Artists, illustrators, designers, and craftspeople in search of exceptionally bold and inventive motifs will turn to this versatile treasury. Meticulously adapted from artwork that once decorated ancient rune stones, furniture, sword hilts, and other Celtic and Old Norse artifacts, the illustrations ... read more
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Artists, illustrators, designers, and craftspeople in search of exceptionally bold and inventive motifs will turn to this versatile treasury. Meticulously adapted from artwork that once decorated ancient rune stones, furniture, sword hilts, and other Celtic and Old Norse artifacts, the illustrations include an amazing array of human figures, animals, and mythological creatures, all ingeniously woven into an intricate network of spirals and interlacings. This book includes a CD-ROM containing 221 royalty-free images, 48 of them in color. Color images are saved in TIFF and JPEG formats; black-and-white images in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PICT, EPS, and TIFF formats.
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