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Exhibition: Exquisite Patterns: Japanese Textile Design

Location

British Library,

96 Euston Road, London,
NW1 2DB

Dates

This exhibition CLOSED on Sun, 17th May 2020

This exhibition has finished.

Cost: Free of Charge

Description

Practical designs produced by kimono merchants to lavish commercial publications: this display highlights the creativity and skill of artist, designer and publisher through a selection of superb images reproduced from the British Library’s collection of Japanese pattern books.

Image: ‘Daffodils’ from Patterns of plants and flowers from life by Furuya Korin. Published in 1907 (BL shelfmark ORB.30/132).


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Location

British Library,

96 Euston Road, London,
NW1 2DB

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