Susan Briscoe's Japanese Design Sources

Susan Briscoe, my main source of help for things sashiko-based (her books are wonderful) has written a very useful post on Japanese Design Sources which can be found here

http://susanbriscoe.blogspot.com/2010/01/japanese-design-sources-for-theming.html

There's a lot of information about using kamon and about using festivals as a starting point and a lovely warning about getting kanji correct.