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Creative Haven Mythical Fashions Coloring BookColor through 31 original designs of goddesses and mythical creatures from cultures around the world. Divine figures include Saraswati, the Indian goddess of knowledge and art; Asteria, Greek goddess of falling stars; Oya, the African goddess of storms; and many more in beautiful outfits....
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Fancy Dresses Described: A Glossary of Victorian CostumesThe Victorians adored fancy-dress parties: what better way to escape the rigidity of social conventions than to spend a festive evening disguised as Cleopatra, a Swiss milkmaid, or Alice in Wonderland? Well-to-do party-goers of the era consulted Fancy Dresses Described, an elaborate guide to...
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Inca DesignsA treasury of hard-to-find Inca artwork, this compilation features hundreds of striking designs. The images are drawn from the collections of a 19th-century anthropologist whose expeditions to Peru yielded a remarkable store of artifacts that reside today in museums throughout Germany. These designs, paintings,...
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Flower Fashion FantasiesThis gorgeous gallery presents models sporting dresses and hats consisting of intricately entwined flowers, leaves, and vines. These imaginative illustrations draw their inspiration from botanical drawings and Japanese, Chinese, and Indian artworks. Pages are perforated and printed on one side only for easy removal...
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Women's Hats, Headdresses and Hairstyles: With 453 Illustrations, Medieval to ModernFrom simple barbettes, crespines, and wimples worn in Anglo-Saxon times to the pillbox hat popularized by Jackie Kennedy in the mid-twentieth century, hats and headdresses have -- for centuries -- played an important part of a lady's wardrobe. This informative and meticulously researched book...
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800 Classic Ornaments and DesignsGraphic artists, illustrators, and craftspeople will welcome this treasury of beautifully engraved ornate frames, scrollwork, and other highly decorative designs -- 800 in all -- reproduced from an extremely rare mid-19th-century style book. Comprising 142 plates, the volume features a lavish assortment of ornaments,...
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The Book of Old Ships: From Egyptian Galleys to Clipper ShipsOf all the ships human beings have constructed to navigate the waters of the world -- from a hollowed-out log sharpened at both ends to modern ocean liners weighing thousands of tons -- those powered by the wind are among the most interesting and...
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Traditional Floral Designs and Motifs for Artists and CraftspeopleRe-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 --...
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Ornamental Borders, Scrolls and Cartouches in Historic Decorative StylesIn 1923 the Syracuse Ornamental Company in New York State advertised its fiber wood carvings, moldings, and furniture trimmings to the trade in an elegantly illustrated sales catalog. The catalog contained thousands of beautiful line drawings of delicately carved floral wreaths and sprays for...
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400 Floral Motifs for Designers, Needleworkers and CraftspeopleGrace your next needlework, craft, or graphic art project with just the right floral motif from this versatile collection of 400 beautifully rendered copyright-free designs. Reproduced directly from a rare Victorian-era album of transfer patterns by William Briggs and Company Ltd., these designs are...
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Historic Costume in PicturesFrom 1861 to 1890 the Munich publishing firm of Braun & Schneider published plates of historic and contemporary costume in their magazine M nchener Bilderbogen. These plates were eventually collected in book form and published at the turn of the century in Germany and...
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Japanese Design Motifs: 4,260 Illustrations of Japanese CrestsThis collection presents more than 4,000 individual designs in the 900-year-old tradition of Japanese family crests. Through constant variation and invention over the centuries, this has become one of the richest graphic art traditions in the world.Most of these motifs are circular, and they...
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African Designs from Traditional SourcesLinocut prints in crisp black-and-white designs reflect traditional work from Zulu, Masai, and dozens of other tribes. Masks, abstract motifs, and much more. 378 illustrations.Author: Geoffrey WilliamsPublisher: Dover PublicationsPublished: 06/01/1971Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.49w x 0.63dISBN: 9780486227528This title is not returnable
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Handbook of OrnamentRepublished unabridged from the final comprehensive edition, this work contains the largest single-volume collection of classical art motifs ever compiled. It reproduces material from Greek and Roman, medieval European, Islamic, Renaissance, baroque, and early nineteenth-century art, architecture, and design -- in all, presenting artists,...
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Smashbox: Make S#!+ HappenA collection of stunning portraits of Hollywood stars, including Jennifer Lopez, Kim Kardashian, Charlize Theron, Samuel L. Jackson, and Angelina Jolie, captured by Davis Factor, the great-grandson of legendary cosmetics pioneer Max Factor. Founded in 1990 by Davis and Dean Factor, the great-grandsons of...
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Graphis Protest Posters 2Graphis Poster Annual 2Throughout history, posters have served as a beacon of hope and change as they've encouraged the world to take the time to consider better outcomes and new ways of thinking. What started as communications to draw attention to newsworthy issues has...
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The Experience Book: For Designers, Thinkers & MakersContrary towhat one might imagine, there is no such thing as an experience designer. Atleast not in the sense that we might talk of an individual recognised as such.To make experiences is to be human. Shaman, architect, food engineer - you nameit, they are...
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Berlin U-Bahn Architecture & Design Map: Berliner U-Bahn ArchitekturkarteThis two-sided, bilingual map is a guide to Berlin's most distinctive U-Bahn stations. The map is an invitation to explore Berlin's extraordinary history from 1902 through today, as reflected in the remarkable creativity, colour and variety of its underground network's architecture and design. This...
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Innovating the Design Process: A Theatre Design JourneyInnovating the Design Process: A Theatre Design Journey explores the process of designing for theatre and details how each part of a designer's own process, no matter what their design specialization, can be innovated and adapted for a more confident journey and for better...
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European Mail Armour: Ringed Battle Shirts from the Iron Age, Roman Period and Early Middle AgesMail armour (commonly mislabelled 'chainmail') was used for more than two millennia on the battlefield. After its invention in the Iron Age, mail rapidly spread all over Europe and beyond. The Roman army, keen on new military technology, soon adopted mail armour and used...
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