Your complete guide to Floral design! Organized, in-depth, and fully illustrated in vivid color, this innovative book covers everything from the history of floral design, to the design principle today's successful designers have come to relay on.
Susan Gaber's encyclopedia of lush flower design contains 100 graceful, botanically accurate garden flowers rendered for artists, designers, or anyone who admires or needs floral designs and motifs. These drawings may be used copyright-free as part of Dover's Pictorial Archive Series. Over 150 line illustrations of 100 different flowers--from ...
A sourcebook of 4000 flower and plant motifs suitable for artists, designers, craftspeople and embroiderers. The author's lifetime in design has enabled him to create a unique reference source of stunning motifs from a range of styles and historical periods. All the images are presented so that they can be enlarged and photocopied by all ...
The author of "Victorian Needlepoint" offers a collection of traditional designs for stitchers of all abilities. The designs are suitable for traditional or modern rooms, and the projects include rugs, cushions and pictures, as well as ideas for adapting the designs into smaller projects. In this way, the design for a cushion translates into a ...
Learn to paint dogwood, lily of the valley, wisteria, zinnias, wild roses, Queen Anne's lace, chrysanthemums. This introduction to the basics of capturing flowers features handwritten pages with Hauser's reflections; worksheets for each project and brush stroke; patterns; and a photographic breakdown of all the necessary skills. Every month in the ...
Flowers are the universally popular motif for embroidery, whether for small decorative embellishments on clothes and household linens or for large embroidered pictures suitable for framing. Janet Haigh presents inspirational designs and techniques for creating a wide range of popular flowers in crewelwork, applique, and counted cross-stitch. ...
Rich selection of 124 stylized designs from rare German collection includes lush blossoms, tropical fruits, graceful foliage. Low-cost royalty-free motifs for textiles, surface decoration, more.
The pattern companion to Baltimore Beauties and Beyond, Vol. II, this book presents easy methods for creating dimensional flowers using wire-edged ribbons, plus biasbraid, raw, preturned, cutwork, and broderie perse baskets. Also included are templates, supply lists, and 50 ready-to-use patterns.
In Quilted Forest Decor, quilters of varying levels of experience learn applique and piecing techniques to add a little woodland character to their lives. Quilters will discover more than 20 projects, including many that can be completed in a weekend, in this spectacular new book. Among projects featured are pillows, wall hangings, place mats, ...
Drawing inspiration from over 1200 years of history, this book provides a collection of 75 embroideries alongside sketches from the author's workbook. It includes full instructions for all techniques and stitches.
Wiseman teaches beginners the joy of floral painting. Stroke by stroke the basics of flower shapes, form, values and correct brushwork are revealed while creating 10 projects.
Stained glass workers can brighten and animate their stained glass projects with imaginative kingfishers, eagles, jays, toucans, hummingbirds, cardinals, penguins, parrots, butterflies, and more with this matchless array of 94 charming bird and butterfly patterns. These patterns can be worked as is, reduced, or enlarged to suit your needs.
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.
A collection of projects from decorative painter Gretchen Cagle. Beginner and advanced painters are given step by step instructions for preparing and decorating baskets, bowls, chests, kitchen ware and more. Traceable patterns and colour mixing recipes are included.
The natural world has been a muse for artists throughout the ages, and jewelry designers have always shared that inspiration, their fascination with flora and fauna coming through in their work. Now, "Jeweled Garden" traces the evolution of garden-inspired jewelry from the 19th century to the present day in beautiful photographs and an absorbing ...
Treasury of 88 royalty-free drawings of 40 plants and flowers -- Daffodil, Apple and other more or less familiar species -- distinguished by their grace, impeccable draftsmanship, and botanical accuracy.
A collection of 35 original recipes for potpourri and other fragrant combinations, plus 19 appealing projects that make the most of natural aroma, textures, and colors -- from garlands for the mantle or table to bath oils and scented "dream" pillows.
This collection contains more than 20 charted needlepoint projects inspired by famous Impressionist paintings. The artists' colours and subjects are recreated in rugs and cushions, belts and bags, and as pictures which can be framed in their own right. Monet's waterlilies are featured as cushions; a still life by Cezanne of jugs and dishes has ...
The charming English garden style made famous by Donna Dewberry comes alive in new design motifs for machine embroidery projects. This one-of-a-kind resource teaches readers to easily add elements of Dewberry's tremendously popular garden motifs to an outfit, gift basket bath or kitchen accessory using machine embroidery. Inside this inspiring ...
A handbook on the style of embroidery called shadow redwork. It features designs from nature coupled with subtle, white-on-white lettering in the background. There are 24 designs altogether, and ten complete projects, including wallhangings, pillows and a quilt. The author also offers advice on fabric and thread decisions, plus instructions for ...
The brilliant colours and traditional designs of "roses and castles", the art of the narrow boat painters of the past, can transform mundane household objects into attractive pieces of art. This book explains the techniques for creating items for use in the home - or afloat. It covers topics from creating a good base to adding the finishing ...
Beautifully rendered, royalty-free images adapted from a host of design traditions -- from primitive tribal to French Renaissance. Invaluable sourcebook for artists, designers, craftworkers.
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