African Prints: A Design Book
A collection of printed African fabric designs include abstract, floral, pictorial, animal and figural themes.

This pictorial survey is arranged visually with a focus on design, particularly color and pattern. The fabric is contemporary, most made of cotton primarily in Africa commercially, and many designs are printed adaptations of traditional African woven textiles.

The designs can serve as a reference and inspiration to artists and designers of fabric and fashion. There are complex and abstract patterns, florals, pictorials, animal and figural themes.
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African Prints: A Design Book
A collection of printed African fabric designs include abstract, floral, pictorial, animal and figural themes.

This pictorial survey is arranged visually with a focus on design, particularly color and pattern. The fabric is contemporary, most made of cotton primarily in Africa commercially, and many designs are printed adaptations of traditional African woven textiles.

The designs can serve as a reference and inspiration to artists and designers of fabric and fashion. There are complex and abstract patterns, florals, pictorials, animal and figural themes.
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African Prints: A Design Book

African Prints: A Design Book

by Shirley Friedland
African Prints: A Design Book

African Prints: A Design Book

by Shirley Friedland

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Overview

A collection of printed African fabric designs include abstract, floral, pictorial, animal and figural themes.

This pictorial survey is arranged visually with a focus on design, particularly color and pattern. The fabric is contemporary, most made of cotton primarily in Africa commercially, and many designs are printed adaptations of traditional African woven textiles.

The designs can serve as a reference and inspiration to artists and designers of fabric and fashion. There are complex and abstract patterns, florals, pictorials, animal and figural themes.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780764306945
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Publication date: 10/23/1998
Series: Schiffer Book for Woodcarvers Ser.
Pages: 112
Product dimensions: 11.00(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Shirley Friedland studied and excelled in fabric design competition at the Cleveland School of Art and now collects exotic fabrics.
Leslie Piña is a noted scholar and author on twentieth-century decorative arts, having written several other books with Schiffer Publishing.
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