Persian Designs and Motifs for Artists and Craftsmen

Author: Ali Dowlatshahi
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486146804
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 114

Book Description
Outstanding collection of 400 motifs: floral designs, geometrics, arabesques, mythical creatures, rosettes, paisley patterns, palmettes, medallions, border and marginal decorations, scrolls, curves, and hunting scenes.

Islamic Designs for Artists and Craftspeople

Author: Eva Wilson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048625819X
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 126

Book Description
Beautifully rendered from book illustrations, pottery, metalwork, carvings, and other sources, these 280 black-and-white designs include geometrics, florals, and animal and human figures in circular, hexagonal, rectangular, and other shapes.

Traditional Floral Designs and Motifs for Artists and Craftspeople

Author: Madeleine Orban-Szontagh
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048613976X
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
Superb treasury of 319 royalty-free designs skillfully rendered from French, English, German, Swiss, and Russian textiles of 18th and 19th centuries. Profusion of flowers, leaves, sprays, branches, fruits, and birds.

Authentic Turkish Designs

Author: Azade Akar
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486272117
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
Plant and animal motifs, chain patterns, geometrical and symbolic motifs, architectural forms, stylized suns and moons, rosettes and borders, calligraphic lettering and Turkish adaptations of rococo — all derived from authentic sources — are among the many types of design illustrated in clear, easily reproducible images. 264 black-and-white illustrations:

Arabic Art in Color

Author: Prisse d’Avennes
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486155358
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
Here are 141 designs and motifs in authentic full color from classic 19th-century work by noted French historian — a visual vocabulary of Islamic decorative art.

Arabic Geometrical Pattern and Design

Author: J. Bourgoin
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486155315
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
Nearly 200 examples exhibit the wide range of Islamic art, including hexagon and octagon designs, combinations of stars and rosettes, and many variations on other geometric patterns. Twenty-eight examples from traditional sources in Cairo and Damascus include sanctuary doors, openwork windows, and inlaid marble pavements and ceilings.

Wildflower Designs and Motifs for Artists and Craftspeople

Author: Charlene Tarbox
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486156877
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 81

Book Description
Clear, accurate illustrations of 163 common North American wildflowers — tiger lily and water lily, snowdrop, ox-eye daisy, thistle, and wild strawberry among them. The flowers are depicted in full-page and half-page sizes in many different configurations: as individual blossoms, in borders, corners, clusters, wreaths, and garlands. Some are shown in frames.

Book Arts of Isfahan

Author: Alice Taylor
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 089236338X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 102

Book Description
In the seventeenth century, the Persian city of Isfahan was a crossroads of international trade and diplomacy. Manuscript paintings produced within the city’s various cultural, religious, and ethnic groups reveal the vibrant artistic legacy of the Safavid Empire. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Getty Museum, Book Arts of Isfahan offers a fascinating account of the ways in which the artists of Isfahan used their art to record the life around them and at the same time define their own identities within a complex society.

Persian Art

Author: Moya Carey
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN: 9781851779338
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Today the Victoria and Albert Museum holds extensive and renowned collections of Iranian art, spanning at least twelve centuries of Iran's sophisticated cultural history. These objects range from archaeological finds to architectural salvage, from domestic furnishings and drinking vessels to design archives. Most of this diverse material was purchased in the late nineteenth century, over a few decades - roughly between 1873 and 1893 - during a specific period of contact between Victorian Britain and Qajar Iran. This book investigates that period through four case studies, showing how architects, diplomats, dealers, collectors and craftsmen engaged with Iran's complex visual traditions, ancient and modern --

Craft in America

Author: Jo Lauria
Publisher: Potter Style
ISBN: 0307346471
Category : Decorative arts
Languages : en
Pages : 323

Book Description
Illustrated with 200 stunning photographs and encompassing objects from furniture and ceramics to jewelry and metal, this definitive work from Jo Lauria and Steve Fenton showcases some of the greatest pieces of American crafts of the last two centuries. Potter Craft