- Paperback: 48 pages
- Publisher: Dover Publications (April 1 1987)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0486253473
- ISBN-13: 978-0486253473
- Product Dimensions: 28.7 x 21.1 x 0.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 136 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #630,575 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Over 200 royalty-free motifs: dragons, peonies, plum blossoms, tigers, clouds, geometrics, other favorites.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
good for the quick and dirty,
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This review is from: Traditional Chinese Designs (Paperback)
a good basic mongage of Chinese designs, but they are pretty limited, and mostly standard. they seem almost 'clip art'. my advice would be to study Chinese art history, learn the motifs and themes, and the way they presented things, and then create your own. but for the quick and dirty approach, this book isn't bad.
4.0 out of 5 stars
a good window to understand Chinese culture,
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This review is from: Traditional Chinese Designs (Paperback)
Desing is always good coponent in certain culture. this book provide you wonderful materials to get to know thedesign which just belong to CHina.
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3.8 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews) 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
pretty but impractical,
By Jane in Milwaukee "Avid stitcher" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Traditional Chinese Designs (Paperback)
Please see the images above: I thought it would be useful for you to get an idea what the designs look like. As with the majority of Dover books, the low cost makes it haphazard how valuable you'll find a given book. As part of the Design Library, these motifs are authentic and well-researched...and they're fun to look at...except what do you do with them? As the back cover says: "These patterns can be used as is, rearranged, combined, enlarged or reduced." Okay...but these are just line drawings with no color suggestions. I suggest if you want to see similar patterns, look up Traditional Chinese Designs Iron-on Transfer Patterns (Dover Iron-On Transfer Patterns) by Barbara Christopher in the Dover Needlework Series. Similar designs but the color plates make all the difference in the world.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
good for the quick and dirty,
By Andrew Raczkowski - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Traditional Chinese Designs (Paperback)
a good basic mongage of Chinese designs, but they are pretty limited, and mostly standard. they seem almost 'clip art'. my advice would be to study Chinese art history, learn the motifs and themes, and the way they presented things, and then create your own. but for the quick and dirty approach, this book isn't bad.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Chinese patterns,
By P. Hill "lunatic9" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Traditional Chinese Designs (Paperback)
It was just what I expected. It is a thin booklet (8 1/2 x 11) with a lot of chinese patterns in it. I wanted to scrapbook my pictures from our trips to China. The booklet is entirely done in black and white. I suppose it depends on what you want to use it for, but I am very happy with it.
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