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Add a professional touch to menus, ads, and other food related announcements with skillfully rendered illustrations of delectable dishes, handsome table settings and other items of culinary interest. Includes 270 copyright-free spots of entrees, tureens of vegetables, pasta and seafood platters, salads, breads, pastries, and much more.
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Illustrated foods great for projects
Seller came through prompt and book was in very good condition.

I love love love the pictures for my purpose.So happy to have it. ... Read more

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Outstanding collection of over 400 designs and illustrations, selected from authentic sources of medieval and Gothic ornamentation, includes woodcuts of human figures and walled cities, images of fanciful beasts and creatures of the sea and air, drawings of turreted castles, knights in armor, and much more. Perfect for adding a rich period flavor to catalogs, brochures, magazine articles and other print projects, this copyright-free material will also serve as a practical sourcebook for a host of art and craft projects.
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Great reference, small variety
Unless you happen to still paste up keyline boards and need clip art to literally "clip out", the Dover Ready-to-Use books offer less images for the price. They're printed on slick, hard paper with nothing on the back of the page. I discovered that half of the same images were available in my other Dover reference books of similar themes. The picture variety spans a broad spectrum of the Middle Ages and Renaissance with lots of etchings and the occasional celtic knot. It's a good reference, just limited.

I love Dover clip art books
More or less copyright free, and Dover seems to want you to use it for whatever makes sense to you.And the books are relatively inexpensive, on good paper. And they've been on sale here recently (early fall 2008)

That said, I'm not sure there's a whole lot in the way of images I can use for quilting designs here.

Which is OK too, because they are a lot of fun to browse.

Clip Art
Of the Dover Books, this is one of the most interesting.The only caveat is they don't offer it with a CD like so many of their books.Highly recommend for hilighting projects.It adds alot of detail to manuscripts, music, etcetera. ... Read more

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Rich compendium of 381 copyright-free illustrations selected from rare 19th- and early 20th-century sources. Cats alone, in groups, with children, in costumes, playing cards, catching mice, singing in a choir, running, jumping, more. Add a note of antique feline charm to almost any art or craft project.
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inexpensive artists' reference
I bought this book as an inexpensive, handy artists' reference on cats. I'm very happy with it. The book's title, front cover designs, and back cover description do a good job of telling you what to expect. It definitely answers my need for permission-free art to help me do my own cat sketching and painting.I could tell right away I'd found a treasure-trove, and with 381 designs I know I will be using the book for a long time! I thought I would be mainly interested in the realistic styles - for the fur detail, perspective, anatomy, etc. - but quickly became inspired by the whimsical, cartoony, and sketchy moods /styles, too. This is a beautiful,useful book. A real creativity booster, and fun to just look at! ... Read more

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Realistic illustrations of horses, riders, equestrian gear, and activities associated with horses abound in this handsome collection of crisp, immediately usable drawings. Images include horses being ridden, raced, harnessed, groomed, trained, and otherwise attended, plus accurate depictions of saddles, trailers, bridles, stalls, horseshoes, training equipment, and much more. Ideal for use in signs, posters, and announcements as well as in advertising and catalog copy.
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Over 280 graceful motifs selected from rare sources. Sensuous Art Nouveau motifs, Victorian floral and foliate designs, geometrics, scrollwork, ribbonlike swirls, pictorial borders and more. Inexpensive and copyright-free, these convenient devices are ideal for enclosing and enhancing small advertisements, labels, catalog copy and more.
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Paper Trees is a unique collection of hand-drawn family trees and charts which you can fill in and color by yourself. All of these beautiful designs are original, and they are available as clip-art for use as cards, announcements, book covers, section dividers, reunion T-shirts and mugs, newsletter designs, research aids, or for any of a thousand other things.

Filled in by hand, calligraphy, or type, and hand-colored in pen or paint, each of these family trees is guaranteed to be unique, and each illustration--whether elegant, whimsical, or just plain folksy--is a joyful celebration of your family. Uses for it are limited only by your imagination. You can photo-reduce the family trees for use as note cards and stationery, or you can enlarge them to show family detail at its optimum. Remember that each of these family trees is an ancestral tree. The tree starts with you, and each generation back doubles in size, showing two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, etc. You'll have a great time with these illustrations, and you can pass them on finished or unfinished, to be treasured as keepsakes or to be embellished and completed by others. ... Read more

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Over 180 charming copyright-free motifs for use in advertising, book and magazine illustration, many other graphic projects. Dancing ducks, prancing pigs, chirping chicks, other familiar fauna rendered with gentle humor and eye-catching appeal. Many illustrations also include mortised cuts—blank space for ad copy or other printed matter.
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I have a special project I'm doing and found it so helpful not to have to draw everything myself.
If this book fits your needs, you'll love the pictures.They are cute and I am really anxious to get going and use them for my purpose. ... Read more

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Affordable copyright-free collection of elegant borders and ornamental frames in perennially popular style will surround your advertisements, menus, invitations with the sensuality they deserve. Choose from 315 shapes and sizes—circles, squares, oblongs and more—on repro-quality paper for immediate use. 315 black-and-white illustrations.
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Beautiful illustrations
I scanned the favs in to make stamps for silver art clay jewelry, just love all the designs. Slick pages, dark black. Very happy with this purchase. ... Read more

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How often do illustrators, artists and commercial designers need a "pretty face"—an attractive, appealing portrait of a woman? Here are 312 new designs in sharp black-and-white on one side of a page, ready-to-use and copyright-free, of women’s heads: women talking, laughing, working, making up, playing and just being contemporary. Many frames, borders, mirror-repetitions and different sizes of the same design.
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Is okay, but....
This is okay, but it is also very stylized. Very 70's, which is not easy to use, or even that useful.

hours of fun
i bought this book on a whim, and consequently spent hours in front of the Xerox machine making my own stationery with it!Lots of neat/"retro"/wacky/elegant black-and-white illustrations of, you guessed it, women's heads.Very stylized.Tons to choose from.A+!! ... Read more

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Stunning array of flowers, fruits, birds and patterns with a distinctively Oriental flair offer artists, illustrators, desktop publishers and other producers of printed materials exotic images with a Far Eastern touch. Designs of a panda in a stand of bamboo, a peacock amid some foliage, a ming tree silhouetted against a pagoda-dotted landscape, and much more can be used as they are, scannedinto a PC, or adapted in a number of other ways—all permission-free.
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Oriental patterns
Booklet full of oriental designs.It is perfect for what I want.I wanted patterns that could be implemented in the backgrounds of my scrapbooking of our trips to China. ... Read more

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A handy resource for Sunday school teachers, church school leaders, and DVBS workers. Ready to copy children's bulletins, Puzzles, Mazes, Fill-in-the-blank, word search, Hidden objects, several covers feature stories of Abraham, Ruth, Joseph, unique covers for church holidays. Guidelines for preparing bulletins for various age groups are included. Hints for beginners take the mystery and apprehension out of preparing weekly bulletins. ... Read more

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Bulletin Topical Convenience
This book is an excellent choice for anyone who is implementing activities for church youth.The author has made it convenient in that you can copy 2 pages and have a 4 half page-front back document for children, that couldbe separate from your regular weekly bulletins for adults.However, ifmost parishes/congregations are like mine, the adults look forward to theseactivities also, and these bulletins can be placed in the mid-section ofyour bulletin book, or one puzzle can be inserted (cut-paste). There area variety of different puzzles, not just word search, mazes, etc. I trulylove this book. ... Read more

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Learn to use HTML through on-line templates and clip-art rather than reading book after book. This multi-platform CD-ROM is an on-line tutorial that covers the information necessary to create home-pages, graphics and music, use HTML editors and converters, and design forms. General instructions for HTML including style, anchors, images, bookmarks, and debugging. Includes design templates for forms, worksheets, questionnaires, Web browsing tools for Mosaic and Netscape, and multi-platform CD runs on Windows or Mac. Graphics tools include logo-maker, thumbnailing, interlaced GIFs, shadows and more. Also includes many Clip art collections. It is aimed at all levels of professionals and programmers interested in stereogram applications (also called Single Image Random Dot Stereograms), graphics and advertising professionals, artists, electrical engineers, and is also appropriate for courses in computer graphics. ... Read more

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Outstanding Resource and Reference
An excellent guide for the beginner or amatuer producer looking for some sources and a basic guide to techniques for making cards, posters, or anything on which they want to use public domain art -- a wonderful source of material to make your own coloring books for the children!Table of Contents / Subject Index / Section I consists of 1011 black and white drawings ready to scan or copy and use as is or color in, organized topically in 14 categories:National and Religious Holidays; Social and Commercial Announcements; Sports and Leisure Time Activities; Foods and the Culinary Arts; Circuses and Carnivals; School and Education; Trades and Professions; Flowers, Plants and Gardening; Antiques and Nostalgia; Toys; Travel and Geographic Landmarks; The Performing Arts; Pictorial Representation of Abstract Concepts; and Potpourri / Section II:1. Supplies and Equipment; 2. About Lettering and Typography; 3. Layout and Composition; 4. Notes on Commercial Printing Processes; 5. Methods of Copying and Transferring Artwork; 6. Preparing Paste-Ups and Mechanicals; 7. Technical Shortcuts; 8. Studio Tips / Glossary of Terms Used in Art and Advertising / Publishers and Suppliers of Ready-to-use Art for the Trade / Metric Conversion Factors.Pages 287 and 288 have some sample title texts that can also be used. ... Read more