1001 Floral Motifs and Ornaments for Artists and Craftspeople

1001 Floral Motifs and Ornaments for Artists and Craftspeople
Author: Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2013-12-31
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0486140717

This comprehensive treasury of copyright-free floral designs ― chosen from rare periodicals and illustrated books ― offers graphic artists and craftworkers a variety of floral favorites in ornamental styles that range from 18th-century classical to Victorian and Art Nouveau. Selections include reproductions from such 19th- and 20th-century periodicals as The Studio, L'Art pour tous, and Formenschatz, as well as a wide range of materials from American, English, French, German, and Spanish typography catalogs. Ideal for embellishing almost any artistic or craft project, the motifs include such favorites as roses, tulips, irises, lilies, and violets. Use these eye-catching motifs to decorate menus, invitations, stationery, book covers, and advertisements, or create needlework patterns as well as designs for textiles and woodworking. Artists, designers, illustrators, and craftspeople will find this rich selection of exquisite designs a valuable addition to their resource libraries ― one they will turn to again and again for inspiration as well as ready-to-use floral creations.

Floral Designs and Motifs for Artists, Needleworkers and Craftspeople

Floral Designs and Motifs for Artists, Needleworkers and Craftspeople
Author: Charlene Tarbox
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2012-09-11
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0486138453

Versatile collection of 136 floral designs for royalty-free use. Ready-to-use illustrations include the Aztec lily, African violet, holly, dogwood, magnolia, evening primrose, wild calla, and many other flowers and plants.

5000 Decorative Monograms for Artists and Craftspeople

5000 Decorative Monograms for Artists and Craftspeople
Author: J. O'Kane
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2012-08-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486155870

Voluminous, diversified collection of ornamental two-, three-, and four-letter combinations — all in a rich variety of styles, many incorporating crowns, coronets, and ancient and modern alphabets. 130 black-and-white plates.

Treasury of Decorative Floral Designs

Treasury of Decorative Floral Designs
Author: Dover
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2012-05-24
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0486154017

DIVRich harvest of blossoms, vines, and other floral decorations has an unlimited variety of applications, allowing images to serve equally well as individual motifs or as running borders. Approximately 325 designs. /div

Costume and Ornament of the Middle Ages in Full Color

Costume and Ornament of the Middle Ages in Full Color
Author: Henry Shaw
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012-07-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486141861

More than a pictorial archive of medieval dress and decoration, this beautiful collection is also valuable for its discerning scholarship. A magnificent compilation of artwork from Henry Shaw's detailed study of court life in the Middle Ages, this splendid book provides a grand display of medieval figures and fashions of the times. Reproduced directly from Shaw's original, hand-colored plates and identified by brief captions, more than 200 superb illustrations depict knights in battle, ladies in waiting, kings, queens, popes, and commoners, as well as armor and weapons, jewelry, and other decorative accessories. Skillfully adapted from rare paintings, illuminated manuscripts, tapestries, textiles, and stained glass windows, these lovely illustrations will be invaluable to fashion historians and costume designers. Craftworkers will find them equally useful.

Traditional Floral Designs and Motifs for Artists and Craftspeople

Traditional Floral Designs and Motifs for Artists and Craftspeople
Author: Madeleine Orban-Szontagh
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 130
Release: 1989-09-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0486261069

Re-create a lovely spray of wild roses that once bloomed in abundance on an early nineteenth-century fabric. Duplicate a lush Persian floral print from a kerchief worn in the waning days of the acien régime. These and dozens of other superb royalty-free designs — adapted from patterns on antique textiles — are available now to artists and craftspeople in this attractive collection. A noted artist and surface designer has masterfully rendered nearly 230 designs from French, English, German, Swiss, and Russian textiles of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Featured are profusions of flowers, leaves, sprays, branches, fruits, and birds in a wide variety of formats: clusters, bouquets, single vignettes, and more. Also shown are several full-page motifs with a single large, elaborate flower. Captions supply a brief description, date, and place of origin for the designs on each page. Among the many charming samples are floral and butterfly blockprints from Alsace in France (c. 1790), a Kashmir floral motif from England (1805), an English rose bouquet (1834), berries and flowers from Switzerland (1820), and scores of others.

Flowers, Butterflies and Insects

Flowers, Butterflies and Insects
Author: Maria Sibylla Merian
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9780486266367

Fine-line images of roses, butterflies, tulips, caterpillars, and other specimens of plant and insect life in elegant full-page compositions. These plates are considered among the finest achievements of a great age of floral painting and the engraver's art. Reprinted from the classic, influential works of the famed artist/entomologist Merian (1647–1717). New English captions.

Food and Drink

Food and Drink
Author: Jim Harter
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2012-12-03
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0486137651

Over 350 illustrations of different foods, people eating, utensils, banquets, menus, wine lists. Beautifully reproduced 19th-century line drawings depict every conceivable activity concerned with the preparation, display, and consumption of food and drink.

Rustic and Rough-hewn Alphabets

Rustic and Rough-hewn Alphabets
Author: Dan X. Solo
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 108
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9780486267166

Eye-catching typefaces with casual or "country" air. Annie Oakley, Hedge Row, Stuntman, Ticonderoga Bold, many more. Complete uppercase alphabets, many with lowercase, numerals and punctuation.