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Editorial Review Product Description
Woodworkers, quilters, glass painters, and other artisans will welcome this awe-inspiring collection of motifs. Thousands of choices—all suitable for reducing or enlarging—range from simple interlacings, braidings, and basket weaves to intricate tartan, paisley, art deco, and arabesque patterns. Varied and beautiful, they also take inspiration from a variety of cultures and historical periods, including ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Celtic, Gothic, and Chinese, as well as contemporary Islamic, African, Asian, Indian, Native American, and Aboriginal. A special topical index makes it quick and easy to locate a desired mood or difficulty level from all the available designs. Author Graham McCallum’s fine draftsmanship makes this large resource an essential addition to the library of every designer and crafter. Customer Reviews (7) 
Great for inspiration
I am a fiber artist and enjoy creating with fabric. Just looking thru the book inspires me and carries me onto new and different ideas.The size of the book reinforces the idea that creativity is endless!
Good source of ideas
This is a great book for helping generate your own ideas for designs. One reviewer was disappointed that the designs are copyrighted and cannot be used for commercial purposes. Since I am trying to create some designs for possible commercial use, I am using the book only as a source for ideas, that is a "jumping off" place to make an interesting design of my own, without infringing on the copyright. I think this book is a great source of ideas for your own creations, as well as providing designs straight from the pages for personal use. As long as you keep in mind that all the designs are hand drawn and in black and white, and you either want to use the designs in your personal creations or as an inspiration to create new designs, in my opinion you will not be disappointed.
Pattern motifs
I purchased this book for art ideas, and there are a lot of motifs in here.Unfortunately,many of the designs do not appeal to ME, so I had to give it 3 stars and that is the only reason.Others might like more of the designs than I do.I wish this book had the "look inside" feature.
Patters of Motifs
Excellant book of patterns, As a artistyou will be very pleased with the detail and the ease it is to use these patterns, In crafts also.
Anything that you need with a light box and a pattern to place.
This is a series of book by this author, All of them are a musthave for a sourcebook of your arts and crafts.
Sorely disappointed
While the drawings in this book are beautiful, I cannot use this book at all.The back cover states that the images are copyright-free, but the copyright inside the book states otherwise.I e-mailed the publisher and was told that I could only use the images for personal use, not commercial use.As I had purchased this book to create digital scrapbooking supplies to either sell in an on-line store or give away for free, I needed the images for commercial use.I am very disappointed in this because the images are indeed wonderful.If you want this book for personal use, go for it.But if you plan using it for any sort of commercial work, I do not recommend it.
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