Spécimen général de la Fonderie Amsterdam (page 1/2)

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Lines and Leaves Page Border

This is a demonstration of how to use a repeating leaf ornament to make a border by combining it with metal rules (to draw straight lines) and with what I take to be mushrooms in the corners. [more...] [$]

Wide border with roses and leaves

This full-page border is wider at the bottom, giving a solid, balanced feel to the page. It includes roses and leaves, or I think they are roses at least. There’s an Art Deco feel to this border. [more...] [$]

Ten-piece floral border, green and purple

This is a dainty border, so I have coloured it with pastels. I can supply it also in the original black and white, or as a GIMP XCF file with the two different colours on separate layers if you want to change the colours.

This border was originally made from ten different designes of type, repeated and arranged. I also have scans of the individual pieces.

The small wheel (at the top centre for example) marks the division: each piece of type on either side has one half of the wheel. There’s very narrow one piece visible half-way down the sides that has half of a wheel, then ome leaves, then another half-wheel. The corner pieces had a half-wheel where they meet the other pieces of type and a single wheel in the corner that’s all theirs; they are the [more...] [$]

Full-page border of repeated vine leaves

This full-page border was made from large pieces of type, each with one triple leaf on it together with a segment of stem and some blobs (grapes maybe). If you look closely you can see where the pieces join.

If you wanted a narrower border, you could duplicate some of the pieces to make the sides longer, then scale [more...] [$]