Book blurb: 

British Museum Pattern Books reproduce in line drawings the rich variety of patterns
and designs which decorate art and artefacts in the British Museum and elsewhere.
Designers, craftsmen, artists and needleworkers, teachers and students will find them
endlessly useful

African Designs The great diversity of artistic styles from all parts of the continent
are dramatically illustrated in one hundred pages of illustrations, taken from pottery,
metalwork, leather, basketwork and textiles. The introduction gives a brief history of
African art from the earliest rock paintings to the most recent twentieth-century designs.

Rebecca Jewell works at the Commonwealth Institute, London and is a freelance
illustrator.