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    Traditional Floral Designs and Motifs for Artists and Craftspeople
    Traditional Floral Designs and Motifs for Artists and Craftspeople
    Traditional Floral Designs and Motifs for Artists and Craftspeople
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    Traditional Floral Designs and Motifs for Artists and Craftspeople

    By Madeleine Orban-Szontagh

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    Re-create a lovely spray of wild roses that once bloomed in abundance on an early nineteenth-century fabric. Duplicate a lush Persian floral print from a kerchief worn in the waning days of the acien régime. These and dozens of other superb royalty-free designs — adapted from patterns on antique textiles — are available now to artists and craftspeople in this attractive collection.
    A noted artist and surface designer has masterfully rendered nearly 230 designs from French, English, German, Swiss, and Russian textiles of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Featured are profusions of flowers, leaves, sprays, branches, fruits, and birds in a wide variety of formats: clusters, bouquets, single vignettes, and more. Also shown are several full-page motifs with a single large, elaborate flower. Captions supply a brief description, date, and place of origin for the designs on each page.
    Among the many charming samples are floral and butterfly blockprints from Alsace in France (c. 1790), a Kashmir floral motif from England (1805), an English rose bouquet (1834), berries and flowers from Switzerland (1820), and scores of others.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateSep 21, 2012
    ISBN9780486139760
    Traditional Floral Designs and Motifs for Artists and Craftspeople

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    Traditional Floral Designs and Motifs for Artists and Craftspeople - Madeleine Orban-Szontagh

    DOVER PICTORIAL ARCHIVE SERIES

    MICROSCOPIC ART FORMS FROM THE PLANT WORLD, R. ANHEISSER. (0-486-46013-4)

    SNOW CRYSTALS, W. A. BENTLEY AND W. J. HUMPHREYS. (0-486-20287-9)

    BESLER’S BOOK OF FLOWERS AND PLANTS: 73 FULL-COLOR PLATES FROM HORTUS EYSTETTENSIS, 1613, BASILIUS BESLER. (0-486-46005-3)

    PLANTS AND FLOWERS: 1761 ILLUSTRATIONS FOR ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS, EDITED BY ALAN E. BESSETTE AND WILLIAM K. CHAPMAN. (0-486-26957-4)

    ART FORMS IN THE PLANT WORLD: 120 FULL-PAGE PHOTOGRAPHS, KARL BLOSSFELDT. (0-486-24990-5)

    NATURAL ART FORMS, KARL BLOSSFELDT. (0-486-40003-4)

    101 DOG ILLUSTRATIONS: A PICTORIAL ARCHIVE OF CHAMPIONSHIP BREEDS, GLADYS EMERSON COOK. (0-486-45438-X)

    ART NOUVEAU STENCIL DESIGNS, A. DESAINT. (0-486-45426-6)

    PICTORIAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HISTORIC ORNAMENT: 100 PLATES, INCLUDING 75 IN FULL COLOR, EDITED BY H. DOLMETSCH. (0-486-42834-6)

    FULL-COLOR JAPANESE DESIGNS AND MOTIFS, DOVER. (0-486-44891-6)

    RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE CEILING MASTERPIECES, DOVER. (0-486-46529-2)

    JAPANESE WOODBLOCK. KIMONO DESIGNS IN FULL COLOR, DOVER. (0-486-45602-1)

    150 FULL-COLOR ART NOUVEAU PATTERNS AND DESIGNS, FRIEDRICH WOLFRUM AND CO. (0-486-44511-9)

    381 OLD-FASHIONED HOLIDAY VIGNETTES IN FULL COLOR, EDITED BY CAROL BELANGER GRAFTON. (0-486-27686-4)

    BIG BOOK OF SILHOUETTES, EDITED BY CAROL BELANGER GRAFTON. (0-486-40701-2)

    400 TRADITIONAL TILE DESIGNS IN FULL COLOR, EDITED BY CAROL BELANGER

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