Flowers in brown on black

Its amazing how well these dull colours work within the flower shapes, creating a sense of life without so much as a single addition of something bright and bold.
The print itself make a good use of small shapes that build up to create natural organic motifs.

Japanease Crests

These are just a few crests form parts of my research on them which I did this year, looking at shape and form and ideas behind them. I scanned them up from an old book in which the editor had compiled some medium sized images of crests. All I can remember was it was a red book, hardback and with no paper cover, but the spine of it had its title and editors name.

Paisley and borders and leaves alongside no2

Another snippet form the fabric piece I scanned up yesterday, this time the pattern is more together and closely placed to each motif and layered. Again using the strict palette of dark dull yellow and cyan/blue. Uses paisley designs in it as well as border designs I have already posted in the previous post.

Paisley and borders and leaves alongside

Found fabrics nearly always have amazing amasses of patterns and motifs, the fabrics that are transluscent are often even more decorative, often used as scarves or dubattas and so will enable the creator to create more elaborative designs all over, as parts may or may not be seen depednign on how and where tied/knotted or wrapped around the hair etc. 

I picked out these patterns form a scrap piece of fabric, they use traditional motifs like paisley designs (which sound British but look Indian - weird) and almost Mosque like border designs.