Designer's Guide to French Patterns

Excerpt from inside cover: "Designer's Guide to French Patterns is an invaluable source of ideas for anybody looking for inspiration in designing and decorating ceramics, textiles, furniture, or working in the graphic arts. Both easy to use as a reference and enjoyable for it's beautiful illustrations, this book is a concise but thorough guide to France's venerable history of design patterns. Filled with 125 illustrations from religious, royal, and popular sources and organized into five sections, each focusing on the development of a new style, this volume traces the evolution of French patterns from richly illuminated medieval manuscripts to contemporary textiles and wallpaper."