The Pattern Sourcebook: A Century of Surface Design (Mini) Paperback – May 5, 2015

Gorgeous!

Great book! Received it as a gift. Loved it so much, I bought it for a good friend.

Love this book, great inspiration, color and designs.

A comprehensive and fascinating collection of designs. Interestingly catalogued by colour not by date.

Lots of pattern ideas for designers. Nice reference book.

The book is nicely produced; the print quality, very good. Most of the patterns are textiles and wallpaper, but not all. The are some ceramics, and a few other things, too. Some of the choices are, to mind mind, poor - such as close-ups of draped or gathered fabric. I want to see it laid flat so the whole print shows. The big disappointment was the cd. Each print has a big copyright symbol on it. (That's the misleading part.) So what's the good of it? Still, the book is useful, and I appreciated that they gave the name of the particular designer when known.

This was a gift and she loved it.

If you're looking for an intelligent book on pattern design, this isn't it. The author had the idiotic idea of organizing patterns by color, with the result that the patterns on adjacent pages have nothing to do with each other (except their color). Browsing this book is a disorienting experience. I don't recommend this book to anyone.