Chinese Textiles

Following the success of the first eight titles in the V&A Pattern series, this beautiful series continues to reveal the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Available separately - as well as in a collectors' slipcase edition - this season's titles are Chinese Textiles (published October 2010), and Spitalfields Silks, Pop Patterns, and Walter Crane (published in 2011). Chinese Textiles moves through the centuries highlighting the motifs of luxurious courtly robes, floral silks intended for the export market, and even the tongue-in-cheek patterns of Vivienne Tam.