How far will people go to decorate their bodies? This dazzling array of tattoos provides 200 illustrations that showcase the ornamental art form and represent authentic styles — Japanese, Polynesian, Tribal, Mehndi, and more. With images ranging from stylized birds and animals to head-to-toe abstracts, this set will be a treasured resource for artists and tattoo buffs. Dover Original.
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Asian Tattoo Flash CD-ROM and Book by Alan Weller Fire-breathing dragons. Elegant floral bands. Exquisitely detailed Mehndi designs. This collection of 125 beautiful Asian images reflects centuries of art and culture. Includes three versions of each tattoo — in black-and-white outline, solid drawing, and full color.
Native American Design by Dover Collected from rare and authentic sources, nearly 500 stunning color and black-and-white illustrations celebrate traditional Native American art. Discover magical designs used to decorate clothing, ceremonial masks, jewelry, blankets, utensils, and more.
Tattooing in the Marquesas by Willowdean Chatterson Handy Definitive source on intricate tattoos of Polynesia's Marquesas Islands offers a rare glimpse of a vanished art. Its 38 plates of black-and-white drawings and photographs provide an unusually complete and intimate record.
Costume and Fashion by Alan Weller From Native American rituals to the court of Versailles, this fashion archive presents finery from around the world. Focusing chiefly on Western styles, it spans centuries of attire from every walk of life.
Angels by Alan Weller Artists, designers, and their audiences share an endless fascination with angels and celestial imagery. This heavenly collection encompasses both famous and lesser-known works of art from an impressive variety of eras and cultures.
922 Decorative Vector Ornaments CD-ROM and Book by Carol Belanger Grafton This collection features 922 versatile Vector-based borders, cartouches, scrolls, and spot illustrations, derived from many sources, including Greek vases, Byzantine mosaics, German wood carvings and ironwork, and Persian tiles.
The History of Tattooing by Wilfrid Dyson Hambly This 1925 survey offers one of the most complete histories of world tattoo practices. It features 80 images from vanished cultures and discusses their significance in terms of religious beliefs and social status.
Samurai and Swordsmen CD-ROM and Book by Alan Weller This visually stunning portfolio depicting 117 noble samurai in full regalia, brandishing swords and other weaponry, commemorates the glory of these ancient warriors. Includes figures based on images by popular Japanese artist Kuniyoshi and his disciples.
101 Great Samurai Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, John Grafton Kuniyoshi was a master of the warrior woodblock print — and these 18th-century illustrations represent the pinnacle of his craft. Full-color portraits of renowned Japanese samurais pulse with movement, passion, and remarkably fine detail.
Asian Design by Alan Weller Beautifully designed compendium spans the entire range of Asian art and culture. Included are 256 designs, patterns, and decorative motifs from China, Japan, Korea, India, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Tibet, and other Asian countries.
African Design by Dover Capture the spirit of African design with this stunning resource of 287 color and black-and-white designs featuring familiar imagery — birds, animals, and faces — as well as abstracts — lines, geometrics, and patterns.
1500 Chinese Design Motifs by Pan Wuhua These crisp, black-and-white images will lend a distinctive Far Eastern accent to any project. Geometrics, abstracts, and other intriguing configurations adapt easily for use as spot illustrations and other applications.
Chinese Design by Dover Striking compendium culled directly from rare sources: animals, birds, fish, abstracts, patterns — 200 in both full-color and black-and-white — in a remarkable diversity of styles, elegantly simple to intricately complex.
Japanese Design by Dover Superb collection of authentic Japanese art and design reproduced directly from rare and costly sources includes birds, florals, animals, fish, crests, geometric designs, and patterns. Over 260 color and black-and-white illustrations.
Classic Tattoo Designs Coloring Book by Eric Gottesman This collection of 30 colorable tattoos — all adapted from patterns created during the first part of the 20th century — lets colorists of all ages apply their own eye-catching hues.
Tattoo: Secrets of a Strange Art by Albert Parry This pioneering 1933 survey approaches body art from a variety of angles, including artistic, semiotic, psychological, sociological, and cultural perspectives. It examines overt and subliminal messages of romance, patriotism, and religious fervor. 27 illustrations.
Treasury of Chinese Designs CD-ROM and Book by Stanley Appelbaum More than 250 distinctive, black-and-white motifs offer an abundant supply of useful borders, intricate floral displays, real and fabulous animals, geometric abstract patterns, and popular Chinese ideographs.
Southeast Asian Designs CD-ROM and Book by Marty Noble Includes artfully rendered images of serene Buddhas, sandstone sculptures, textile designs, details from decorative panels, temple ornaments, shadow puppets, masks, and other motifs. 150 black-and-white illustrations.
Maori Tattooing by H. G. Robley Maori tattooing (moko) communicates the bearer's genealogy, tribal affiliation, and spirituality. This definitive study discusses the distinctions between men and women's moko, patterns and designs, and moko in legend and song.
Southeast Asian Designs by Marty Noble Over 100 authentic motifs, among them serene Buddhas, sandstone sculptures, papier mâché masks, shadow puppets, tattoos, and details from temple ornaments. Approximately 125 black-and-white designs.
Classic Tattoo Designs CD-ROM and Book by Eric Gottesman Total of 230 authentic tattoo designs from the 1920s to the 1960s, from pierced hearts and pretty girls to crossed swords and butterflies. 115 designs in both full color and black-and-white.
African Design: An Illustrated Survey of Traditional Craftwork by Margaret Trowell Nearly 200 handsome illustrations — from repetitive motifs in fabrics to carvings on bowls, drinking vessels, and door panels. Each object is identified and tribal source cited. 197 black-and-white illustrations.
Chinese Designs and Motifs by Marty Noble With its dragons and fish, flowers and foo dogs, this magnificent compilation of 361 royalty-free designs offers an exotic archive of crisp black-and-white images in a variety of shapes and sizes.
African Designs CD-ROM and Book by Dover Authentic, black-and-white African artwork, adapted from motifs on textiles, masks, jewelry, and other sources, depicts 235 dynamic images, among them stylized lions, fish, birds, totemic figures, abstracts, and border configurations.
Japanese Designs CD-ROM and Book by Dover More than 450 lovely black-and-white designs include depictions of people in traditional garb, fruit, flowers, animals, family crests, geometric designs, demons, dragons, much more.
Chinese Designs CD-ROM and Book by Dover Mythic figures, intricate floral sprays, pandas resting among bamboo leaves, a tiger stalking its prey, dragons, butterflies, and other flora and fauna make up these 351 exquisite black-and-white Chinese motifs.
Traditional African Designs by Gregory Mirow Over 200 authentic designs from Dahomey, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya, Ghana, other African nations depict such unusual configurations as stylized lions, birds, fish, alligators, totemic figures, abstracts, geometrics, and zigzags.
Traditional Chinese Designs by Stanley Appelbaum Over 200 royalty-free motifs: dragons, peonies, plum blossoms, tigers, clouds, geometrics, other favorites.
Traditional Japanese Design Motifs by Joseph D'Addetta Over 250 readily usable, royalty-free, authentic Japanese designs — from ceramics, textiles, more. Includes florals, demons, animals, geometrics, more.
Japanese Design Motifs by Matsuya Company Definitive catalogue of Japanese heraldic crests featuring almost unlimited variety of plant, animal, bird, and geometric forms, from "wild goose" to "folding fan" to "mountain and mist," each with dozens of variations. 4,260 illustrations.
African Designs from Traditional Sources by Geoffrey Williams Linocut prints in crisp blacks and whites reflect traditional work from Zulu, Masai, and dozens of other tribes. Masks, abstract motifs, and much more.
