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    400 Floral Motifs for Designers, Needleworkers and Craftspeople
    400 Floral Motifs for Designers, Needleworkers and Craftspeople
    400 Floral Motifs for Designers, Needleworkers and Craftspeople
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    400 Floral Motifs for Designers, Needleworkers and Craftspeople

    By Briggs & Co.

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    Grace your next needlework, craft, or graphic art project with just the right floral motif from this versatile collection of 400 beautifully rendered copyright-free designs. Reproduced directly from a rare Victorian-era album of transfer patterns by William Briggs and Company Ltd., these designs are among the finest of the period are are ideally suited for embroidery, textile design, woodworking, leathercraft, metalwork, and a host of other design and craft uses. Included are floral borders, corners and centers, wreaths, delicate sprays, allover patterns, lovely compositions with birds and butterflies, and more. Among the floral favorites in this volume are the Apple Blossom, Azalea, Begonia, Cornflower, Forget-me-not, Fuchsia, Iris, Lily of the Valley, Narcissus, Primrose, Snowdrop, Strawberry, Tiger Lily, Tulip, Verbena, Violet, and many others.
    The designs are conveniently arranged according to type and an index of uses suggests specific kinds of projects for which each type of design is especially suited. Also included are complete, easy-to-follow instructions on how to transfer the designs to cloth or other media and concise descriptions of embroidery stitches.
    Whatever your craft or design need and whatever your level of expertise — from beginner to expert — you are sure to find this inexpensive volume an invaluable source you will turn to again and again.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateJan 16, 2013
    ISBN9780486137773
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      400 Floral Motifs for Designers, Needleworkers and Craftspeople - Briggs & Co.

      Copyright © 1986 by Dover Publications, Inc.

      All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions.

      This Dover edition, first published in 1986, is a selection from the Wm. Briggs and Company Ltd. Album of Transfer Patterns [n.d., circa 1900?]. This Dover edition contains an introduction with instructions for transferring designs and a description of embroidery stitches.

      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. (For permission for additional use, please write to Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501.)

      However, republication or reproduction of any illustration by any other graphic service, whether it be in a book or in any other design resource, is strictly prohibited.

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Dover Publications,

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