Learn the three principles of border design: Divide the Side, Use the Unit, and Connect the Corner. Start with instructions for more than 30 borders -- then begin to design your own!

Provides complete instructions for crocheting over three hundred borders and band stitch designs, and includes photographs of stitches with an accompanying diagram illustrating stitch placement within the band or border design.

In the mid-19th century, typefounders plied their trade with an extraordinary exuberance, creating a new and dazzling range of typefaces and ornamentation that in sheer versatility, ornate beauty, and sumptuousness remain unsurpassed. Today, as never before, their work is sought by artists, designers, and craftspeople for its elegance, expressiveness, and ability to command attention. This unique volume contains the work of one of the most celebrated typefounders of that glorious era in type design: Charles Derriey, who, from his Parisian foundry, fed the Victorians' insatiable appetite for decoration and embellishment with a truly fabulous assortment of display types and printers' ornaments. The 113 plates reprinted here from his 1862 typographic catalog include over 2,500 royalty-free type forms and ornamental designs. Here is an incredibly rich source of intricately ornamented typefaces along with an eye-catching array of vignettes (dingbats, headpieces, tailpieces, etc.), rules, flourishes, corner elements, and much more, including a wide selection of Victorian frames and border material. Leaf through it and you will find it to be not only a fascinating presentation of type design, but also an extensive sampler of Victorian ornamentation — a valuable reference book and source of royalty-free graphics, sturdily yet inexpensively produced, that will offer you years of inspiration, enjoyment, and practical use.

A complete guide to good design techniques, this book is perfect for any quilter to practice and build their border skills! With step-by-step instructions and full-color photography, learn over 20 border techniques, from the basket weave and scrappy sawtooth to pinwheels and flying geese. Once you complete each individual border design, three full-size border sampler quilt projects are provided to put it all together! Also included are four fast and easy bonus projects and ready-to-use appliqué templates.

You can paint an amazing variety of borders, ornamentation and embellishments using the simplest of brushstrokes. It's easy once you know how. Jodie Bushman provides step-by-step guidelines for getting started, plus 10 fun, fabulous projects. You'll learn her special process for creating any kind of border, for any size surface -- from decorative boxes to walls and windows. Bushman also details 33 charming borders easy enough to paint in three simple steps. Here's the best part! The Big Book of Decorative Borders also includes more than 500(!) unique border designs. Each one is created with a variety of exciting elements, from leaves and vines to ribbons, shells and more. Use them to embellish your paintings, greeting cards, scrapbooks, tableware or home accessories. Whatever you desire! Borders range from cute to classic, simple to ornate -- you'll even find designs perfect for Christmas themes and children's rooms. Book jacket.

Bold, high-contrast graphics feature a wide range of flower, leaf and vine combinations. 42 full-page and 12 half-page border designs depict tulips, dogwood, English ivy, roses, oak leaves and acorns, carnations, chrysanthemums, pine branches, holly and other floral motifs. Many are suggestive of the changing seasons and of special holidays.