Re-create a lovely spray of wild roses that once bloomed in abundance on an early nineteenth-century fabric. Duplicate a lush Persian floral print from a kerchief worn in the waning days of the acien reacute;gime. These and dozens of other superb royalty-free designs mdash; adapted from patterns on antique textiles mdash; are available now to artists and craftspeople in this attractive collection.A noted artist and surface designer has masterfully rendered nearly 230 designs from French; English; German; Swiss; and Russian textiles of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Featured are profusions of flowers; leaves; sprays; branches; fruits; and birds in a wide variety of formats: clusters; bouquets; single vignettes; and more. Also shown are several full-page motifs with a single large; elaborate flower. Captions supply a brief description; date; and place of origin for the designs on each page.Among the many charming samples are floral and butterfly blockprints from Alsace in France (c. 1790); a Kashmir floral motif from England (1805); an English rose bouquet (1834); berries and flowers from Switzerland (1820); and scores of others.
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