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Paisleys and Other Textile Designs from India
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Over 500 splendid motifs, adapted from elegant brocades, include colorful block prints and woven designs inspired by nature — trees, leaves, flowers, buds, animals, and birds. This volume constitutes a superb, comprehensive sourcebook for artists, art historians, textile designers, needleworkers, fabric painters, and other craft enthusiasts.
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Paisleys and Other Textile Designs from India - K. Prakash
INDIA
PAISLEYS
AND OTHER
TEXTILE DESIGNS
FROM INDIA
K. Prakash
DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.
New York
Copyright
Copyright © 1994 by K. Prakash. All rights reserved.
All rights reserved.
, Sind Chambers, Shahid Bhagat Singh Road, Colaba, Bombay, 400 005, India.
Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published in 1994, is an unabridged republication of the second edition of Impressions: A Classic Collection of Textile Designs, published in 1992 by K. Prakash, Bombay, India.
DOVER Pietorial Archive SERIES
This book belongs to the Dover Pictorial Archive Series. You may use the designs and illustrations for graphics and crafts applications, free and without special permission, provided that you
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