159 Celtic Designs

Author: Amy L. Lusebrink
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486276880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
Over 150 motifs reflecting the eye-catching intricacies of Celtic design, ideal for use in graphics layouts, needlework designs and other art and craft projects. Often incorporating sinuous interlacements of animal, floral and abstract motifs, the designs have been clearly and boldly drawn to provide the clearest possible image for reproduction. The collection includes a variety of interesting shapes and sizes.

Celtic Designs and Motifs

Author: Courtney Davis
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486267180
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
Contains 103 copyright-free Celtic designs and motifs for graphic artists.

Celtic Stencil Designs

Author: Co Spinhoven
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486996786
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
Exciting, versatile images depict birds and beasts of myth and scripture, elegant abstract designs, and more. Available in varied sizes, shapes, and complexities. 164 black-and-white illustrations.

Celtic Art

Author: George Bain
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486317447
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
This unique volume clearly demonstrates simple geometric techniques for making intricate knots, interlacements, spirals, Kellstype initials, human and animal figures in distinctive Celtic style. Features over 500 illustrations.

Viking Designs

Author: A. G. Smith
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486404692
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
This compilation features more than 175 dynamic, royalty-free motifs in a wide range of styles. Derived from the metalwork, woodwork, textiles, carvings, and ceramics of the Viking homelands of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, they include sinuously intertwined patterns, mythological animals, dragon-slaying heroes on horseback, and many other striking images.

Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Painting

Author: Carl Adam Johan Nordenfalk
Publisher: George Braziller
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 140

Book Description
This book presents a colection of colour pla tes from famous illuminated manuscripts that emerged from mo nasteries and island workshops during the 7th and 8th centur ies A.D., including the Book of Kells, the Lindisfarne Gospe ls, and the Book of Durrow. '

Celtic Stained Glass Coloring Book

Author: Courtney Davis
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486274560
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Sixteen full-page plates of Celtic motifs on translucent paper. Mythical beasts, Celtic crosses, saints, and more. Color and hang near a light source for exciting stained glass effects.

The Decorated Letter

Author: Jonathan James Graham Alexander
Publisher: London : Thames & Hudson
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
"This book is an anthology of decorated letters to be found in European manuscripts from the fourth to the fifteenth century" -- Introduction.

Treasury of Flower Designs for Artists, Embroiderers and Craftsmen

Author: Susan Gaber
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486240967
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 82

Book Description
A hundred garden favorites rendered in black-and-white line illustrations will suggest numerous design and artistic uses. Amaryllis, anemone, begonia, cinquefoil, peony, snapdragon flow and weave, many forming borders and frames.

Celtic and Norse Designs CD-ROM and Book

Author: Amy L. Lusebrink
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486997928
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 56

Book Description
Rescued from ancient sources, these exceptionally bold motifs include an amazing array of birds, human figures, and mythological creatures, all ingeniously woven into intricate networks of spirals and interlacings. 221 illustrations, 48 of them in color, meticulously adapted from artwork that once graced ancient rune stones, furniture, sword hilts, and other artifacts.