Items matching foliated borders (results page 1)

Vintage endpaper border with flowering vineNorthland Journeys, Part I (1881)

This elegant border is taken from the endpapers of a deluxe printed book from 1881. It features stylized flowers and seed pods on a vine. The middle is solid white; if you want to ake it transparent i [...]

Keywords: full-page borders, borders, floriated borders, foliated borders, good, yellow, colour

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Added: 2025-04-27

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Title Page, Kelmscott ChaucerThe Works of Geoffrey Chaucer [William Morris, Kelmscott Press] (1896)

The title page from the Kelmscott edition of the works of Chaucer is, unusually, printed on a verso (i.e. the left-hand page of a double-page opening), which is why the outer border is wider on the le [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, borders, arts and crafts, arts and crafts movement, foliated borders, leaves, vines, william morris, greyscale

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Added: 2018-09-08

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Full-page arts and craft movement borderThe Works of Geoffrey Chaucer [William Morris, Kelmscott Press] (1896)

This ful-page border, frame, or surround is made with an intricate design of grape leaves and swirling vines and includes bunches of grapes. It’s taken from the title page of the William Morris editio [...]

Keywords: foliated borders, borders, arts and crafts movement, arts and crafts, grapevines, grapes, vines, leaves, surrounds, frames, full-page borders, greyscale

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Added: 2018-09-08

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Full-page holly and ivy border, US Letter sizedThe Circling Year (1870)

This leafy border features ivy with some holly thwoen in for good measure: it’d be great at Christmas but could be used at other times too. It surrounds the titlepage of the book. This version is prop [...]

Keywords: borders, xmas, christmas, foliated borders, vinles, leaves, full page, surrounds, frames, greyscale

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Added: 2018-02-20

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Chapter-head with cherubs, flowers, vines and birdsIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

This chapter-head was above the start of the first chapter in the book. There’s flowers (marigolds?) both open and closed, leaves, and two naked children (putti or cherubs) each holding a string of fl [...]

Keywords: chapterheads, borders, cherubs, putti, flowers, roses, marigolds, foliated borders, floriated borders, inhabited borders, vines, romance, greyscale

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Added: 2019-01-21

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Dark brown fantasy watercolour borderArthur Rackham, His Life and Work (1960)

This border of symbols, grapes, eyes, and dark daisies, was painted by Arthur Rackham to surround the battle of giants.

Keywords: borders, colour, floriated borders, foliated borders, spooky, full-page borders

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Added: 2024-09-23

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70.—Border of cherubs climbing in treesDie Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

A bold arched frame for text, with an empty shield beneath it supported by two putti or cherubs; other cherubs climb the lifeless trees which are laden with grapevines. A cherub at upper left defends [...]

Keywords: full-page borders, borders, cherubs, putti, nudity, bare feet, boys, vines, inhabited borders, foliated borders, monkeys, early printing, greyscale

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Added: 2025-05-10

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892.—Oval Frame With Leafy BranchesNew Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

This oval frame has two different kinds of branch, with leaves, on either side, and a ribbon on the top. I could not identify the leaves. I have coloured the image; the original was printed in solid b [...]

Keywords: frames, oval, cartici, borders, leaves, foliated borders, colour

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Added: 2015-09-18

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Rustic floral border with trellis and grapevinesGreat Races of Mankind Vol III (1893)

This border originally contained an engraving of a young Swiss woman. It features grapes and vines, and wooden poles forming a trellis to support the grapevines.

Keywords: foliated borders, borders, grapes, grapevines, vineyards, greyscale

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Added: 2024-08-24

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Foliated chapterhead with dragonsParis Avant l’Histoire (1885)

This fleuron or chapterhead is at the start of part III of the novel. It has four dragon’s heads with barbed tongues in a symmetrical pattern, surrounded by leaves perhaps like clover.

Keywords: dragons, mythical creatures, chapterheads, patterns, foliated borders, greyscale

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Added: 2014-01-21

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Full-page border with tiny vintage laurel leaves and hand-drawn boxAstrology (1806)

This full-page border comes from an engraving, so it’s slightly irregular, but only slightly, almost hand-drawn in effect. It’s made from a thin straight line around the page and, inside it, repeating [...]

Keywords: borders, foliated borders, full-page borders, colour

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Added: 2018-07-24

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Full-page border with ivyBible Symbols (1908)

You could think of this border as depicting a rectangle of metal rods with ivy growing along them. It’s Edwardian, just two years after the death of Queen Victoria, but it’s also timeless.

Keywords: borders, ivy, foliated borders, full page, greyscale

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Added: 2017-11-12

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Full-page brown and green border with ivy creeperBible Symbols (1908)

This border looks like it’s made of wooden rods with ivy growing around it. The illusion is made stronger by the brown and green colouring.

See also the Original black-and-white image.

Keywords: borders, ivy, rustic, full page, foliated borders, colour

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Added: 2017-11-14

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Ten-piece floral border, green and purpleSpécimen général de la Fonderie Amsterdam (1915)

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 t [...]

Keywords: borders, foliated borders, colour, green, full-page borders, delicate borders, romance, christmas, xmas

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Added: 2018-08-25

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Full-page border of repeated vine leavesSpécimen général de la Fonderie Amsterdam (1915)

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 piec [...]

Keywords: borders, foliated borders, full-page borders, spring, leaves, vines, grapes, greyscale

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Added: 2024-11-30

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Wide border with roses and leavesSpécimen général de la Fonderie Amsterdam (1915)

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.

Keywords: borders, floriated borders, foliated borders, full-page borders, greyscale

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Added: 2018-08-28

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Lines and Leaves Page BorderSpécimen général de la Fonderie Amsterdam (1915)

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. The repr [...]

Keywords: borders, leaves, colour, green, foliated borders, full-page borders

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Added: 2014-03-11

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Decorative Border With Christian SaintsImitation of Christ (1855)

I’m not able to identify the people depicted in this border; we have Jesus and a Queen, but we also have people spreading incense and we have the devil, horned, barefoot, and doing acrobatics. There a [...]

Keywords: christianity, borders, foliated borders, people, christmas, xmas, greyscale

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Added: 2016-10-02

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Art Nouveau Border with ivy leaves and face.Jugend [German art magazine] (1903)

This border in green and brown features a the head of young man with a slightly puzzled smile, ivy leaves, perhaps a halo, and stylized rectangular vines. It originally surrounded a German poem, “Amer [...]

Keywords: borders, foliated borders, people, faces, hair, eyes, ivy, colour, frames, cartici, full-page borders

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Added: 2019-01-18

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Atrolabe: scientist and boyThe Works of Geoffrey Chaucer [William Morris, Kelmscott Press] (1896)

This illustration, surrounded by a leafy border inspired by medieval and early printed books, shows a man holding a robe and with sixteenth-century or earlier style courtly footwear and hat, standing [...]

Keywords: borders, foliated borders, castles, astrolabes, scientific instruments, medieval costumes, men, boys, people, roofs, battlements, chaucer, greyscale

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Added: 2023-01-14

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