Celtic and Old Norse Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive)

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Description

Artists, illustrators, designers, and craftspeople looking for exceptionally bold and inventive motifs will in finding them on this versatile treasury brimming with 125 royalty-free designs. Taken from authentic Celtic and Old Norse sources, they come with an excellent array of birds, human figures, and mythological creatures, all ingeniously woven into an intricate network of spirals and interlacings.
Meticulously adapted from artwork that graced ancient rune stones and non secular symbols, furniture, manuscripts, bronze mirrors, sword hilts, cooking utensils, and other artifacts, the illustrations depict a crucifix; decorative creatures that adorned the pages of the Lindisfarne Gospels; interwoven designs from stone crosses of Ireland, Scotland, and Cornwall; and plenty of other designs and motifs.
Convenient and affordable, this collection offers inspiration and a wealth of straight away usable dramatic ornamentation wealthy in character and distinctive in content.


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