Large Japanese book of French textile samples with title Façon Moderne published by a Japanese textile firm in 1926. The book is 45,5 x 32,5 cm. and comprises two pages of introduction, seventy-nine textile samples with fine patterns in the Art Deco and Modernist style mounted on twenty-six pages. Closing note (in Japanese) by Mukai Kenzaburo (1890-1959) a pioneer in design education and design theorization in Japan. For a selection of Japanese pattern books and collections of textiles fragments please visit our website www.morra-japaneseart.com