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Decorative frames and borders: 396 examples from the Renaissance to the present day

Edmund V. Gillon

1973

Borders, frames, and decorative motifs from the 1862 Derriey typographic catalog

Charles Derriey

1987

Loft living

Peggy Vance

2000

Stencil it

Helen Morris

2011

Treasury of pineapple designs for crocheting

Linda Macho

1983

Paula Pryke's Flower School

Paula Pryke

2006

The art of floral design 2nd edition

Norah T. Hunter

1994

Typographical ornaments

Philipp Luidl

1985

Houses of the world

Christine Westphale, Francisco Asensio Cerver

1996

A handbook of ornament with 300 plates containing about 3,000 illustrations of the elements, and the application of decoration to objects

Franz Sales Meyer

1892

Draw 50 flowers, trees, and other plants

Lee J. Ames

1995

Folk art motifs of Pennsylvania

Frances Lichten

1954

The regional arts of the early South

John Bivins, Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts., Forsyth Alexander

1991

Chinese folk designs

W. M. Hawley

1971

The woman in art nouveau decoration

Julius Klinger

1985

The art of floral design

Thomas, Paul

1998

Designs and patterns from historic ornament

William James Audsley

1968

The Grammar of Ornament

Owen Jones, David Pankow

1865

The furniture of Carlo Mollino

Napoleone Ferrari, Fulvio Ferrari

2006

Off the wall

Gideon Bosker, Sara Corpening Whiteford, Lena Lenček

2004

Floriated ornament

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

1849

Principles of Victorian decorative design

Christopher Dresser

1995

A treasury of design for artists and craftsmen

Gregory Mirow

1969

Pugin's gothic ornament

Augustus Pugin

1987

Design motifs of ancient Mexico

Jorge Enciso

1953

Snow, wave, pine

Niwa, Motoji, Sadao Hibi

2001

On designing

Anni Albers

1961

China Chic

Vivienne Tam

2000

Japanese stencil designs

Andrew White Tuer

1967

Russian geometric design and ornament

Edmund V. Gillon

1969

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