"This Dover edition, first published in 1996, is a selection of 45 plates from Soieries marocaines: les ceintures de Fès, originally published by Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, n.d."--T.p. verso.

Reproduced from a rare French portfolio: 59 exquisite motifs created for the silk sashes worn on holidays by Moroccan women. Mainly stylized florals and foliates in an immense variety of configurations, the designs incorporate Romanesque, Persian, Byzantine, and Far Eastern elements, as well as characteristic Moroccan motifs. Copyright-free.