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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Vintage Patterns: Adult Coloring Book: 44 beautiful nature-inspired vintage patterns from the Victorian & Edwardian eras

Vintage Patterns: Adult Coloring Book: 44 beautiful nature-inspired vintage patterns from the Victorian & Edwardian eras

Click Americana
Price, Nancy J.

Paperback

Coloring & Activity Books

ISBN10: 1944633030
ISBN13: 9781944633035
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Jan 17 2016
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.21 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
A collection of antique embroidery patterns for sewing and needlework hobbyists!

Some of the most timeless and captivating artwork in the world is inspired by nature - and that's as true today as it was 150 years ago.

The vintage patterns in this book, made over the course of more than sixty years, show how graceful line drawings of flowers and other natural wonders can be enhanced by lines, repetition and symmetry.

Until just a few generations ago, everyday items and clothes were regularly decorated with fancy stitchery. For creative inspiration, they turned to the newspapers and magazines of the day. By combing through print archives from the 1850s through the 1910s, we found dozens of antique embroidery and sewing patterns in Victorian and Edwardian styles - featuring floral motifs, leaves and vines, flourishes and combinations thereof.

Most of these vintage designs were intended to provide suggestions for embroidery or other needlework to adorn clothing and linens, or to for the kind of knicknacks people desired long ago. We wanted to restore these antique graphics and create from them coloring pages that would appeal to hobbyists and artists today.

No matter their purpose in the past, these carefully-curated antique drawings deserve to be appreciated in the here and now... and with your help, they will!

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