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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. ...
Here are 120 images of graceful garden flowers -- foxglove, hollyhocks, columbine, lilies, among others, and 39 stencil designs of blossoming trees, reeds, mushrooms, oak leaves, peacocks, and more.
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.
Beautifully rendered, royalty-free images adapted from a host of design traditions -- from primitive tribal to French Renaissance. Invaluable sourcebook for artists, designers, craftworkers.
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.
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, ...
Flowers and embroidery have been inseparable on dress and furnishings from the age of Queen Elizabeth I up to the 20th century. This book, by the author of "The Embroiderer's Garden", is an expression of a passion for flowers - their beauty, their history and their use in embroidery - and a pattern source book. The illustrations show the ...
Graceful, romantic, and bursting with color, the rose, both in the garden and in the vase, is the most popular flower in the world. Its resonant charm and beauty has been captured and celebrated in everything from porcelain to portraits. Now, in poetic text and 150 color photographs, "Victoria" magazine shows readers how to fill their lives with ...
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.
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 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 ...
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