Alexandra reviewed Decorative Floral Designs for Needleworkers and Craftspeople (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) on + 111 more book reviews
This useful book offers a treasury of exceptionaly fine designs, mostly florals, reprinted from a rare French portfolio - and all copright-free.
Originally prepared for a turn of the centry book of leatherwork projects, approximately 150 illustrations comprise a rich assortment of Art Nouveau-flavored design. Choose from corners, backgrounds, borders and frames, natural scenes, mirror images and other decorative compositions - even a selection of monograms.
These high quality designs lend themselves to a variety of craft and needlework applications: needlepoint, leatherwork, pyrography, or for a line art in graphic projects. Moreover, many of the versatile motifs include blank spaces for advertising or other messages. Artists, needleworks, designers and craftspeople will find this volume an indispensable compendium of ready to use graphics for almost any purpose.
Large size paperback (9 x 12).
Originally prepared for a turn of the centry book of leatherwork projects, approximately 150 illustrations comprise a rich assortment of Art Nouveau-flavored design. Choose from corners, backgrounds, borders and frames, natural scenes, mirror images and other decorative compositions - even a selection of monograms.
These high quality designs lend themselves to a variety of craft and needlework applications: needlepoint, leatherwork, pyrography, or for a line art in graphic projects. Moreover, many of the versatile motifs include blank spaces for advertising or other messages. Artists, needleworks, designers and craftspeople will find this volume an indispensable compendium of ready to use graphics for almost any purpose.
Large size paperback (9 x 12).
