Product Description

Over 500 splendid motifs, adapted from elegant brocades, colorful block prints and woven designs, and inspired by the Indians’ spiritual affinity with nature (trees, leaves, flowers, buds, animals and birds). A superb, comprehensive sourcebook for artists, art historians, textile designers, needleworkers, fabric painters and other craft enthusiasts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #237264 in Books
• Published on: 1994-04-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Customer Reviews

There is more to paisleys then I thought!
I am so glad I got this book and I am sure I will use it often. I think it will be very inspirational in things that I want to make with an "all over" pattern or for use in making borders. From looking at the paisleys in the book I can see where paisleys come from and I never really thought of that before.The paisleys may seem the same to some people but I do like seeing so many different ways to do the same thing. I have been happy with most of the Dover books that I have...I think they do a good job!

Good selection - very similar
The paisley patterns are well chosen, but I was hoping to see some other interesting textile patterns as well - most of the other patterns included were very boring and not as representative of the broad spectrum of textile patterns found in Indian fabrics...

good but incompleate
the book has many ideas for design but should've had also ideas for colors and more aplications.