Sale 2497 - Fine Illustrated Books & Graphics, January 29, 2019

81 c   ( JAPANESE FABRIC SAMPLES / FUROSHIKI.) Aikoko-go. 33 full-page color plates and a fabric sample sheet with 12 swatches of silk and cotton; one leaf of eight variants of kanji fonts. Oblong small folio, publisher’s silver- and gold-stamped decorative boards with metal clasps, light blistering, else quite clean. Tokyo: Gunki-jirishi Furoshiki Hatsubaimot, late 1930s-early 40s   [300/400] A nice Furoshiki (Japanese square wrapping cloth) sample book of patriotic patterns and techniques from basic to more colorful and complicated Yuzen dying and shima stripes. 81 82 82 c   ( JAPANESE FABRIC DESIGN.) Yamazaki, Akira. Nippon Hand Weaves in “Kusakizome” Dyes. Text in English and Japanese. Woodblock illustration of a hand loom, by Unichi Hiratuka, 26 natural plant-dyed fabric samples with full descriptions, and numerous small woodcut illustrations of plant dye sources, by Seiji Yamazaki. 4to, publisher’s binding of gilt- lettered Mansuji pattern cotton cloth; folding box of silver-lettered indigo Muji- patterned cotton cloth. number 186 of 200 copies . (Kanagawa), 1959   [400/600]