Wildflower Designs and Motifs for Artists and Craftspeople


Book Description

Clear, accurate illustrations of 163 common North American wildflowers — tiger lily and water lily, snowdrop, ox-eye daisy, thistle, and wild strawberry among them. The flowers are depicted in full-page and half-page sizes in many different configurations: as individual blossoms, in borders, corners, clusters, wreaths, and garlands. Some are shown in frames.




Traditional Floral Designs and Motifs for Artists and Craftspeople


Book Description

Superb treasury of 319 royalty-free designs skillfully rendered from French, English, German, Swiss, and Russian textiles of 18th and 19th centuries. Profusion of flowers, leaves, sprays, branches, fruits, and birds.




Floral Designs and Motifs for Artists, Needleworkers and Craftspeople


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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.




Treasury of Flower Designs for Artists, Embroiderers and Craftsmen


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A hundred garden favorites rendered in black-and-white line illustrations will suggest numerous design and artistic uses. Amaryllis, anemone, begonia, cinquefoil, peony, snapdragon flow and weave, many forming borders and frames.




400 Floral Motifs for Designers, Needleworkers and Craftspeople


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Treasury of rare Victorian-era designs for borders, wreaths, cushion squares, sprays, and other projects. Patterns for verbena, strawberry, lily, many more.




Big Book of Bird Illustrations


Book Description

An indispensable resource for anyone in need of avian art, this magnificent compendium comprises more than 600 royalty-free images. Featuring the work of many different artists, it abounds in accurate renderings of ducks and geese, herons, owls, eagles, woodpeckers, hummingbirds, and many other birds, both familiar and less well known, from the world over.




Treasury of Floral Designs and Initials for Artists and Craftspeople


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Practical archive of over 700 wonderfully graceful and imaginative designs featuring flowers, leaves, and vines in delicate interlacements.




Oriental Floral Designs and Motifs for Artists, Needleworkers, and Craftspeople


Book Description

Over 90 royalty-free black-and-white illustrations offer graphic excellence of Oriental art. Peonies, wisteria, lotus, cherry and plum trees in full bloom, bamboo, birds, insects, decorative border elements, more. 94 black-and-white illustrations. Publisher's Note.




The Art Nouveau Style Book of Alphonse Mucha


Book Description

Rare design portfolio by high priest of Art Nouveau. Jewelry, wallpaper, stained glass, furniture; figure studies; plant and animal motifs, much more. All 72 stunning plates from Documents Décoratifs in original color.




Manufractured


Book Description

This work provides a model for creativity and a way of showing how innovation, invention, and beauty can emerge from even the most familiar, ordinary, and banal-seeming products. A wide variety of projects are presented in this book with insightful commentary on the trends and cultural phenomenon that inform the process.