Traditional Chinese Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive)

It was just what I expected. It is a thin booklet (8 1/2 x 11) with a lot of chinese patterns in it. I wanted to scrapbook my pictures from our trips to China. The booklet is entirely done in black and white. I suppose it depends on what you want to use it for, but I am very happy with it.

I like the pictures. I kind of wish there were more animal pictures and the pictures were bigger but I can always blow them up on my computer.

good picture

Love these design books. They are perfect inspiration for art projects. They shipped super fast. And the price was right.

it was a present for someone who likes chinese culture but she want to do more. So this book show her the culture and she makes little things now.

Designs were to confusing.

Can't recommend you purchase this book. The printing is significantly less than optimal--to say the least. Any graphic with any detail is very poorly reproduced in this book. The simple graphics are ok but when you get to anything with any detail the printing is so poor you can't see what the pattern really is.

5 Stars!

Love this book it is very nice and the image are gorgeous!

この本に掲載されている、「いかにもチャイニーズ」というテイストの図案はどれも古臭いです。特に生き物の絵柄は、ちょっと現代では厳しい感じです。逆に「これいいな〜」と感じた図案は、あまりチャイニーズっぽくありません。デザイン集としては秀逸だと思います。

This book would have been okay when it was first published but there are many better books out there now. The images are not as clear as I would have hoped given I have quite a few books by Dover that I am happy with. There are also books with similar images of better quality and include CDs so you can print them out to the size you are most interested in.

Good reference book

近代チャイニーズ作風ではなかった。完全に、古典版の作品集だと思う。まぁ、作品集の中にも良い作品も散在しているので。買うんじゃなかった・・と言う、後悔はないかも。古典版がお好きな方なら、価格的にも、まぁ満足できるのでは・・？？。