American Folk Art Designs & Motifs for Artists and Craftspeople

American Folk Art Designs & Motifs for Artists and Craftspeople
Title American Folk Art Designs & Motifs for Artists and Craftspeople PDF eBook
Author Joseph D'Addetta
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 98
Release 1984-01-01
Genre Design
ISBN 0486247171

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Today's artists, designers, and craftspeople turn to the charming and distinctive motifs of early American folk art time and time again for design inspiration. This rich collection includes more than 170 authentic designs adapted from objects in museums and private collections — from quilts, embroidery, and appliqué work to watercolor paintings, tinware, and gravestones. Captions provide information on the original objects from which the designs were drawn, the medium used, region of origin, and approximate date.

Traditional Animal Designs and Motifs for Artists and Craftspeople

Traditional Animal Designs and Motifs for Artists and Craftspeople
Title Traditional Animal Designs and Motifs for Artists and Craftspeople PDF eBook
Author Madeleine Orban-Szontagh
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 134
Release 1993-01-01
Genre Design
ISBN 0486274853

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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.

Traditional Floral Designs and Motifs for Artists and Craftspeople

Traditional Floral Designs and Motifs for Artists and Craftspeople
Title Traditional Floral Designs and Motifs for Artists and Craftspeople PDF eBook
Author Madeleine Orban-Szontagh
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 130
Release 2012-09-21
Genre Design
ISBN 048613976X

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Superb treasury of 319 royalty-free designs skillfully rendered from French, English, German, Swiss, and Russian textiles of 18th and 19th centuries. Profusion of flowers, leaves, sprays, branches, fruits, and birds.

Folk Art Designs

Folk Art Designs
Title Folk Art Designs PDF eBook
Author Jane Greenwood
Publisher Search Press
Pages 0
Release 2004
Genre Decoration and ornament
ISBN 9781844480166

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This is a source of ideas for all craftspeople and artists. The designs are copyright-free and can be photocopied, traced, coloured, adapted or used as inspiration for creating one's own designs.

Early American Design Motifs

Early American Design Motifs
Title Early American Design Motifs PDF eBook
Author Suzanne E. Chapman
Publisher
Pages 178
Release 1974
Genre Decoration and ornament
ISBN

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Workers in Early American crafts selected their designs for applique work, ceramics, embroidery, quilting, stenciling, and wood carving from a variety of New World sources. This CD-ROM and book set reproduces 300 of these black-and-white motifs, including floral sprays, garlands, and wreaths, birds and animals, landscapes, and bowls of fruit.

Scandinavian Folk Designs

Scandinavian Folk Designs
Title Scandinavian Folk Designs PDF eBook
Author Lis Bartholm
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 49
Release 1988-01-01
Genre Design
ISBN 0486255786

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With 155 traditional motifs to choose from — all adapted by noted Danish designer Lis Bartholm — today's artists and craftspeople can re-create many of the lovely patterns that ornamented domestic furnishings generations ago.

North American Indian Designs for Artists and Craftspeople

North American Indian Designs for Artists and Craftspeople
Title North American Indian Designs for Artists and Craftspeople PDF eBook
Author Eva Wilson
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 130
Release 1984-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 0486253414

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Over 360 authentic royalty-free designs adapted from Navajo blankets and rugs, painted wooden masks, decorated moccasins, Hopi pottery, Sioux buffalo hides, more. Geometrics, symbolic figures, plant and animal motifs, much more.