Shikosha Design Library
FOR CREATIVE GIFTS AND INSPIRATION

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Create Your Own Projects with Classic Asian Designs. From web pages to greeting cards, quilts to tattoos, newsletters to personalized stationary, images from the Shikosha Design Library have more uses than we can count. Click here to download a PDF with useful suggestions for how to use programs like Photoshop to edit, stylize, and personalize these images.

Drawing on the archives of the Shikosha Publishing Company in Kyoto, Japan, books in the Shikosha Design Library feature full-color images from modern kimono designs, traditional Japanese stencil and textile patterns, even traditional Persian rugs. In June 2008, Stone Bridge Press will be making over 300 of these stunning images available for paid download via our website.

For a limited time, we are offering twelve images absolutely free! Click on the images below to download full-size images.

Cherry Blossoms
120 pp, 8 1/2 x 8 1/2”, paper, ISBN 978-1-933330-57-0, $16.95
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cherry_040.jpg,
6.6MB, 7.063x7.16",
300dpi, rgb
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cherry_080.jpg,
4.4MB, 8.88x9.463",
300dpi, rgb
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cherry_085.jpg,
15.6MB, 11.883x9.553",
300dpi, rgb
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cherry_085.jpg,
11MB, 8.353x9.79",
300dpi, rgb

Stencil Patterns
120 pp, 8 1/2 x 8 1/2”, paper, ISBN 978-1-933330-58-7, $16.95
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Stencil087_2.jpg,
2.2MB, 5.263x3.354",
350dpi, rgb
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Stencil091_3.jpg,
2.2 MB, 6.3x4.003",
350dpi, rgb
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Stencil093_2.jpg,
1.3MB, 4.031x2.809",
350dpi, rgb
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Stencil117_3.jpg
1.7MB, 7.783x2.803",
350dpi, rgb

Sarasa Woodblock Patterns
120 pp, 8 1/2 x 8 1/2”, paper, ISBN 978-1-933330-59-4, $16.95
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sarasa_30_1.tif,
7.7MB, 5.177x8.55",
1200 dpi, rgb
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sarasa_51.jpg,
2.5MB, 6.377x10.12",
350dpi, rgb
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sarasa_63_1.jpg,
1.7MB, 5.863x4.331",
350dpi, rgb
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sarasa_83_1.jpg,
1.3MB, 2.274x8.723",
350dpi, rgb


By downloading any of these images, you agree to the following usage restrictions: "Shikosha" images downloaded from this site and during this special promotion may be freely reproduced for personal and non-commercial use. "Shikosha" images may also be freely used in a commercial context--such as on menus and websites and in advertising, book designs, and film--where they serve as secondary or supporting design elements. Use of "Shikosha" images in a commercial context where the "Shikosha" images are the main and defining focal point of the design--such as on scarves offered for sale or as discrete images in a book, poster, postcard, or magazine--is prohibited without written permission from the publisher. In no case may discrete "Shikosha" images be copied and distributed, sublicensed, or sold in any form without the written permission of the publisher. Use of any original or unedited "Shikosha" images shall not be restricted or limited by any derivative usage of the same image. Please inquire for further information.