http://artndecors.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:03:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://artndecors.com/more-creative-window-treatments-arts-crafts-for-home-decorating-s/ http://artndecors.com/more-creative-window-treatments-arts-crafts-for-home-decorating-s/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:03:22 +0000 admin http://artndecors.com/more-creative-window-treatments-arts-crafts-for-home-decorating-s/ The best just got better. We’ve updated this fantastic book to include the latest in window fashions. This revision includes some more modern window treatments such as shades, contemporary curtains, and even shoji-style screens. From selecting a window treatment to draping a swag, this companion to Creative Window Treatments covers everything readers need to know to make decorator-style window treatments themselves. Included is information on shades, curtains, top treatments, and alternative treatments such as frosted windows and screens. Over 400 color photos make it easy-to-follow.

]]> http://artndecors.com/more-creative-window-treatments-arts-crafts-for-home-decorating-s/feed/ 0 http://artndecors.com/victorian-decorative-letters-cd-rom-and-book-electronic-clip-art/ http://artndecors.com/victorian-decorative-letters-cd-rom-and-book-electronic-clip-art/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:03:21 +0000 admin http://artndecors.com/victorian-decorative-letters-cd-rom-and-book-electronic-clip-art/ Add a lavish period touch to advertisements, posters, menus — almost any graphic project — with the 865 superbly drawn, black-and-white capital letters in this lovely collection. Reproduced from authentic Victorian sources, the designs include simple, striking initials alongside more fanciful ones embellished with flowers and leaves, animals, birds, cherubs, humans, and allegorical figures.

]]> http://artndecors.com/victorian-decorative-letters-cd-rom-and-book-electronic-clip-art/feed/ 0 http://artndecors.com/art-deco-decorative-ironwork-3/ http://artndecors.com/art-deco-decorative-ironwork-3/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:03:21 +0000 admin http://artndecors.com/art-deco-decorative-ironwork-3/ Sumptuous treasury of 320 lavish examples of architectural ornamentation from the 1920s and ’30s by Paul Kiss, Raymond Subes, Edgar Brandt and other artisans. Meticulously reproduced photographs from three rare portfolios depict magnificent designs for doors, grilles, gates, lamps, balustrades, chandeliers, screens, mirrors, and other objects.

]]> http://artndecors.com/art-deco-decorative-ironwork-3/feed/ 0 http://artndecors.com/the-life-and-works-of-giorgio-giulio-clovio-miniaturist-with-notices-of-his-contemporaries-and-of-the-art-of-book-decoration-in-the-sixteenth-century/ http://artndecors.com/the-life-and-works-of-giorgio-giulio-clovio-miniaturist-with-notices-of-his-contemporaries-and-of-the-art-of-book-decoration-in-the-sixteenth-century/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:03:19 +0000 admin http://artndecors.com/the-life-and-works-of-giorgio-giulio-clovio-miniaturist-with-notices-of-his-contemporaries-and-of-the-art-of-book-decoration-in-the-sixteenth-century/ This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1891 edition by Bernard Quaritch, London.

]]> http://artndecors.com/the-life-and-works-of-giorgio-giulio-clovio-miniaturist-with-notices-of-his-contemporaries-and-of-the-art-of-book-decoration-in-the-sixteenth-century/feed/ 0 http://artndecors.com/owen-jones-decorative-borders-cd-rom-and-book-dover-electronic-clip-art/ http://artndecors.com/owen-jones-decorative-borders-cd-rom-and-book-dover-electronic-clip-art/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:03:17 +0000 admin http://artndecors.com/owen-jones-decorative-borders-cd-rom-and-book-dover-electronic-clip-art/ Creator of The Grammar of Ornament, Owen Jones ranks among the Victorian era’s most admired designers. This collection features 227 of his colorful borders, panels, and initials from The Book of Common Prayer, The Psalms of David, and Lockhart’s Spanish Ballads.

]]> http://artndecors.com/owen-jones-decorative-borders-cd-rom-and-book-dover-electronic-clip-art/feed/ 0 http://artndecors.com/decorative-floral-designs-and-motifs-cd-rom-and-book-dover-electronic-clip-art/ http://artndecors.com/decorative-floral-designs-and-motifs-cd-rom-and-book-dover-electronic-clip-art/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:03:16 +0000 admin http://artndecors.com/decorative-floral-designs-and-motifs-cd-rom-and-book-dover-electronic-clip-art/ Scores of elegant designs incorporating flowers and fruit — adapted from motifs on antique textiles — are useful for a host of applications. Floral borders, centerpieces, and allover patterns are ideal for commercial artists and designers but will also appeal to hobbyists who enjoy embroidery, designing textiles, and other crafts. 275 black-and-white illustrations.

]]> http://artndecors.com/decorative-floral-designs-and-motifs-cd-rom-and-book-dover-electronic-clip-art/feed/ 0 http://artndecors.com/the-art-of-decorative-paper-pricking/ http://artndecors.com/the-art-of-decorative-paper-pricking/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:03:15 +0000 admin http://artndecors.com/the-art-of-decorative-paper-pricking/ Janet Wilson shows how to create a stunning series of decorative pictures and cards using Victorian, Celtic and contemporary themes. Combining tracing, paper piercing, embossing, stippling, and cutwork techniques on paper, she shows how to build up borders of flowers and leaves, and how to produce delicately pierced pictures and paper lace.

]]> http://artndecors.com/the-art-of-decorative-paper-pricking/feed/ 0 http://artndecors.com/the-mehndi-kit-learn-the-traditional-art-of-henna-body-decoration/ http://artndecors.com/the-mehndi-kit-learn-the-traditional-art-of-henna-body-decoration/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:03:14 +0000 admin http://artndecors.com/the-mehndi-kit-learn-the-traditional-art-of-henna-body-decoration/ Now readers can create their own dazzling mehndi designs on themselves and their friends. Using organic, natural henna, The Mehndi Kit contains everything one needs to decorate their body as subtly as they wish or as boldly as they dare. Unlike tattoos, mehndi is temporary and will fade away within one to six weeks of application. And no artistic talent is needed–anyone who can draw a squiggly line or write a name can become a mehndi artist.

]]> http://artndecors.com/the-mehndi-kit-learn-the-traditional-art-of-henna-body-decoration/feed/ 0 http://artndecors.com/the-decoration-of-houses-the-classical-america-series-in-art-and-architecture/ http://artndecors.com/the-decoration-of-houses-the-classical-america-series-in-art-and-architecture/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:03:13 +0000 admin http://artndecors.com/the-decoration-of-houses-the-classical-america-series-in-art-and-architecture/ European 18th and 19th century architecture and decoration are discussed and contrasted with modern concepts in this detailed study which is chock-full of “do’s” and “don’ts”. Four 90-minute cassettes.

]]> http://artndecors.com/the-decoration-of-houses-the-classical-america-series-in-art-and-architecture/feed/ 0 http://artndecors.com/art-nouveau-decorative-ironwork/ http://artndecors.com/art-nouveau-decorative-ironwork/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:03:12 +0000 admin http://artndecors.com/art-nouveau-decorative-ironwork/ Full range of Art Nouveau ironwork. 137 photographic illustrations of railings, gates, balconies, doorways, staircases, more.

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