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1890249781New York 1890. Approximately 34 items on various stock including George D. Thompson letterhead. Various sizes generally 7 x 3 1-2 in to 11 x 8 1/2 in. Some toning some designs show signs of previous mounting on verso generally very good. Approximately 34 items on various stock including George D. Thompson letterhead. Various sizes generally 7 x 3 1-2 in to 11 x 8 1/2 in. Watercolor designs in Classical Romantic and Chinoise styles for leather screens manufactured by George D. Thompson & Co. The company letterhead advertises "Hand tooled and painted chair leathers and wall panels . Period designs still life flower bird & fruit panels hand painted bellows trays humidors book covers." Some designs give dimensions and prices on verso. unknown
181956897Kyoto Japan: Marubeni Shoten Design Dept. Keimeikai Textile & Dyeing Studio Tanioka Shoten Design Dept. ca. 1918-1945. Folio. 61 original hand-painted inked and pencil designs with a few on a lightly toned but quality semi-translucent paper the majority on thick paper stock and still others with two pieces carefully pasted together with contiguous designs sized from 9 x 15 in. up to 19.25 x 38.5 in. with 13 of the pieces larger the larger size a number of them sized 18 x 32 in. and many in the 14.25 x 15.5 in. size colour painted; the majority feature the design studio chop or crest at lower corners throughout many w/ annotations in margins several w/ change orders neatly annotated or even the title of the design and still many others w/ Roman numeric inventory codes in margins as well two still retaining original small silk samples many with creasing or minor tears & edgewear or creasing to fore-edges a few w/ small & large closed tears while others show some creasing and thumbing from continued use still an exceptional group of manuscripts. This superb archive of 61 original hand-painted kimono designs furnishes an exceptional visual array of Taisho- and early Showa-era Japanese motifs and styles. A number of the designs evoke traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock prints with deep vivid colours and well rendered illustrations. Many of these designs incorporate floral patterns including Kiku Chrysanthemum Botan Mon Peony Pattern Manju Kiku Marigolds Japanese Irises Morning Glory Cockscomb Ivy Dahlias and many other botanical motifs. In addition there are many illustrating ornately embroidered designs austere bamboo mushrooms and intriguing landscapes some with a small portion fully painted in with brilliant colouring while the outline of the kimono fills out the drawing. Two of the designs still features their original small attached silk kimono sample more reminiscent of Western Design houses which often attached their chosen fabric samples to their clothing designs. A few of the designs are executed on translucent thin paper for the kimono draper to transfer the design to white silk or other fabrics via some type of carbon paper process. Another of the designs has been executed on a stunning silver metallic paper with palm or bamboo leaf fronds executed in vivid blues & browns. Some feature a nearly surrealist quality while several others include illustrations of doves or chickens. Two of the designs incorporate Art Deco representations of Chinese Junks and Japanese sailing vessels typical of the 1930’s prior to World War II. In the Taisho Era a new era opened for textile designers working with Kyoto drapers and department stores with many having trained at new art colleges and then working in the design studios of Marubeni Keimeikai Textile & Dyeing Studio and others. The Tachiki Artist design studio designs on thin translucent paper include one with designer stamp of character embedded within a skull. Some appear to have two different date stamps for the Marubeni Shoten Design and some are unsigned or stamped. The Taisho- and Showa-era kimonos featured brighter colours more groundbreaking designs as Japan’s designers embraced traditional dress and transformed it into a new garment equally appealing to the “Moga†or brazen “Modern Girl.†The designer notes include instructions to “leave a little more space between the fans;†“Drop the little fan crest;†“too much white bush clover†on the pine cones and even that Matsuo Taishichi had ordered a design for “clothes for paying a visit for a young person.†The Marubeni Shoten originated with Chubei Itho who began in 1858 as a salesman for linen cloth and by 1872 had opened his drapery store Benchu in Senba Osaka. By 1918 Chubei Itoh had expanded the business into Osaka and deciced to merge with Itochu Shoten Ltd. becoming Marubeni Shoten with their own drapers shops and many contracts with department stores. Later by the mid-1950s Marubeni merged with the company that operated the Takashimaya Dept. Store Chain all the while preserving their design studio and artists. See: Yuko Fukatsu-Fukuoka The Evolution of Yuzen-dyeing Techniques and Designs After the Meiji Restoration 2004; Arisa Shinko Tomikawa Hand Painted Kyo Yuzen Atelier “Arisa†A Brief Introduction 2020; Annie Van Asche Japanese Kimono Fashion of the Early Twentieth Century Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings 2000; Our History Our Roots Marubeni Corporation 2020. Marubeni Shoten Design Dept., Keimeikai Textile & Dyeing Studio, Tanioka Shoten Design Dept., hardcover
1815832561815. DESIGN Matsuoka Tokikata; Honma Hyakuri. SHOKUMON ZUE. 7 vols. privately published by Hyakuri apparently from 1815-25 as a completion of work begun by Tokikata in the late 18th very early 19th century. 19.3 x 26.9 cm string-bound Japanese-style fukuro toji with printed paper title labels - all bindings match. Hundreds of beautiful color textile designs reproduced in color woodcut. Nobleman Ladies Ceremonial dress Brocades Imperial costumes all are covered. Important and quite scarce as few sets were produced. Some worming otherwise the overall condition is very good. unknown
1820181123Likely Norwich: c.1820s. An eye-catching and infectious spectacle A prepossessing collection of textile swatches for clothing or furnishing likely produced in Norwich for selling to the German market. Using the whole spectrum of colours the designs incorporate stripes geometric shapes diaper patterns zigzags and chevrons floral and foliate motifs and ikat designs. The samples are arranged by pattern under titles in German and at times French and Italian. These include for example Weisbodige Croisé white strips and colour chevron-pattern stripes Rothbodige Köper thick red stripes alternating with those of other colours and Cuttni multicolour swatches with fine diaper or lozenge patterning. The samples are woven from wool a factor - together with their design - that points to their origin in Norfolk. "The presentation of choice in the books of samples from Norwich is literally fascinating with some pages so stunning and dazzling in their effect and we might argue that it could be the effect of the whole page that seduces the buyer rather than the individual sample. The almost infinite variations of colour and pattern accentuated in their intensity in the context of a book or card create an eye-catching and infectious spectacle" Mitchell. Accompanying these books are two other unrelated sets of several dozen samples both dating from later in the 19th century and at least one from France. Provenance: Cora Ginsburg 1910-2002 the expert in fine textiles purchased by her in England in 1962 - Stephen C. Massey. 2 vols tall octavo 260 x 150 mm. With 1063 unique samples of varying sizes mounted on rectos of 125 leaves printed in ornamental blue 2 folding at fore edge manuscript titles and numbers direct to leaves or on labels. Contemporary blue paper wrappers manuscript number or label on inner front covers. Housed in 19th-century calf pull-off box green lining and gilt decoration. Within custom blue cloth box with red label by James Brockman. Samples fine and bright wrappers creased pull-off box worn: a well-preserved collection. Victoria Mitchell "A Marketplace in Miniature: Norwich Pattern Books as Cultural Agency." hardcover