Pattern Motifs

Posted Sunday 19 November 2006 and filed under: Just Sharing

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While my 2 little girls are asleep, I thought I would quickly post up some photos from one of my latest book purchases: “Pattern Motifs: A Sourcebook” by Graham Leslie McCallum.

I originally purchased the book for inspiration and ideas on embroidery and embellishing future projects like bags and quilts. The book has over 1000 original pattern motifs and all are copyright-free images. Patterns are broken down into area of influence, e.g. “Stone Age Europe”, “Greek”, “Byzantine”, “Gothic”, “Japanese”, etc. You could literally spend hours gazing at each pattern but here are a just handful that caught my eye:

1) From the “Mesopotamia” chapter:

2) From the “Eygptian” chapter:

3) From the “Byzantine” chapter:

4) From the “Japanese” chapter:

5) From the “Art Deco” chapter:

I also bought “4000 Animal, Bird & Fish Motifs” book from the same author and will post up pictures soon. I highly recommend this book for pattern-lovers and those who are looking for some freash new ideas for embellishing their craft projects - it’s well-organised and has a wealth of inspiring patterns. It really is visual feast (with very few words!).

And if you’re interested as to where I purchased my copy, I found it on Amazon UK as it was not yet available on Amazon.com when I checked a week ago.

 

7 Comments »

  1. Comment by rhelynn — November 20, 2006 @ 9:34 am

    Those are the kind of books I love too! They can jumpstart your imagination on so many things!

    My major influences during art school were Sumerian, Mayan, Celtic and Japanese surface decoration — so elegant and yet so detailed.

  2. Comment by Kate — November 20, 2006 @ 11:04 am

    Amazing book - thanks for the sneak peak - must add it to my wish list.

  3. Comment by vera — November 20, 2006 @ 3:16 pm

    the patterns look great in the book- looking forward to seeing the birds and fish also- have been looking for something like these for a while, will definately be adding them to my wishlist :0)

  4. Comment by Coryn — November 21, 2006 @ 8:42 am

    I had to go and order that book-it looks superb. I have several design source books, and I really get my moneys worth of just looking through them-over and over.. I hadn’t seen those ones though. More lovely craft books to read in bed. Thank you for sharing.

  5. Comment by Cuteable — November 22, 2006 @ 12:37 pm

    RYC: You’re welcome Jhoanna, anytime! =)

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  7. Comment by Tiel S-K — November 28, 2006 @ 8:23 pm

    that book looks very inspiring

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