BOOKS - japanese

regular readers may recall i bought these petit pattern books in november whilst on holiday in the USA. i bought them at kinokuniya in san francisco (theres another branch in new york for east coasters) and lots of people emailed asking if they knew where they could get hold them. unfortunately i didnt know of anywhere else, but all i can suggest is that you take the ISBN number to your favourite book store and see if it can be ordered. or if you are outside the UK then maybe you can email kinokuniya books. i know its annoying to see books you cant easily get hold of but i just wanted to share one more with you, another of my japantown purchases at kinokuniya. i thought it woud be nice to see the patterns anyway.

this book is a 'garaga pattern card' and features a series of card pages which the publisher suggests can be turned into cards or framed as prints. garaga seem to be bag designers. have a click around their website to see more patterns. kinokuniya in san fran only had one book, but there are others here if only we could get hold of them.
the backs of the pages have the exact same design on as the front but in outline only.
if you want to attempt to track down these books here are the details :

dots & stripes, ISBN-86100-384-9

leaves and flowers ISBN-86100-385-7

garaga pattern card ISBN 4-86152-053-3