Indian Textile Patterns (paisley)
Dec 10th, 2009 Posted in Pattern | no comment »
More than 150 Indian Textile Patterns and paisley
Posts Tagged ornaments
A Coloring Book of Ancient Ireland
Nov 29th, 2009 Posted in e-book | no comment »
A child’s history of ancient Irish art, with droll Celtic people and animals amidst ancient mazes and patterns. From 8th – 9th century artifacts & the books of Durrows and Kells.
Ornamental Borders, Scrolls and Cartouches
Nov 22nd, 2009 Posted in e-book | no comment »
Ornamental Borders, Scrolls and Cartouches
in Historic Decorative Styles
by Syracuse Ornamental Company
over 1950 illustrations
~23 Mb. PDF
In 1923 the Syracuse Ornamental Company in New York State advertised its fiber wood carvings, moldings and furniture trimmings to the trade in an elegantly illustrated sales catalog. The Catalog contained thousands of beautiful line drawings of delicately carved floral wreaths and sprays for furniture panels,as well as finely worked trophees, bases, posts, corners and legs.
Now hundreds of these attractive and skillfully drawn illustrations have been reproduced here in sharp black and white – available copyright-free to artists, illustrators and craftspeople. Comprising 124 of the very best plates from the now rare original catalog, the present collection consists of an elaborate selection of styles ranging from Louis XIV, Renaissance and Georgian to Louis XVI, Chippendale and chinoiserie. Included are intiricately rendered borders, scrolls, cartouches and latticework; lavish floral garlands, moldings and many other ornamentals – important graphics in any commercial artist’s resource file.
Artists, designers, woodworkers and other craftspeople will find here a rich variety of much-needed borders, garlands, cartouches and other motifs – all ideals for immediate , practical use
