This classic sourcebook of decorative motifs contains 100 plates of copyright-free Gothic designs, meticulously reproduced from rare 19th-century engravings. Many are floral and foliate designs rendered from panels, capitals, borders, brackets, friezes, grotesques and other decorative elements from such architectural landmarks as New College Chapel at Oxford, Rouen Cathedral, Winchester Cathedral, Kenilworth Castle, Eltham Palace and the tomb of the Earl of Warwick.
 

 

 

 

Featuring 31 step-by-step projects with traceable patterns baskets, bowls, boxes, cabinets, chets, kitchen ware, planters and more!
 

 

Scores of elegant designs incorporating flowers and fruit — adapted from motifs on antique textiles — are useful for a host of applications. Floral borders, centerpieces, and allover patterns are ideal for commercial artists and designers but will also appeal to hobbyists who enjoy embroidery, designing textiles, and other crafts. 275 black-and-white illustrations.
 

A handy guidebook that includes eighty ornamental and useful knots with easy-to-follow; with step-by-step illustrations.
 

This book features new projects from Brenda Stewart, a favorite designer among today's decorative painting audience. Aimed at the "advanced beginner," this book features delicate Victorian designs and soft, pretty colors: elegant florals (roses, violets, daffodils), graceful still lifes, and old-fashioned Santas and angels. The projects are painted in acrylics and alkyds on wood, china plates, trays, boxes and other surfaces. Every project includes step-by-step illustrations, complete instructions, pattern, material list, color mixing recipes, and a gorgeous shot of the final project.

Paper pricking is a Victorian paper craft. This book shows how to create paper lace and emboss and make unusual and delicate cards and other objects.
Janet Wilson shows how to create a stunning series of decorative pictures and cards using Victorian, Celtic and contemporary themes. Combining tracing, paper piercing, embossing, stippling, and cutwork techniques on paper, she shows how to build up borders of flowers and leaves, and how to produce delicately pierced pictures and paper lace.

Decorative knitting : 100 practical techniques, 200 inspirational ideas and 18 creative projects / Kate Haxell and Luise Roberts. This book focuses on how to embellish simple knitted items with a host of decorative techniques to make them look more beautiful and complex than they really are.