Products in Dover Design Library |  | |  | Flower Designs
by Charlene Tarbox
Over 80 lovely blossoms — wild sunflowers, columbine, peonies, orchids, roses, and more — in sprays, wreaths, clusters, single blossoms, and other configurations. A handy source of design inspiration.
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|  | Geometric Allover Patterns
by Ian O. Angell
46 striking geometric lattice designs drawn by a computer using sets of lines and arcs based on beautiful, centuries-old patterns. Crisp black-and-white illustrations can be used singly or in handsome combinations.
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|  | The Illuminated Alphabet
by Theodore Menten
Fifty medieval initial letters. Celtic floral interlacements, biblical scenes, scenes of war and play, knights, grotesque animals, martyrdoms, fanciful devices, more. Wonderful design inspiration.
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|  | Japanese Floral Patterns and Motifs
by Madeleine Orban-Szontagh
Archive of 45 designs adapted from kimonos, Noh costumes and screens: stripes, allover patterns, nature scenes, sprays of flowers and branches, much more, convey subtle elegance. Captions.
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|  | Maya Designs
by Wilson G. Turner
Over 40 beautiful renderings of Maya designs found on building facades, painted vases, designs drawn from architectural sculpture and other monumental carvings, murals, illustrated books (codexes), and miscellaneous artifacts.
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|  | Medieval Alphabets and Decorative Devices
by Henry Shaw
30 authentic alphabets and over 150 individual letters and decorative devices — taken from Westminster Abbey monuments, 15th-century French prayer books, and other sources — incorporate vines, flowers, leaves, faces, and more.
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|  | Mehndi Designs: Traditional Henna Body Art
by Marty Noble
Scores of lovely designs adapted from authentic images used in an ancient art form include fine line, lacy, and paisley motifs, floral borders, heart-shaped insets, and repeat patterns. 166 black-and-white illustrations.
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|  | Mola Designs
by Frederick W. Shaffer
Mola is the Cuna Indian word for an intricate reverse-appliqué needlework technique. These 45 folk-style designs signify themes ancient and modern: pre-Christian crosses, animals, birds, abstracts, and more.
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| |  | Northwest Coast Indian Designs
by Madeleine Orban-Szontagh
Over 270 designs from art of Nootka, Kwakiutl, Tlingit, other groups. Stylized plants, abstracts, repeating patterns, totemic images, more.
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|  | Original Art Deco Allover Patterns
by William Rowe
Unique collection of 59 royalty-free graphics includes stunning full-page patterns with variants on opposite page, plus visual suggestions on adapting, developing, and varying designs.
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|  | Paisley Designs
by Gregory Mirow
This collection of 44 original plates of royalty-free designs range from small individual cones, barely an inch high, to full-page motifs. Intricately beautiful.
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|  | Polynesian and Oceanian Designs
by Gregory Mirow
A rich selection of original designs adapted from authentic folk art of New Zealand, the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, the Hawaiian Islands, and Australia. 225 royalty-free illustrations.
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|  | Russian Folk Motifs
by Peter Linenthal
This treasury of 226 designs, all meticulously rendered from authentic Russian art and artifacts — motifs from Moldovian carpets, Ukrainian Easter eggs, stove tiles, more. Depictions of Matryoshka dolls, ceramic toys, woodcuts of folkloric characters.
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|  | Scandinavian Folk Designs
by Lis Bartholm
With 155 traditional motifs to choose from — all adapted by noted Danish designer Lis Bartholm — today's artists and craftspeople can recreate many of the lovely patterns that ornamented domestic furnishings generations ago.
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|  | Scroll Ornaments of the Early Victorian Period
by F. Knight
This compilation of a master engraver's designs presents a versatile array of borders, frames, scrolls, cartouches, arches, corners, and crests, in motifs featuring floral, animal, fantasy, and rococo patterns.
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|  | Silhouette Designs for Artists and Craftspeople
by Rico Prosperoso
Choose from 153 decorative silhouette motifs to answer virtually any need for distinctive, royalty-free art: graceful wood sprites, ships in full sail, floral vignettes, a Chinese dragon, and much more.
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|  | Southeast Asian Designs
by Marty Noble
Over 100 authentic motifs, among them serene Buddhas, sandstone sculptures, papier maché masks, shadow puppets, tattoos, and details from temple ornaments. Approximately 125 black-and-white designs.
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|  | Southwestern Indian Designs
by Madeleine Orban-Szontagh
Treasury of 250 royalty-free images, drawn from authentic motifs on Hopi ceremonial dress, Zuni shields, Anasazi pottery, Navajo jewelry, rugs and sand paintings, Pueblo pottery, and many more.
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|  | 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.
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