Book of Designs (Inu jirushi Shin Komon chō 戌印 新小紋帳 )
A Japanese pattern book of textile designs from 1680, showing small dyed swatches mounted on paper pages with handwritten sample numbers beside each one. Its pages are a dense catalogue of komon small-pattern cloth, with dark indigo-ground swatches alternating with red-ground ones, useful to a designer studying repeat motifs, scale and tonal contrast in traditional Japanese textile patterning.
