Page James. Guide for drawing the acanthus, and every description of ornamental foliage

Dover Publications, 2010. — 128 p. — ISBN13: 978-0486473185. Rendered from a rare 1915 five-volume set, this all-encompassing design treasury captures the graceful beauty of traditional Japanese motifs. These 100 full-color plates — many with multiple images — range from ornate florals and elegant cranes to dragons and Buddhas, and from Silk Road imports to Edo-style textile...

Springer, 2017. — 616. p. — ISBN13: 978-1441902160. The main focus of this unique book is an in-depth examination of the polygonal technique; the primary method used by master artists of the past in creating Islamic geometric patterns. The author details the design methodology responsible for this all-but-lost art form and presents evidence for its use from the historical...

1981. - 143 pages ISBN: 0870992880 By the sixteenth century designs for ornament were increasingly executed on paper as drawings or, more often, as prints. The designs in "Renaissance Ornament Prints and Drawings" provide a rich record of the sources of the period's ornament vocabulary, and, beyond this, a consideration of a number of documented examples of a single motif can...

Dover, 1999. — 197 p. — ISBN: 978-0486153933. This book belongs to the Dover Pictorial Archive Series. You may use the designs and illustrations for graphics and crafts applications, free and without special permission, provided that you include no more than ten in the same publication or project.

Courier Corporation, 2013. — 127 p. — ISBN10: 0486402657, ISBN13: 978-0486402659. This lavish collection of royalty-free engravings by the celebrated 19th-century artist F. Knight — reproduced directly from a rare original edition — contains elaborate wall murals with trompe-l’oeil effects; scenes of hunters, flanked by mythological figures; idealized damsels in rustic...

Eighth Edition. — Leipzig: Verlag Von Seemann, 1894. — 548 с. В книге подробно с иллюстрациями описаны способы построения геометрического, растительного, зооморфного орнамента. Детально описаны способы построения сетчатого орнамента,бордюра, розеты, геральдики и т.д. Книга незаменима для профессиональных художников, архитекторов, дизайнеров, декораторов, а так же студентов...