Kimono Design - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kimono Design write by Keiko Nitanai. This book was released on 2017-05-16. Kimono Design available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kimono Design: An Introduction to Textiles and Patterns uses hundreds of photographs and a wealth of information on colors, fabrics and embellishments to paint a portrait of Japanese culture, art and thought. Lavish classical patterns, sweeping scenes, and the many motifs that have been woven, dyed, painted or embroidered into these textiles reveal a reflectiveness, a sense of humor, and an appreciation of exquisite beauty that is uniquely Japanese. Organized according to motifs traditionally associated with each season of the year, Kimono Design interprets the kimono's special language as expressed in depictions of: Flowers and grasses Birds and other animals Symbols of power, luck and prestige Land-and-seascapes scenes from literature, history and daily life scenes of travel and the Japanese concept of other lands and many others… Extensive notes on all the motifs demonstrate how the kimono reflects changing times and a sense of the timeless. Information on jewelry, hairpins and other accessories is scattered throughout to give a fuller sense of the Japanese art of dress. This is a volume that Japanophiles, historians, artists and designers will all cherish.
Japanese Kimono Designs Coloring Book
Japanese Kimono Designs Coloring Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japanese Kimono Designs Coloring Book write by Ming-Ju Sun. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Japanese Kimono Designs Coloring Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Japanese kimonos are wearable art. Celebrating the patterns and motifs adorning the traditional costumes, 30 ready-to-color illustrations present kimono-clad figures awash in pastoral scenes and wandering abstracts.
Japanese Kimono Designs
Japanese Kimono Designs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japanese Kimono Designs write by Diane Victoria Horn. This book was released on 1991. Japanese Kimono Designs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The kimono is an acceptance of tradition which ties the wearer to more than nine centuries of Japanese culture, history and protocol. The enormous variations of kimono designs were the creative products of Japanese artists, originating in the imagination and experience of the wealth classes. Traditional designs are an integral part of the Japanese character, and though the kimono is no longer the basic dress, it still has an artistic and sociological significance to the Japanese people today.
Kimono
Kimono - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kimono write by Terry Satsuki Milhaupt. This book was released on 2014-05-15. Kimono available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is the kimono? Everyday garment? Art object? Symbol of Japan? As this book shows, the kimono has served all of these roles, its meaning changing across time and with the perspective of the wearer or viewer. Kimono: A Modern History begins by exposing the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century foundations of the modern kimono fashion industry. It explores the crossover between ‘art’ and ‘fashion’ in this period at the hands of famous Japanese painters who worked with clothing pattern books and painted directly onto garments. With Japan’s exposure to Western fashion in the nineteenth century, and Westerners’ exposure to Japanese modes of dress and design, the kimono took on new associations and came to symbolize an exotic culture and an alluring female form. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the kimono industry was sustained through government support. The line between fashion and art became blurred as kimonos produced by famous designers were collected for their beauty and displayed in museums, rather than being worn as clothing. Today, the kimono has once again taken on new dimensions, as the Internet and social media proliferate images of the kimono as a versatile garment to be integrated into a range of individual styles. Kimono: A Modern History, the inspiration for a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York,not only tells the story of a distinctive garment’s ever-changing functions and image, but provides a novel perspective on Japan’s modernization and encounter with the West.
Making Kimono and Japanese Clothes
Making Kimono and Japanese Clothes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Kimono and Japanese Clothes write by Jenni Dobson. This book was released on 2018-10-26. Making Kimono and Japanese Clothes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A practical and inspirational book for dressmakers, quilters and embroiderers who have long coveted the style of Japanese clothes, in particular the kimono. Expert dressmaker and quilter Jenni Dobson takes you through the techniques for making Japanese clothes with simple step-by-step processes, but goes further, covering details on Japanese design and the various techniques for embellishing Japanese clothes. Colourfully illustrated with images of finished garments as well as practical diagrams and patterns for dressmaking, the author has deliberately made all the garments accessible even for those with limited experience of dressmaking, but there are plenty of ideas to inspire those more accomplished readers.
