This is one of a series of image books taken, I think, from the family business archives of a traditional Japanese textile firm. The printed book shows its images in several versions each, recolored or slightly altered; historical reproductions to current mainstream fashion to current youth fashion. Changes are often explained in terms of the digital processing used to make them -- the book has an appendix on how to alter the images yourself, either at a copy-shop or in software. The charm of the whole thing is that it is a long-lived tradition and not dead yet; of course a modern textile artist would consider modern tools. The author is an expert and artist in traditional colors and methods, so one can see how good the new tools have to be to surpass the old ones in anything but ease.
A few images are available free through the Shikosha Design Library, with a reasonable some-commercial-use license; and I think you can buy much higher quality digital images for professional use. (The rights discussion in the book seems even more open than the rights at the download site I've linked to, which may be publisher-specific.)
Find in a Library: Stencil Patterns
So wrote clew in Art.