Items matching decoration (results page 1)

Clip-art: Victorian Floriated BorderThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A swirly Victorian border around each page in the section about the plates; lots of tendrils! The original (this version) was black; there are also brown and green border version, and a sidways, or po [...]

Keywords: borders, floral, floriated borders, decoration, floriated borders, greyscale

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Added: 2011-02-17

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Clip-art: Victorian Floriated Border in Green and BrownThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A swirly Victorian border around each page in the section about the plates; lots of tendrils! This is the original portrait version but coloured, with the leaves and flowers in green and the stems in [...]

Keywords: colour, borders, frames, floral, floriated borders, decoration

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Added: 2011-02-17

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Clip-art: Victorian Floral Border, Landscape VersionThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A swirly Victorian border around each page in the section about the plates; lots of tendrils! This is the original portrait version but coloured, with the leaves and flowers in green and the stems in [...]

Keywords: colour, borders, frames, floral, floriated borders, decoration

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Added: 2011-02-17

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Border of Peace from Front Cover.Fabiola, or, the Church of the Catacombs (1887)

The front cover of the book includes a border in gold and black on a red background; there are five florets containing symbols of peace, love and Christianity, as well as a vase of wheat and grasses a [...]

Keywords: borders, colour, religion, peace, decoration, symbols, christianity, christmas, xmas

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Added: 2013-12-07

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Hoy Court leather-bound spine gold decorationsThe Holy Court (1663)

Detail from the spine of the book (the back edge with the writing on it): I collected the five hand-tooled gold decorations together.

Keywords: ornament, decoration, book covers, colour, pictures of books

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Added: 2011-01-30

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Irregular border of flowers, birds and natureBible Pictures and Stories (New Testament) (1892)

This border of wild berries, thorns, flowers, leaves, and even has a pair of nesting birds in it. It came from the title page of the second half of this book. There is also a version of the border col [...]

Keywords: borders, frames, cartici, floriated borders, floral, wild flowers, decoration, page elements, spring, greyscale

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Added: 2013-10-01

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Green floriated borderBible Pictures and Stories (New Testament) (1892)

This border of wild berries, thorns, flowers, leaves, and even has a pair of nesting birds in it. It came from the title page of the second half of this book. The original was a black and white floral [...]

Keywords: colour, borders, frames, cartici, floriated borders, floral, wild flowers, decoration, page elements

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Added: 2013-10-01

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Vintage ornate borderOrnamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

A Victorian border taken from the book cover of this vintage book of alphabets and lettering. The centre is actually textured, so watch for that if you edit the image. If you add text, use colours tha [...]

Keywords: borders, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds, victoriana, decoration

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Added: 2013-11-29

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Vintage shabby-chic ornate full-page borderOrnamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

A shabby-chic Victorian border taken from the book cover of this vintage book of alphabets and lettering. The 200 pixel thumbnail for this image has some text in it, but the others are plain. It’s a n [...]

Keywords: borders, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds, victoriana, decoration, frames, cartici

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Added: 2013-12-03

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Corner Bookcase OrnamentTypo Ornamenty (1990)

This vignette or round image could ba a tailpiece, an ornament at the end of a chapter, or a decoration for an article about books or reading, perhaps, or a private secret place where we love to go, w [...]

Keywords: ornaments, books, pictures of books, decoration, tailpieces, round, circular, bookcases, greyscale

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Added: 2022-09-20

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Roundel with roses and thornsThe Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I (1930)

This roundel, or circular wreath illustration, was made as a typographical decoration for the end of one of Spenser’s sonnets. It features flowers with red petals, although the leaves and stems were p [...]

Keywords: decoration, ornaments, wreaths, flowers, leaves, frames, tailpieces, roundels, colour

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Added: 2015-02-01

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Roundel with stylized blue flowersThe Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I (1930)

This roundel, or circular wreath illustration, was made as a typographical decoration for the end of one of Spenser’s sonnets. It features flowers with blue petals, perhaps meant to be forget-me-not. [...]

Keywords: decoration, ornaments, flowers, wreaths, frames, leaves, tailpieces, roundels, colour

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Added: 2015-03-04

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Art Deco Full Page BorderStock Designs of Page Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display Pages (1922)

This border, with its Art Deco swirls and architectural pillars, was printed in olive green ink. You can use the Colour tab to the side of the image to change the colour, though.

Keywords: borders, art deco, full-page borders, green, clipart, green, decoration, ornaments, colour

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Added: 2022-04-30

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Ornate Victorian BorderOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This ornate border is based on Mediaeval and Sixteenth Century designs; strictly speaking it is pre-Victorian. It features stylized roses. There is also a modified version for use on US legal-sized pa [...]

Keywords: borders, decoration, greyscale

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Added: 2012-05-18

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Ornate border for US legal-sized paperOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This is a version of the ornate early Victorian border modified to be suitable for legal-sized paper (8.5 × 14 inches, roughly). A higher-resolution version is available on request. It might be good f [...]

Keywords: borders, decoration, victoriana, greyscale

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Added: 2012-05-20

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Blue FLoret, larger, ExampleThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

You could use this decoration as a border or as a tailpiece, perhaps. See the floret itself.

Keywords: ornaments, examples, red, blue, colour, calligraphy, decoration

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Added: 2010-05-27

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Chapter-head: Greek or Egyptian FriezeThe River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875)

This Victorian border, ornament or frieze is in the style of a frieze from a classical Greek temple, a style that was also imitated in Roman and (later) Egyptian decoration. It was printed above the s [...]

Keywords: ornaments, borders, decoration, greyscale

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Added: 2010-08-11

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Courtyard of an Egyptian HouseLa Civilizacion (1881)

This could almost be the atrium of a modern hotel, but it’s a drawing (speculatively, presumably) of an ancient Egyptian house built to surround a central courtyard that seems perhaps to have a glass [...]

Keywords: ancient egypt, interiors, people, statuary, decoration, ornament, pillars, yellow, bare feet, colour

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Added: 2018-07-18

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Plate XIV—Chinese DragonThe Art of Decorative Design (1862)

A stylized Chinese dragon flies in a blue sky between white clouds in a pattern intended i think to suggest a repeat. A DRINKING vessel preserved in the South Kensington Museum is beautified by an orn [...]

Keywords: dragons, chinese dragons, mythical creatures, clouds, decoration, colour

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Added: 2025-01-14

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Plate XXIV.—Knowledge Is PowerThe Art of Decorative Design (1862)

The example here has a slogan, Knowledge Is Power, inside a diamond filled with intricate coloured patterns. A class of decorations of a distinctive character arise from the ground being wholly covere [...]

Keywords: slogans, patterns, decoration, colour

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Added: 2025-01-14

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