Bain Iain. Celtic Knotwork

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...

Marlborough House, 1858. — 430 p. This treasury of ornamental art includes lithographs by Francis Bedford (1824-1913), copied from his own photographs taken at the museum at Marlborough House in 1853. The items featured include a silver chalice in the style of the fifteenth century designed by Pugin and an Indian embroidered satin apron. Bedford began working as a lithographer...

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...

Dover Publications, 2000. — 47 p. In this marvelous collection, drawn from numerous Celtic and Old Norse sources in the British Isles and Scandinavia, a rich selection of traditional Christian and secular designs is brought together. Some of the meticulously rendered designs were found in iIluminated manuscripts, missals, and psalters of the Celtic Church (including the...

London.: S&T Gilbert. 1867. - 113 c. Цветные иллюстрации. В журнале представлены разнообразные и уникальные китайские орнаменты, интересующие художников всех стран мира. Элементы китайского орнамента можно использовать для вышивки, рукоделия, ювелирных украшений, дизайна.

М.: В. Шевчук, 2008. — 196 с. — ISBN 978-5-94232-061-4 В данном издании представлены разнообразные и уникальные скандинавские орнаменты. Сложная и противоречивая история скандинавских народов многие годы является предметом научных споров. Мирные земледельцы, обрабатывавшие плодородные земли в Швеции, Дании и Норвегии, "вдруг" стали грозными воинами, чьи быстроходные корабли...