over 700 designs

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	• A Treasury of Design for Artists and Craftsmen (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) Gregory Mirow Dover Publications, 1969 - 125 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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over 700 designs

This book is divided into 5 categories: florals, paisleys, geometrics, conversationals (which includes fruits, veges, animals, landscape), and folk designs. I've enjoyed the folk design chapter as it inclues scandinavian, slavic, mexican, african, and oriental designs. There are 725 motifs in this book which are helpful in a huge variety of artistic endeavors

Contemporary adaptations of beautiful, traditional decoration, patterns: Art Nouveau, Paisleys, op art, plaids, stripes, geometrics, snowflakes, Mexican, Scandinavian, African, Persian, masks, more. Limitless uses ? wallpapers, textiles, needlework, jewelry, other crafts. 104 plates, 4 in color.

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