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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Clear, accurate illustrations of 163 common North American wildflowers — tiger lily and water lily, snowdrop, ox-eye daisy, thistle, and wild strawberry among them. The flowers are depicted in full-page and half-page sizes in many different configurations: as individual blossoms, in borders, corners, clusters, wreaths, and garlands. Some are shown in frames.

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.