Textile Designs

Textiles Designs
Two Hundred Years of European and American Patterns
Organized by Motif, Style, Color, Layout, and Period

S. Miller & J. Elffers

Never before has the universe of printed textiles had a book of this magnitude and lavishness devoted to it. Covering the past two hundred years, during which the industrial revolution drastically altered textile manufacture, this book presents a dazzling cross-section of the colorful patterned materials that decorate our rooms and clothe our bodies.

A rich and colorful resource in which glamour and usefulness are stunningly combined, this visual encyclopedia of design motifs groups textiles into five chapters under the headings Floral, Geometric, Conversational, Ethnic, and Art Movements and Period Styles. These chapters follow an introduction that provides a brief discussion of printed textiles.

This will be indispensable to professionals in the apparel and home-furnishing fields everywhere, an inspiration to designers in the graphic and visual arts, a reference book for quiltmakers and collectors, and a feast for the eye for lovers of the beautiful.