http://www.eurojapanlinks.com/
Thank you, I did get a book out of my library there are quite a few all have the basic patterns in them.The link above may help, its in the UK, though. The material they sell is very expensive, but the cotton thread is good value, its quite thick and they sell the proper needles but I searched my needlecase and found suitable ones, they are long with quite a big eye to take the thick thread. I used white carbon paper, as the teacher had used the blue and yellow and it showed on the white thread, it may wash out but she was reluctant to try, I make things to use she had made them to show. I found that after tracing them using the carbon paper you had to go over the design with a , in my case, white pencil a few times while sewing as the design tend to fade with your hand brushing against the cloth as you sew. Heavy navy blue cotton material is what I used along with some fairly open weaved plaids.
K