Traditional Japanese Stencil Designs

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TRADITIONAL JAPANESE
STENCIL DESIGNS
Edited by Clarence Hornung
The demand by artists and craftspeople for visually exciting designs has created
renewed interest in traditional Japanese motifs which are ideal for modern
decorative and graphic needs.
This comprehensive archive presents 276 exquisite Japanese stencil designs,
inspired by natural themes and developed to ideographic perfection through the
centuries. Sky, sea and land, birds, beasts, insects and countless flora and fauna
comprise the rich Japanese design vocabulary.
Versatile motifs include clouds, sun, stars, waves, birds, butterflies, dragonflies,
fish (goldfish, shellfish, angelfish), and delicate floral and foliate patterns —
chrysanthemum, plum and cherry blossoms, bamboo, ivy, wistaria, oak and
maple leaves and much more. You'll also find abstract and geometric designs —
circles, squares, diamonds, polygons, stripes, band and lattice motifs —as well as
fans, wheels, umbrellas and other man-made... Tovább

Fülszöveg

TRADITIONAL JAPANESE
STENCIL DESIGNS
Edited by Clarence Hornung
The demand by artists and craftspeople for visually exciting designs has created
renewed interest in traditional Japanese motifs which are ideal for modern
decorative and graphic needs.
This comprehensive archive presents 276 exquisite Japanese stencil designs,
inspired by natural themes and developed to ideographic perfection through the
centuries. Sky, sea and land, birds, beasts, insects and countless flora and fauna
comprise the rich Japanese design vocabulary.
Versatile motifs include clouds, sun, stars, waves, birds, butterflies, dragonflies,
fish (goldfish, shellfish, angelfish), and delicate floral and foliate patterns —
chrysanthemum, plum and cherry blossoms, bamboo, ivy, wistaria, oak and
maple leaves and much more. You'll also find abstract and geometric designs —
circles, squares, diamonds, polygons, stripes, band and lattice motifs —as well as
fans, wheels, umbrellas and other man-made objects.
Clearly printed, these copyright-free illustrations are ready to be reproduced as
designs for fabric, wallpaper and textiles, calendars, menus, invitations,
woodblock prints, batik, needlecrafts on any project that would benefit from
the serene and simple beauty of authentic Japanese art.
Today's artists and craft enthusiasts who admire the elegant draftsmanship of
Japanese art will find Traditional Japanese Stencil Designs a rich source of
decorative ideas and a practical, inexpensive addition to any library.
Original Dover (1985) publication. 276 black-and-white illustrations on 119
plates. Introduction by Clarence Hornung. 128pp. 9 x 12. Paperbound.
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A DOVER EDITION DESIGNED FOR YEARS OF USE!
We have made every effort to make this the best book possible. Our paper is
opaque, with minimal show-through; it will not discolor or become brittle with age.
Pages are bound in signatures, in the method traditionally used for the best books,
and will not drop out. Books open flat for easy reference. The binding will not crack
or split. This is a permanent book. Vissza