutch province of Friesland. The Royal Tichelaar Makkum from which the designs in this book originate is the oldest enterprise in the Netherlands and indeed ranks it among the oldest companies in the world. Many of the designs this factory has been using over the years have been compiled in an ancient volume kept in the historical collection of their archives, along with many examples of actual antique tiles. For the first time a selection of these has now been made available for publication in this book.

This is a sister book of “The Traditional Japanese Color”, and focuses on the beauty of Japanese traditional color combination. This book explores the aesthetic of color combination in the traditional Japanese art works, which show its various aspects and constitute the exquisite world of color. About 100 examples of two, three or more color combinations in various fields from painting to annual events in the Japanese art and culture will be included. Color name list of 250 traditional Japanese colors and index with CMYK/ RGB date in the back page.

Rare, versatile, copyright-free volume offers the largest, finest collection of Art Nouveau typographic material: 137 complete alphabets; 23 upper-case fonts; 33 sets of decorative initials; 1951 monograms; 146 signet designs; 179 miscellaneous designs (many with borders) and numerous ornaments. Plus, a selection of Gothic, Roman and Italic faces.

The art of the Eastern Roman Empire and of its capital, Byzantium (Constantinople), found expression throughout the ancient world, particularly in Italian architecture. This superb archive of Byzantine ornament contains a wealth of decorative architectural elements derived from sixth- and seventh-century Italian buildings in Ravenna and in the Venetian church of St. Mark's.

Depicted in more than 250 delicate line drawings are splendid perforated marble panels, intricately fashioned stone grilles and cornices, lavish candle brackets, elaborate stone mosaics for floors and ceilings, bronze window guards, as well as an abundance of decorative wreaths, rosettes, mouldings, and medallions.

A multipurpose reference for students, artists, and designers, this archive of sumptuous, royalty-free designs will also serve as a rich source of inspiration for anyone working in the fine or applied arts.

Practical archive of over 700 wonderfully graceful and imaginative designs featuring flowers, leaves, and vines in delicate interlacements.

A hundred garden favorites rendered in black-and-white line illustrations will suggest numerous design and artistic uses to artists, designers, craftsmen, needleworkers. Amaryllis, anemone, begonia, cinquefoil, peony, snapdragon flow and weave, many forming borders and frames. All drawings royalty-free.

Rich collection of attractive, highly usable folk motifs spans broad range of historical periods and cultures — from ancient Egypt to early 20th-century Japan. Over 700 designs, brimming with native imagination and invention, include examples of decorative artwork derived from textiles, pottery, clothing, masks, tapestries, and other original sources.

This guide to the identification of motifs, designs and patterns of the rich weaving traditions of the Near East and Central Asia is an indispensable resource on Oriental rugs and carpets.

The book is divided into six major regional and tribal groupings, covering Anatolian, Baluchi, Caucasian, Kurdish, Persian and Turkmen motifs. These are further subdivided into sections which give more precise attributions and motif types, and examine the derivations and uses of medallions, field repeats and borders, as well as the relationships between them.

Pattern recognition has long been used to determine the origin and age of rugs, and this detailed analysis of designs and their component elements provides a vital key to accurate attribution.

Lavishly illustrated throughout, this book has become an invaluable aid to identifying the enormous variety of tribal and village rug motifs. It is also a treasure house of creative inspiration for designers of all kinds.

Peter F. Stone is an expert on Oriental carpets and the author of several books, including The Oriental Rug Lexicon.

Tricia Guild is known for her bold fabric, wallpaper designs, and an extraordinary sense of colour and pattern. Following the success of her books on colour, she now shares her skills with patterns. The book draws on historical and global patterns. Woven or printed or embroidered, patterns inspire Tricia Guild as she uncovers their origins and explores the exotic. Any pattern can be appropriate for the right room — European checks and stripes, Asian silks and damasks, the Caribbean's vibrant ethnic prints, as well as contemporary abstract and geometric patterns.

The book is divided into style sections: floral, painterly, geometric, classics, silks, and tropical. The author draws on examples from her own designs to demonstrate the impact pattern has on the energy and mood of a room and how to use pattern with confidence. Included at the end are colorboards with hints and tips for designing.

With stunning, original photography and a text rich in insights from the designer's own experience, this is a must-have compendium for anyone interested in contemporary interior design.

Text in Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish

Turkish design is heavily dependent on the use of ornate calligraphy, geometric patterns and especially floral elements, such as foliage and creeping vines. These forms of decoration reached great heights in the former Ottoman Empire. Turkish Designs contains a collection of carefully reproduced, stunning images, with an emphasis on decorations taken from ceramics, mosaics and tile design.

Turkish design is heavily dependent on the use of ornate calligraphy, geometric patterns and floral elements, such as foliage and creeping vines. This new, revised and expanded edition of Turkish Designs contains a collection of carefully reproduced, stunning images, with an emphasis on decorations taken from ceramics, mosaics and tile design.

Agile Rabbit Editions contain stunning images for use as a graphic resource, or inspiration. All the illustrations are stored in high-resolution format on the enclosed free CD-ROM and are ready to use for professional quality printed media and web page design. The pictures can also be used to produce postcards, or to decorate your letters, flyers, etc. They can be imported directly from the CD into most design, image-manipulation, illustration, word-processing and e-mail programs; no installation is required. For most applications, single images can be used free of charge. Please consult our section on image rights for conditions.