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This lavish collection of royalty-free engravings by the celebrated 19th-century artist F. Knight - reproduced directly from a rare original edition - contains elaborate wall murals with trompe-l'oeil effects; scenes of hunters, flanked by mythological figures; idealized damsels in rustic settings; and numerous other florid motifs.
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Splendid sourcebook of 135 accurate black-and-white illustrations of tropical flowers, including such spectacular specimens as the African tulip, rainbow shower tree, safari sunset, glory bush, Madagascar periwinkle, crown of thorns, flametip, passion flower, and much more. Ideal for a host of design and craft uses.
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Forty beautiful designs by one of Victorian era's most influential designers. Modestly priced, royalty-free collection of richly detailed patterns, faithfully reproduced from rare 1890s publication. Superb designs for wallpapers, chintzes, velveteens, tapestries, tiles, carpets, more.
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Outstanding collection of 400 motifs of rich Persian tradition, ready to use in many areas of design. The motifs include floral designs, geometrics, arabesques, mythical creatures, rosettes, paisley patterns, palmettes, medallions, border and marginal decorations, scrolls, curves, and hunting scenes.
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One of the great anthologies of historic ornament and design. A veritable treasure chest of royalty-free images, arranged chronologically: Roman architecture and sculpture, Byzantine embroidery, and illuminated manuscripts; Italian glass painting, pottery, and French tapestries from the Renaissance; mosaic floors, painted plasterwork, and metal ornaments. Over 1,500 color and black-and-white illustrations.
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This collection of 72 full-page black-and-white Art Deco designs offers artists and craftspeople royalty-free, ready-to-use borders, frames, and motifs. Abstract geometric forms contrast with foliate and floral elements in dynamic designs. Useful in graphic arts, textile and upholstery design and more.
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This excellent volume presents a dazzling assortment of copyright-free, full-color allover patterns. Carefully selected for their eye-catching appeal and suitability for practical use, the 361 patterns in this volume offer artists, designers, and craftspeople an extensive and convenient archive of colorful patterns for use in a virtually unlimited number of projects. Ranging from 15th- through 20th-century sources, the collection encompasses a rich...
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The last and one of the most important of the great chromolithographic collections of the Victorian era, this magnificent volume first appeared in 1892. Spans a wide spectrum of ornamental styles: Greek moldings and pilaster designs; medieval roof ornamentation, "masonry" patterns; Renaissance coffer and panel ornamentation; Japanese fret bands; and more.
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A familiar decorative detail that's found both inside and outside of Victorian homes, fretwork delights the eye with its graceful interlaced designs. This vintage sourcebook, reproduced from a rare edition, provides today's graphic designers and craftworkers with intricate plates of authentic patterns, including scrollwork, finials, banisters, interlaced vines, foral carvings and many other elegant fretwork designs. They're perfect for lending a quaint...
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60 rare plates of pictorial borders - all with space for text or a message - depict floral garlands, cupids, scrollwork, as well as finely rendered scenes of salon parties, amorous couples, ardent suitors, lovely maidens, and other eye-catching vignettes. Superb royalty-free illustrations for artists, graphic designers, decoupeurs, and other craftworkers.
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Drawn from a rare French volume, this gallery of delicate multicolor stenciling in the Art Nouveau style features the use of pochoir, a unique method that was popular in Paris during the early part of the twentieth century. Distinctive for its clear, sharp lines, vibrant colors, and textured surfaces, pochoir stenciling was used in fashion journals, interiors, architecture, and industrial design-and offers a host of applications in those areas today....
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Magnificently embellished letters of the alphabet - approximately 40 to a page plus one page of roman and arabic numbers - primarily taken from Jones's illustrated The Psalms of David. Meticulously crafted Victorian designs range from small to large, simple to spectacular.
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Classic sourcebook of spectacular royalty-free design collages, featuring over 1,500 decorative elements and motifs from major cultures in history through the 19th century, from Asia and Africa to Europe and the Americas. Adapted from jewelry, illuminated manuscripts, weapons, tiles, carved wood panels, ceilings, inlay, hardware, ceramics and more.
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Over 1,700 charming silhouettes from a number of rare sources provide craftworkers, designers and commercial artists with a broad range of subjects: animals displayed in a variety of poses, children playing and reading, couples embracing, men and women working, the human profile and figure, and much more.
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Among the glories of extant medieval manuscripts are the splendid illuminated initials in which geometric, curvilinear, animal, religious and other motifs intertwine to form extraordinarily beautiful and decorative letters. For this striking volume, Carol Belanger Grafton has selected 548 illuminated letters-alphabetically arranged-from 19th-century reprints of medieval manuscripts. Here are magnificently ornamented initials-some the length of an...
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