Treasury of Floral Designs and Initials for Artists and Craftspeople

Mary Carolyn Waldrep

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9780486319971
• Topic: Design
• Subtopic: Decorative Arts

You'll find a thousand different uses for this practical archive of royalty-free designs with a floral theme. It includes over 700 wonderfully graceful and imaginative designs featuring flowers, leaves, and vines in delicate interlacements. Most incorporate elaborately embellished letters, initials, monograms, and names.

Needleworkers, fabric painters, and other craftworkers will love browsing through these pages for the perfect design to personalize towels, handkerchiefs, bed linens, clothing, and more. Textile designers, graphic artists, and calligraphers will also find the volume brimming with useful ideas and models for creating rich floral designs, illustrated letters, borders, and frames.

Publisher’s Note

IN THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY, no household was complete without an abundant supply of lavishly embroidered bed linens, table linens, handkerchiefs, lingerie, shirts, blouses and other items. Often, such embroidery consisted of names, monograms and initials, further embellished with flowers, vines and leaves. Some of the work was undoubtedly done by the ladies of the house—a tho...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Publisher’s Note
• Back Cover