BATSFORD 4000 Flower & Plant Motifs   This immense sourcebook of 4000 flower and plant motifs is the perfect reference for artists, designers, craftspeople and embroiderers. The author's lifetime in design has enabled him to create a unique compilation of stunning motifs from a range of styles and historical periods. All the images are presented so that ...
	BATSFORD Pattern Motifs: A Sourcebook   This comprehensive book include patterns from not only Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Celts, Islam, India, Africa, and Aboriginal lands but also the worlds of western folk, Gothic, Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau and Art Deco. The types of pattern provided include interlaced, basketweave, network patterns, web-like patterns, plaited, twisted, ...
	DESIGN ORIGINALS Mini Ephemera Clip Art & CD   This book contains over 400 nostalgic images including game pieces, label art, bottle caps, and ticket stubs. The images are perfect for all paper crafts and altered art. Use them for collage, journals, newsletters, home decor projects, mini-books, and cards! Author: Beth Cote Format: paperback, 18 pgs., 8 1/2 in. x ...
	DOVER 1,001 Advertising Cuts from the Twenties and Thirties   Created by illustrators over a half century ago, these distinctive, well-designed graphics display all the necessary components of any successful spot illustration: they're compelling, informative, attractive, and provide a simple, direct message. Painstakingly culled from magazines, newspapers, books and catalogs of the 1920s and 30s, the cuts are ideal ...
	DOVER 100 Japanese Stencil Designs   The natural Japanese affinity for decorative art is apparent in this striking collection of exquisite stencil designs, reproduced from a rare 19th-century publication. Motifs depict – among other subjects – lush florals, bamboo branches, birds on the wing, and rustic country homes. Captions identify the patterns. Book specifications: paperback, 96 ...
	DOVER 150 Full-Color Art Nouveau Patterns and Designs   The novelty of Art Nouveau derived in part from its innovative approach to the very concept of art. More than just a style, it eliminated the barriers between fine and applied arts and embodied a new way of thinking about modern society and production methods. This multipurpose treasury features luxuriant ...
	DOVER 1500 Chinese Design Motifs   These crisp, black-and-white images will lend a distinctive Far Eastern accent to any project. Geometrics, abstracts, and other intriguing configurations adapt easily for use as spot illustrations and other applications. Professional and amateur artists, illustrators, and designers will find this inexpensive treasury a priceless source of royalty-free inspiration. Author: Pan ...
	DOVER 177 Art Deco Designs: CD-ROM and Book   Universally admired, Parisian artist Edouard Benedictus flavored his designs with Art Nouveau touches and an adventurous abstractionism. Reproduced directly from three of his highly prized and rare portfolios, these luminous images blend squares, rectangles, and other geometric forms with soft flowing curve. The book includes a CD-ROM containing 177 royalty-free ...
	DOVER 200 Victorian Fretwork Designs   This vintage sourcebook, reproduced from a rare edition, provides designers and craftworkers with 31 plates of graceful interlaced designs. Authentic patterns include scrollwork, finials, banisters, interlaced vines, floral carvings, and many other elegant fretwork designs. They're perfect for lending a quaint touch to countless print and craft projects. Author: A. ...
	DOVER 293 Art Nouveau Designs and Ornaments: CD-ROM and Book   This dazzling collection of royalty-free images, representing the finest in Art Nouveau design, includes 227 engaging black-and-white images of elaborate panels, borders and vignettes, plus 66 elegant color illustrations of flowers, shells, exotic animals, and other outstanding motifs. The book is a practical, inexpensive source of immediately usable design ...
	DOVER 361 Full-Color Allover Patterns   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 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 ...
	DOVER 414 Geometric Designs and Motifs: CD-ROM and Book   This book contains over 400 original, attention-getting graphics that pop, recede, and shimmer. Circles, squares, ellipses, curves, lines, and angles create unique visual effects that are at times strong and intriguing and sometimes purely dazzling. Great for use in ornamental packaging, room decoration, and graphics, the illustrations can be ...
	DOVER 423 Art Nouveau Designs and Motifs: CD-ROM and Book   Striking reproductions from a rare French portfolio of plants, animals, birds, insects, florals, abstracts, women, landscape, and other subjects — all depicted in the sensuous, curvilinear Art Nouveau style. The designs are shown in a wide array of usable formats: borders, repeating patterns, mortised cuts, corners, frames, and other ...
	DOVER 440 Ornamental Designs   A rich, diverse source of royalty-free designs, this collection includes a wealth of floral and foliated elements, scrollwork, cartouches, grotesques, cherubs, and mythical figures. These 440 unique black-and-white flourishes will enliven any project. The book includes a CD-ROM containing 440 royalty-free images scanned at 600 dpi and saved in six ...
	DOVER 476 Decorative Designs   These 476 selections from a rare original sourcebook depict decorative images of ornamental ironwork and blazonry, florals, and human and mythical figures. This is a highly useful collection of beautifully rendered, copyright-free images that will be welcomed by artists, illustrators, craftworkers, and countless enthusiasts of the decorative arts. This book ...
	DOVER 5000 Designs and Motifs from India   This rich collection of copyright-free designs and motifs provides today's artists and designers with a stimulating and practical archive of usable material. In this volume are designs adapted from dolls and toys from the Harappa culture, coins and pottery from South India, Ajanta and Bagh murals, Muslim monuments, Buddhist ...
	DOVER 660 Typographic Ornaments: CD-ROM and Book   These eye-catching ornaments and designs, selected from rare, turn-of-the-century printers’ catalogs, depict a rich treasury of subjects – from ornate frames, scrollwork, and headpieces to banners, wreaths, and a vast array of charming figurative illustrations. The book includes a CD-ROM containing 664 high-quality, permission-free designs scanned at 600 dpi and ...
	DOVER American Folk Art Designs: CD-ROM and Book   This national treasury of graceful, royalty-free motifs – originally created between 1710 and 1910 – offers ready-to-use graphics of flowers, fruits, border designs, geometrics, Revolutionary War soldiers, animals, birds, and more. The 172 distinctive, black-and-white, folk art designs have been crisply rendered from objects in museums and private collections. This ...
	DOVER Ancient Egyptian Designs and Motifs: CD-ROM and Book   Meticulously adapted from authentic murals, pottery, jewelry, and other sources, this rich display of royalty-free designs provides an authentic view of gods and pharaohs, priests and ordinary folk, plants, animals, and other elements of ancient Egyptian life. It’s an invaluable collection for artists, craftworkers, and students of Egyptian art ...
	DOVER Ancient Mexican Designs   Aztec calendars, gods of medicine and war, animals, mythological characters, and scores of other striking images from the pre-Columbian world are at your fingertips in this treasury of copyright-free art. Comprising a vibrant compilation of 240 meticulously reproduced designs from ancient Mexico, this volume abounds in the distinctive portrayals ...
	DOVER Arabic Designs: CD-ROM and Book   This unrivaled collection of exquisite images, adapted from authentic sources, documents the elegance of centuries-old Arabic designs, with florals from ancient Persian fabrics, geometric figures from Iranian tiles, details of a Luristan talisman (1000 b.c), and much more. Sure to be prized by graphic artists and designers for its variety ...
	DOVER Art Deco Decorative Patterns in Full Color   This collection of sensuous, bold, and exotic motifs, reprinted from a rare 1910 portfolio, contains a wealth of arresting Art Deco wallpaper patterns. The 160 striking, royalty-free designs – a must-have collection for designers and craftworkers – depict a breathtaking array of florals, geometrics, and abstract designs, all stunning ...
	DOVER Art Deco Designs CD-ROM and Book   Rich archive of crisply rendered line drawings used in textiles, fashions, jewelry, and domestic accessories of the 1920s and 30s, selected from works by Erté, Edgar Brandt, Jeanne Paquin, and Paul Manship, among others. Ideal for use in numerous craft and graphic designs projects, these distinctive designs will add ...
	DOVER Art Deco Wood Designs: CD-ROM and Book   Re-create the bold, streamlined designs of Art Deco with this collection of dynamic, decorative motifs! Included are boldly styled geometrics, dynamic designs, abstract figures, and starkly elemental versions of blossoms, masks, creatures of the animal kingdom, and other wood carvings. The book includes a CD-Rom containing 158 royalty-free images saved ...
	DOVER Art Nouveau Floral Designs: CD-ROM and Book   Over 200 classic Art Nouveau floral motifs, rendered in a sensuous, curvilinear style, will infuse a touch of elegance into fabrics, stained glass, wallpaper, and other art and craft projects. Created by leading artists of the early 20th century, these lovely designs include a variety of blossoming beauties – ...
	DOVER Art Nouveau Illustrations   From the pages of The Studio, the legendary London monthly come these 171 splendid examples of book covers, posters, advertisements, bookplates, menus, greeting cards, decorative alphabets, and more. The illustrations by Walter Crane, Aubrey Beardsley, Will Bradley, and other leading artists of the Art Nouveau period are perfect for ...
	DOVER Arts and Crafts Designs CD-ROM and Book   \Striking collection of designs, rendered from textile and wallpaper motifs, vases, and other authentic sources, includes images of lovely florals once etched into glassware and pitchers, garlands of flowers in square and circular configurations, wildlife that adorned decorative bowls and platters, and much more. A convenient source of superb ...
	DOVER Bizarre & Ornamental Alphabets   Here is an exquisite collection of useable, unusual, copyright-free lettering for today's graphic artists and designers that presents a full range of unique and evocative lettering dating from an 11th century Anglo-Celtic alphabet right up to the present. This new and highly useable material - much of it available ...
	DOVER Calligraphic Ornaments   Add a note of elegance to countless graphic arts or craft projects with this expertly rendered collection of calligraphic ornaments. Hundreds of ready-to-use motifs, including borders, frames and spots, add a delicate note to almost any graphic project - advertisements, menus, announcements, newsletters, posters, scrolls, certificates and much more. ...
	DOVER Celtic and Norse Designs: CD-ROM and Book   Rescued from ancient sources, these exceptionally bold motifs include an amazing array of birds, human figures, and mythological creatures, all ingeniously woven into intricate networks of spirals and interlacings. The book contains 207 illustrations, 48 of them in color, meticulously adapted from artwork that once graced ancient rune stones, furniture, ...
	DOVER Celtic Borders and Backgrounds: CD-ROM and Book   These beautifully interlaced Celtic designs – all expertly adapted from authentic sources – offer graphic artists many different types of motifs in a variety of sizes and shapes. The beautiful weaves and bold designs are inspired by artwork from rare pieces of jewelry, illuminated books, and other historic artifacts. This ...
	DOVER Celtic Stencil Designs: CD-ROM and Book   Stirring images of traditional Celtic art, transformed into a collection of exciting, versatile stencil designs, depict birds and beasts of myth and scripture, elegant abstract designs, and more. Available in a variety of sizes, shapes and complexities, these attractive and dramatic illustrations are ideal for graphic artists, textile designers, ...
	DOVER Classic Full-Color Illuminated Borders: CD-ROM and Book   116 lovely examples of illuminated borders and letters display exotic plants, animals, and mythical creatures in brilliant colors. Selected from rare nineteenth-century publications, these dazzling treasures of chromolithographic art these images will add a nostalgic touch to graphic assignments as well as a host of art and craft projects. This ...
	DOVER Classic Type Faces and How To Use Them   While there are many typography books on the market, few of them can boast all the features of this exceptionally useful workbook. It includes 75 widely used type faces shown in complete fonts, with companion lower cases, as well as these valuable features: an additional 16 type faces--traditional and ...
	DOVER Cupids, Angels and Fantastic Creatures: A Treasury of Rococo Designs   This affordable treasury of fanciful ornament and design includes more than 100 illustrations of Rococo art. Mythological figures, angels, and cherubs in traditional poses abound, as do real and fanciful beasts and other images from nature. An excellent source of royalty-free illustrations for artists and designers, this ornate compilation of ...
	DOVER Decorative Tile Designs: CD-ROM and Book   There are more than 200 strikingly elegant tile designs included in this collection, spanning the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and later European and Islamic cultures. The dazzling assortment of ornamental motifs displays florals, human figures, and abstract designs in a variety of rich colors. The book includes a CD-ROM containing 296 ...
	DOVER Fantastic Ornament: 110 Designs & Motifs   Swirling with gargoyles, devils, dragons, griffins, and other images that haunt both dreams and nightmares, this otherworldly assortment features more than 100 decorations from a rare 19th century volume. These versatile royalty-free illustrations are equally suitable for immediate use, adaptation, and inspiration. Author: Michel Liénard Format: paperback, 64 pgs., 8 3/8 in. ...
	DOVER Flower, Fruit and Vegetable Seed Packet: CD-ROM and Book   Over 200 authentic illustrations – meticulously reproduced from vintage seed packets – will tempt garden lovers and nostalgia enthusiasts with their bright colors. From the brilliant hues of carnations, pansies, hollyhocks, and poppies to the luscious colors of melons, tomatoes, and other garden vegetables, these vivid images will lend ...
	DOVER French Decorative Designs   This striking, full-color collection of 171 Gallic glories – borders, florals, panels, pilasters, cornices, and other architectural and ornamental flourishes – offers a remarkable variety of styles: Byzantine, Roman, Gothic, Renaissance, and more. Author: P. Planat Format: paperback, 64 pgs., 8 3/8 in. x 11 in. Publisher: Dover, 2006
	DOVER French Decorative Designs of the 18th Century: CD-ROM and Book   The delicate forms of 18th-century French decorative design lend craft and graphic projects a special air of grace and refinement. The highly detailed borders, cartouches, and other configurations in this superb collection – enhanced with real and legendary beasts, scrolling curves, floral motifs, and more – convey a timeless ...
	DOVER French Provincial Designs: CD-ROM and Book   This rich archive contains a host of simple, decorative motifs: quaint, small-scaled florals, sea creatures, birds, barnyard animals, Far Eastern figures, and pastoral scenes, among them. Adapted from 17th- through 19th-century textiles, furniture, domestic accessories, and more, these charming images will delight graphic artists, hobbyists, designers, and devotees of ...
	DOVER Full Color Japanese Textile Designs: CD-ROM and Book   Nearly 200 serene, stylized images display the Japanese knack for artfully turning design elements into subtle and classically beautiful patterns. Abstracts, florals, insects, geometrics, and other images--in single and repeat patterns--are resplendently reproduced in full color from the finest Japanese textiles. A useful reference in fashion schools and libraries, ...
	DOVER Full-Color Egyptian Ornament: CD-ROM and Book   The beauty and exotic appeal of ancient Egyptian art is revealed in male and female figures, hieroglyphics, florals, geometric motifs, and more – all meticulously rendered from authentic sources. Ideal for a host of practical uses and design inspiration, the collection will be valued by students of Egyptian art ...
	DOVER Geometric Allover Patterns   This intriguing volume offers a fascinating collection of 45 striking lattice designs drawn by a computer and based on mathematical analysis of age-old geometrical compositions. Use these crisp black and white illustrations alone or in any combination to create your own eye-catching compositions or color them in vivid hues ...
	DOVER Gothic Ornament & Design   This huge collection of authentic medieval designs and motifs was magnificently reproduced from a rare 19th-century volume. It features Gothic columns, cornices, gargoyles, stained glass designs, ornate stonework, and other architectural and decorative elements. This spectacular compendium contains 216 plates for art and craft use. Author: V. Statz and G. ...
	DOVER Gothic Ornament: Architectural Motifs from York Cathedral   These royalty-free motifs feature exquisite specimens of the sculptured ornaments from