Islamic Designs in Color$18.95 By N. Simakoff. Over 160 rich, sumptuous designs, reproduced from rare 19th-century edition, provide beautiful examples of the sophisticated geometry of Islamic design. Copyright-free motifs drawn from carpets, tiles, carved wood, plates, jewelry, decorative painting of buildings and furnishings, metalwork, jewelry, more. Geometrics, florals and other designs in many sizes and shapes; rich selection of borders. 68 pages, 9-1/4" x 12-1/4". [ Add to Cart] [ View Cart] |
Natural Art Forms$15.95 By Karl Blossfeldt. Using innovative techniques, photographer Karl Blossfeldt produced arresting images of seed pods, buds, stems, and other botanical items. This spectacular collection features scores of his remarkable photographs of plant life, offering artists and craftspeople a treasury of copyright-free pictures and design inspirations. 120 full-page black-and-white plates. 128 pages, 8-3/8" x 11-1/4". [ Add to Cart] [ View Cart] |
Snow Crystals$19.95 This book the remarkable and fascinating work of W.A. Bentley, with over 2,000 photomicrographs of snowflakes, plus slides of frost, rime, glaze, dew and hail. Introduction by meteorologist W. J. Humphreys discusses techniques of photographing snow crystals, science of crystallography, classification and markings. Paperback, 8" x 10 1/4". 226 pages. [ Add to Cart] [ View Cart] |
Art Forms in Nature$14.95 Ernst Heinrich Haeckel (1834-1919) created marvelous renderings of natural forms that have become famous as works of art. A multiude of strangely beautiful natural forms are depicted here: Radiolaria, Foraminifera, jellyfishes, fungi, turtles, bats, etc. Paperback, 9 3/8" x 12 1/4". 100 pages. [ Add to Cart] [ View Cart] |
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