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Treasury of Historic Pattern and Design

J. Engelhorn

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Ornate historical motifs for makers and dreamers

If you love getting lost in beautiful detail, this feels like opening a treasure chest of decorative history. The sheer variety of medieval and Renaissance patterns makes it endlessly browsable, whether you are designing, crafting, or just admiring ornament. It has that satisfying old-world richness that artists, textile lovers, and visual researchers would keep returning to for fresh inspiration.

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Treasury of Historic Pattern and Design

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ISBN: 9780486262741
Author: J. Engelhorn
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date of Publication: 1990-04-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Art, History
Goodreads rating: 3.86
(rated by 7 readers)

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This rich sourcebook features 480 magnificently detailed decorative patterns and motifs, most of them originally created in Europe during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Reprinted from a rare surviving copy of a Victorian design portfolio, it offers a boundless, royalty-free source of inspiration and a broad survey of notable achievements in the history of design. The patterns are drawn from silk fabrics, carpets, embroideries, robes, velvet brocades, damask wearings, wallpapers, interiors, and other decorative genres that flourished in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and elsewhere over more than eight centuries.
 

Ornate historical motifs for makers and dreamers

If you love getting lost in beautiful detail, this feels like opening a treasure chest of decorative history. The sheer variety of medieval and Renaissance patterns makes it endlessly browsable, whether you are designing, crafting, or just admiring ornament. It has that satisfying old-world richness that artists, textile lovers, and visual researchers would keep returning to for fresh inspiration.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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