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Vignettes...
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Full color Angel Vignettes: Selected and Arranged by Carol
Belanger Grafton
This artist and designer has gathered over 300 images from rare sources to capture the beauty and grace of turn-of-the-century angels. Some serene, some playfull, depicted
in a variety of poses, surrounded by floral displays, playing musical instruments, tending sheep, dancing around a Christmas tree. Ideal for image transfer projects. Full colour, paper back, 9¼ X 12¼.
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$14.50
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Design Library...
Thousands of illustrations, designs and motifs
in many popular styles and from many periods and cultures for copyright free use by artists and craftspeople.
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Art Forms in the Plant World - Karl Blossfeldt
120 Full-Page Photographs
His subject matter - the leaves, buds, stems,
seed pods, tendrils and twigs of plant life - sparkles with simplicity and clarity. Direct lighting to define form, sharp focus to reveal detail and texture, enlarging up to 27 times actual size results
in magnificent photographs. 120 pages, black and white photos, paper back 8½ X 11".
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$13.95
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Big Book of Plant & Flower Illustrations
by Maggie Kate
Over 600 illustrations, 128 pages, black & white line drawings, paper back, 9 X 12". Showcasing the work of 11 artists, the book displays a profusion of wildflowers, trees, herbs, cacti,
tropical blooms, garden flowers, common weeds, house plants, mushrooms, roses, orchids, medicinal plants and much more. Each illustration is identified and an index makes it easy to find specific plants.
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$18.95
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Decorative Plant and Flower Studies for Artists and Craftsmen
by J. Foord
88 drawings of 40 plants and flowers - Daffodil, Apple, Azelea, Evening Primrose, Yellow Iris, Narcissus, Oleander, Jacob's Ladder, Clematis, Foxglove, Thistle, Tulip Tree and many
more. 142 pages, black & white line drawings, paper back 8½ X 11".
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$15.95
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How To Draw Knights, Kings, Queens & Dragons
by Christopher Hart
All kinds of medieval characters - magical wizards including Merlin, fair maidens, noble and silly kings and queens, fearsome and
humorous dragons and gallant knights. 64 pages, 170 illustrations, 90 in full color, paperback, 8½ X 11".
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$15.95
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Indian Designs from Ancient Ecuador
by Fedrick Shaffer
282 designs, 95 pages, black & white illustration, paper back, 8½ X 11¾". An excellent source of border design. The pre-Columbian Indians of ancient Ecuador produced some of the imaginative
and powerful art and design. This highly original and decorative art includes a wide range of unusual motifs such as people, mammals, reptiles, birds, fish and water life, plants and abstracts.
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$14.95
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Maya Designs
by William Turner
40
pages, black & white line drawings, paper back, 8½ X 11". The ancient Maya civilization flourished for many centuries, from before the birth of Christ until the Spanish Conquest. Each design is
rendered from authentic pieces in museums, private collections and at original sites in Guatemala and Mexico. there is also a brief introduction to Maya design, and captions for each plate with
identification of gods, legends and other information.
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$10.95
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Mucha's Floral Borders: 30 Full-Color Art Nouveau Designs
by Alphonse Maria Mucha
Magnificent, elaborate floral borders are arranged in
sinuous curves and harmoniously tinted in subdued, luminous shades of pink, yellow, green, aqua, brown and orange. Lush poppies, irises, orchids, morning glories, passion flowers and other blossoms
mingle with foliate patterns and stylized vines. Printed on high quality glossy stock. 32 pages, paper back, 8½ X 11¼". (there is a small ink mark on the front of this book)
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$13.95
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Northwest Coast Indian Designs
by M. Orban-Szontagh
46 pages, 273 black & white illustrations identified by tribe, paper back, 8 X 11". Designs produced by the Indians of the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and the western coast of Canada: Nootka,
Kwakiutl, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian and other groups. Designs include stylized plants, birds and animals, abstract borders and repeating patterns, totemic images and symbols and a host of other
decorative elements.
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$10.95
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Original Art Deco Designs
by William Rowe
72 plates, 72 pages, black & white illustration, paper back, 8½ X 11¼". Art
Deco originally flourished in the 20s and 30s. Designs include numerous borders and frames, corner pieces, title page designs, sets of integers and seven complete alphabets as well translations of
everyday life such as the toothpaste tube, the ice cream cone, the wash basin, the water fountain and other parts of everyday life.
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$14.95
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Plants and Flowers: 1,761 Illustrations for Artists and Designers
by Bessette & Chapman
289 pages, paper back, black and white illustration, botanically accurate, with common and botanical Latin names, 9 X 12". The plants and flowers are
grouped by kind, uses and habitats into 17 categories, among them aquatic plants, orchids, ornamental plants, plants of commerce, mushrooms, ferns, mosses, trees, shrubs, weeds, wildflowers and vines.
All names have been compiled into two convenient indexes.
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$24.50
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Roses & Other Flower Designs
by lindsay Butterfield
Over 120 designs, 44 pages, black & white illustration, paper back 8¼ X 11". Illustrations depict mostly roses and carnations, but also fruit and almond blossoms, in an enormous
variety of styles. Spanning 500 years of decorative design, the finely detailed motifs were adapted from pottery, tiles, brocades, carpets, lacquered wood, embroidery, tapestries and other art objects.
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$10.95
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Southwestern Indian Designs
by M. Orban-Szontagh
250 black & white illustrations, 46 pages, paper back, 8¼ X 11". These designs have been taken from Hopi ceremonial dress, Zuni shields and Anasazi pottery; Navajo jewelry, rugs and sand
paintings; designs of birds from ancient Pueblo pottery and many other sources. All are clearly drawn in detail, easily reproducible.
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$10.95
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Victorian Patterns & Designs in Full Color
by Audsley & Audsley
100 full color plates, 112 pages, paper back, 9¼ X 12¼". The designs are primarily flat ornament ideal for painters, decorators and designers. These plates are reproduced from "The Practical
Decorator and Ornamentist" produced in the Victorian era. Patterns and motifs span a wide spectrum of styles: panel decorations, fabric designs, panel ornamentation, rosettes and diaper patterns,
Japanese fret bands or crests, conventional floral ornaments and much more.
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$14.95
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