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It took me some time to find a few treasurable books on the subject, so I thought I should make a list for let's say...Lilfairy, and Adelie of course, and every one interested in beautiful patterns! It's nice to know I'm not the only one to love the amazing, delicate, japanese patterns for papers. I wish I was more of an expert, but here are my favourite books:
For the illustrator and graphist:
2 books with CDroms
❀❀❀❀❀ Agile Rabbit Japanese Patterns book with cdrom. Easy to use in Photoshop layer masks, in black and white with 3 different levels of resolutions. I love this book so much I took it with me to California in my luggage.
ISBN: 9057680203
Publisher: Pepin Press
(March, 2005), Agile Rabbit collection
❀❀❀❀❀The Yuzen Japaneses paper. Very difficult to find, quite expensive, but lovely. You will find 100 color plates, most of them very useful for illustration purposes. Pick this one if you want a collage effect with the real chiyogami colors, or if you want to print some for origami fun.
Book Title: kiyouzomekami za yuuzen jiyapani zu pe pa YUZEN JAPANESE PAPER hiyaku roiyarutei furi jie pegu fuairuzu 100 ROYALTY FREE ... Now you know why it's difficult to find.
ISBN : 486100313X
Publisher : Dai Nippon Printing Company Publisher
The only place I was able to find it is on yesasia website
For the pattern lover
2 books with color illustrations, no cdrom, these are not royalty free
these two books are about chiyogami paper on the Edo period (1603-1867)
❀❀❀❀❀ Edo Chiyogami
A big book , 356 pages of pure delight and colorful plates. I wish I speak Japanese to read the text. A good gift for the pattern lover. A perfect gift for the Chiyogami addict.
ISBN4-89444-399-6
Editor: Piebooks (now I want ALL the books they publish)
❀❀❀❀❀Edo chiyogami chiyogami
A small book with colour plates. A very nice one, but the size of the book doesn't allow access to small details, even if some are sometimes magnified. Though, it's one of my favourite purse books. It's small and very inspirational, the kind of book you can study in the train. The publisher has a whole collection of little books about patterns, unfortunately I wasn't able to decipher the titles.
Author Name: Hirose Tatsugorou
ISBN: 491609462X
Publisher : Seigensha