Author : Dover Publications, Inc
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 32,16 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0486999408
Intriguing archive of 96 black-and-white designs features the sinuous interlacements, stylized mythical creatures, abstracts, geometrics, and other elements that give Celtic art its unique distinction. Clear, crisp, professionally drawn motifs will lend themselves to a host of art and craft purposes. Included disc contains all designs in book.
Author : Amy L. Lusebrink
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 18,89 MB
Release : 2006-12-15
Category : Design
ISBN : 0486997928
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. 221 illustrations, 48 of them in color, meticulously adapted from artwork that once graced ancient rune stones, furniture, sword hilts, and other artifacts.
Author : Judy Balchin
Publisher : Search PressLtd
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,46 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781844484171
Gives step-by-step instructions to the modern crafters seeking to create the ornate swirling motifs typical of Christian iconography and Insular art.
Author : Co Spinhoven
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 19,28 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 0486996786
Exciting, versatile images depict birds and beasts of myth and scripture, elegant abstract designs, and more. Available in varied sizes, shapes, and complexities. 164 black-and-white illustrations.
Author : Madeleine Orban-Szontagh
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 28,16 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 0486274853
Over 1,000 royalty-free illustrations of animals, birds, insects and creatures both real and fanciful as depicted in dozens of design traditions from Ancient Egyptian to Early American. Chinese dragons, Indian elephants, Egyptian scarab beetles, and hundreds more, arranged by category and identified by captions. Indispensable source of ready-to-use animal art for artists, illustrators, craftspeople, more.
Author : Eva Wilson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 18,98 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 048625819X
Beautifully rendered from book illustrations, pottery, metalwork, carvings, and other sources, these 280 black-and-white designs include geometrics, florals, and animal and human figures in circular, hexagonal, rectangular, and other shapes.
Author : Marie-Louise Sjoestedt
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0486115887
Noted French scholar and linguist discusses gods of the continental Celts, beginnings of mythology in Ireland, Irish mother-goddesses and chieftain-gods, and heroes.
Author : Hayward Cirker
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 28,47 MB
Release : 2012-05-11
Category : Design
ISBN : 0486142477
More than 2,500 designs, originally published between 1830 and 1881, offer a splendid source of royalty-free ornaments. Includes two-, three-, and four-letter combos, plus crowns, crests, and coats of arms.
Author : Ajit Mookerjee
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 29,91 MB
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 0486319997
Incredibly rich treasury of authentic royalty-free designs adapted from artifacts of the Harappa culture, coins and pottery from South India, Ajanta and Bagh murals, Muslim monuments, Buddhist temples, textiles from Gujarat, Punjab, other regions, masks and tribal arts, much more. Immediately usable material or great resource for design inspiration. Introduction. Notes.
Author : Azade Akar
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 0486272117
Plant and animal motifs, chain patterns, geometrical and symbolic motifs, architectural forms, stylized suns and moons, rosettes and borders, calligraphic lettering and Turkish adaptations of rococo — all derived from authentic sources — are among the many types of design illustrated in clear, easily reproducible images. 264 black-and-white illustrations:
