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Hundreds of beautifully rendered, copyright-free images painstakingly adapted from a host of design traditions: primitive tribal, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Chinese, Japanese, Persian, Byzantine, French Renaissance and more. Also, decorative motifs derived from metalwork, heraldic ornament, floral vignettes, letters, other elements. Invaluable sourcebook for artists, craftworkers and decorative arts enthusiasts.

Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications (October 20, 1995)
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Masterfully executed designs in reproductions of two rare catalogs: ornamental borders, corners and frames with intricate floral and foliated patterns, architectural ornaments and design elements, religious symbols and figures, animals, mosaics, landscapes, much more. Invaluable to artists and craftspeople working with textiles, wallpaper and other decorative items.

Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications (September 10, 1991)
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This lavish collection of copyright-free engravings by the celebrated 19th-century artist F. Knight—reproduced directly from a rare original edition—contains elaborate wall murals with trompe-l’oeil effects; scenes of hunters, flanked by mythological figures; idealized damsels in rustic settings; and numerous other florid motifs. Designs both floral (leaves, running vines, and blossoms) and animal (realistic and grotesque) appear in a variety of sizes and styles. 700 black-and-white illustrations.

Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications; Dover ed edition (May 26, 1998)
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Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: The pepin press
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The 17th century French artist Jacques Stella (1596-1657) embodied the Baroque sensibility in Italy and France. Engravings of his classical motifs are available in this catalog, including lush florals and foliates, fruit, leaves, birds, shells, acorns, and motels. Now this sturdy, inexpensive edition makes them available to a wide audience for convenient reproduction as well as for study, inspiration, and enjoyment. 187 b&w illustrations on 46 plates.

Paperback: 48 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications (June 1, 1987)
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Choose from a lush array of highly embellished ornaments, including individual decorations, rosettes, and borders. This generous selection of 188 black-and-white engravings features florals and foliates, fruit, birds, shells, and other dazzling images. Reproduced from hard-to-find 17th- and 18th-century sources, these unusual images will enliven any project.

Paperback: 48 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications; Pap/Cdr edition
Language: English

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This book contains stunning images for use as a graphic resource, or inspiration. All the illustrations are stored in high-resolution format on the enclosed free CD-ROM and are ready to use for professional quality printed media and web page design. The visual language of the baroque period is typified by an exuberant use of curves and flourishes, and bright and contrasting colors. The result is an exhilarating ornamental style of great beauty.

Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Pepin Press (March 30, 2006)
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Paperback: 48 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications (September 30, 1991)
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Throughout the history of decoration, floral compositions have been one of the designers' main sources of inspiration. Almost every historical style includes designs based on flowering plants. Today, too, floral patterns are ubiquitous in fashion, advertising and many other forms of decoration. Floral Patterns, a resource book with over 120 color designs - all saved on the enclosed free CD - is reworked, improved and expanded version of one of the most successful volumes in this series.

Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: The pepin press
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Paperback: 128 pages
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The culture of the Muslim world has developed a very specific type of ornamental design, which is grounded in the religious demands of Islam. Also known as Arabesque, the visual language of Islamic design employs a variety of geometric patterns, floral elements and ornate calligraphy, all of which are used to decorate furniture and buildings. The flowing nature and mathematical rigour of the Arabesque evoke a sense of eternity and order, which has proved to be aesthetically pleasing. ISLAMIC PATTERNS FROM EGYPT presents a collection of architectural ornamental designs originating from two of the most important cultural centres in the Islamic world, the mediaeval Egyptian cities of Cairo and Alexandria. Originally used as tiling and basreliefs for mosques, tombs and private houses, these designs constitute masterpieces of Islamic ornamental design that have lost none of their appeal today. In the present edition, the ornaments, borders and interlocking patterns of this historical style are made available for contemporary use.

Hardcover: 128 pages
Publisher: The Pepin Press (Agile Rabbit Editions: Cultural Styles)
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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: H. Blume
Language: Castellano

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Indica cómo aplicar y decorar reproducciones de papeles flamencos. The authors are distinguished scholars, researchers and restorers of antique instruments and furniture. This nicely presented 34-page booklet details the historical considerations and provides practical techniques for applying printed papers to instruments in the Flemish manner. Painted decorations (applied to the papers after they are glued to the instrument) are discussed, and a list of Latin mottoes occuring on Ruckers instruments included

Paperback: 40 pages
Publisher: Mac & Me, 19 Mill Lane, Welwyn, Herts AL6 9EU
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Paperback: 444 pages
Publisher: Editorial Reverté
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Publisher: Tutor S.A. (February 1999)
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Lost Secrets of Flemish Painting, is a work devoted solely to documenting in detail the varnishes, painting mediums and painting methods used by Renaissance and Baroque craftsmen and painters. Now, for the first time in one book, painters and historians will find listed not only clear directions for replicating the visual effects found on XVI and XVII century paintings in oil, but also have at their fingertips the early historical documents which describe the practices used by painters and craftsmen before 1700. Also included in this work is the first complete English translation of the De Mayerne manuscript B.M. Sloane 2052. The notes of the XVIIth century's most renowned authority on the technical aspects of painting and art, Sir Theodore Turquet De Mayerne. Originally written in several languages on 170 manuscript pages, these notes comprise the most complete record on the technical aspects of XVII century painting and craft practices which have come down to us.

Hardcover: 400 pages
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Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Pepin Press; Pap/Cdr edition (August 31, 2006)
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Dura: 168 pages
Publisher: Edition Leipzig
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This authoritive resource is an expanded, corrected and updated translation of the award winning book Le Monde des Teintures Naturelles (published 2003,Belin,Paris). It is aimed at dyers, scientists, designers, artists, weavers, spinners, curators, conservators and restorers, museums, research institutions........ all those who have a professional or personal interest in, or passion for, colour. At a time when more and more plants and animals are threatened with extinction by humanity’s ever-increasing pressure on the land and oceans of the planet, this book sets out to record sources of colorants discovered and used on all the continents from antiquity until the present day. Some 300 plants and 30 animals (marine molluscs and scale insects) are illustrated and discussed by the author, whose passion for natural dyes, with their colours of unequalled richness and subtlety, has taken her across the globe in search of dye sources and dyers.

Hardback: 800 pages
Publisher: Archetype Publications
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Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications; 2nd edition (November 1, 1987)
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Un manual práctico sobre acabados pintados antiguos, con especial aplicación al clavecín. The subjects discussed in this booklet include: historical materials and styles; pigments, oils and varnishes; mixing and matching colors; paint systems and layer structures; polishing with abrasives and also the techniques used in marbling. Although intended as a practical manual, emphasis is laid not only on how to paint, but also on why certain materials or techniques are used. The revision takes account of materials that can be bought today and a chapter has been added on textured finishes to complement the one on marbling.

paperback: 90 pages
Publisher: Mac & Me, 19 Mill Lane, Welwyn, Herts AL6 9EU
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Un manual sobre el arte de dorar al óleo y al agua. The book starts with sections on goldbeating and various types of metal leaf. It continues with a description of the tools used by gilders, and an explanation of how to make and apply gesso. The main part of the book contains detailed instructions for handling loose and transferred leaf as well as the tchniques of both oil gilding, and burnished and mat gilding. The last chapters cover such subjects as lettering, the transfer of designs, the arrangement of bands on harpsichord casas, the use of more than one color of gold, metal powders, schlag and glazes.

Paperback: 74 pages
Publisher: Archetype Publications
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Un manual sobre el arte de dorar al óleo y al agua. The book starts with sections on goldbeating and various types of metal leaf. It continues with a description of the tools used by gilders, and an explanation of how to make and apply gesso. The main part of the book contains detailed instructions for handling loose and transferred leaf as well as the tchniques of both oil gilding, and burnished and mat gilding. The last chapters cover such subjects as lettering, the transfer of designs, the arrangement of bands on harpsichord casas, the use of more than one color of gold, metal powders, schlag and glazes.

paperback: 80 pages
Publisher: Mac & Me Ltd. 19 Mill Lane, Welwyn, Herts AL6 9EU
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This book contains stunning images for use as a graphic resource, or inspiration. All the illustrations are stored in high-resolution format on the enclosed free CD-ROM and are ready to use for professional quality printed media and web page design. The pictures can also be used to produce postcards, or to decorate your letters, flyers, etc. They can be imported directly from the CD into most design, image- manipulation, illustration, word-processing and e-mail programs; no installation is required. For most applications, single images can be used free of charge. Please consult the introduction to this book, or visit our website for conditions. This book is part of a series that covers the decorative styles prevalent in Europe since the beginning of the western calendar. The series focuses on two dimensional designs. With the Renaissance in the 15th & 16th Centuries came a revival of interest in the classical arts of Ancient Greece and Rome. Although the sculpture and architectural ornamentation during the Renaissance tended to be complex, two dimensional patterns were often more subdued.

Paperback: 125 pages
Publisher: The pepin press
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This book contains stunning images for use as a graphic resource, or inspiration. All the illustrations are stored in high-resolution format on the enclosed free CD-ROM and are ready to use for professional quality printed media and web page design. The pictures can also be used to produce postcards, or to decorate your letters, flyers, etc. They can be imported directly from the CD into most design, image- manipulation, illustration, word-processing and e-mail programs; no installation is required. For most applications, single images can be used free of charge. Please consult the introduction to this book, or visit our website for conditions. This book is also part of a series that covers the decorative styles prevalent in Europe since the beginning of the western calendar. The series focuses on two dimensional designs. The Rococo is a predominantly French style of the mid-18th century. In this period the use of exquisite bouquets as an ornamental detail became very popular

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Publisher: Pepin Press; Pap/Cdr edition (December 15, 2005)
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Hardcover: 64 pages
Publisher: Walker & Company (April 1, 2001)
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236 finely engraved ornaments, from the decorative arts of Europe and the Middle East from the Middle Ages to the 18th century. Most incorporate delicately detailed flower and leaf elements in highly formal arrangements. All royalty-free.

Paperback: 80 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications (August 30, 1995)
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Esta obra da una idea completa acerca de las materias primas usadas en la industria de los esmaltes, sobre la preparación de éstos y sus propiedades, renunciando tanto a las lucubraciones teóricas como a los detalles de la pura práctica manual.

Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Editorial Reverté
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This important new book tackles the burgeoning revival of the blacksmith's art. Author Dona Meilach has brought together over 500 works by nearly 200 artist-craftsmen from sixteen countries to illustrate the unprecedented activity in modern ironwork that has led to its blossoming into a serious art form. You'll learn several techniques using hot and cold forming with the results clearly shown. You'll be able to recognize how a fence, railing, grille, table, chair, knife, and other items evolve, and better appreciate their design and workmanship. Each chapter provides background for the type of objects shown-- architectural ironwork, sculpture, furniture, containers and vessels, lighting fixtures and candleholders, fireplace accessories, wind vanes, household and liturgical items, and the incredible knives made of Damascus steel. You'll find ample information for how and where to begin your own study in this extensive resource list of organizations, Internet sources, publications, museums, and educational opportunities. The Contemporary Blacksmith** undoubtedly should be found in the libraries of every metalworker, art educator, architect, interior designer, ironwares collector, and crafts person.

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Largest collection of decorated artifacts, all in line; prehistoric, Egyptian, Islamic, Baroque, Victorian, other areas, times. 3,700 illustrations.

Paperback: 647 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications (June 1, 1959)
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The heyday of detaching and transferring wallpaintings is over, a result of shifting values in conservation and the development of solutions for in situ treatment. Transfers were carried out in the past for a number of reasons some of which may seem frivolous or unethical today. The frequency with which transferring was resorted to reflects the prevailing attitudes and limited treatment methods at that time.

The transfer of a wall painting is a difficult and risky operation that affects both the material characteristics and the incorporeal qualities of the painting. Numerous examples of the negative effects of this procedure have accumulated in many countries over the centuries and today, we are left with a vast collection of misplaced, often homeless, paintings, many of which are in dire need of treatment.

This volume presents a detailed study of the transferred wall paintings in Denmark. However, the material and case studies presented contain information of interest to all conservators and others working with wall paintings. While setting the historical development and theoretical aspects in context, the author also addresses in detail the various techniques and materials used in the course of the operations. In addition, the consequences of this drastic treatment are presented and illustrated by examples of damage.

Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Archetype Publications
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Hardcover: 206 pages
Publisher: The pepin press
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This book contains stunning images for use as a graphic resource, or inspiration. All the illustrations are stored in high-resolution format on the enclosed free CD-ROM and are ready to use for professional quality printed media and web page design. The pictures can also be used to produce postcards, or to decorate your letters, flyers, etc. They can be imported directly from the CD into most design, image- manipulation, illustration, word-processing and e-mail programs; no installation is required. For most applications, single images can be used free of charge. Please consult the introduction to this book, or visit our website for conditions. The art of faience tile making had found its way from Arabic North Africa from where it had slowly progressed northward via Spain, Italy (mainly the city of Faenza, hence the French "faience") and Antwerp to arrive about 1570 in the northern Dutch province of Friesland. The Royal Tichelaar Makkum from which the designs in this book originate is the oldest enterprise in the Netherlands and indeed ranks it among the oldest companies in the world. Many of the designs this factory has been using over the years have been compiled in an ancient volume kept in the historical collection of their archives, along with many examples of actual antique tiles. For the first time a selection of these has now been made available for publication in this book.

Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: The pepin press
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This book contains stunning images for use as a graphic resource, or inspiration. All the illustrations are stored in high-resolution format on the enclosed free CD-ROM and are ready to use for professional quality printed media and web page design. The pictures can also be used to produce postcards, or to decorate your letters, flyers, etc. They can be imported directly from the CD into most design, image- manipulation, illustration, word-processing and e-mail programs; no installation is required. For most applications, single images can be used free of charge. Please consult the introduction to this book, or visit our website for conditions.

Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: The pepin press
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