Aug 13, 2009
Kobunroku
Categories: Magazine
Written By: Jaap Proost
THE Japanese must have one word for meticulous and craft. They really have a culture of making fine goods. The object on this page is a Japanese Kobunroku, an official document from the Meiji period (1868 -1885). The box is from 1873 and contains wood samples from the northern island Hokkaido. The first image is from the inside of the folder, the second one is the cover.
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August 18th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
[...] digital archives of the New York Library I found these samples of Madras fabric. Samples books are cool. For your information, Madras fabric takes its name from the Indian city of Chennai, in colonial [...]