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This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

Chinese Textiles moves through the centuries highlighting the motifs of luxurious courtly robes, floral silks intended for the export market, and even the tongue-in-cheek patterns of Vivienne Tam.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

Digital Pioneers showcases the work of post-war designers and artists using new technology to create images of unexpected purity in their natural patterning, symmetry and order. Artists featured include Ben Laposky, Herbert Franke, Charles Csuri and Paul Brown.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

Garden Florals showcases textiles and wallpapers that depict motifs derived from the natural world - the selection is mostly British and from the period 1880-1910. Artists and designers featured include William Morris, Walter Crane, C.F.A Voysey and Lewis Foreman Day.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

Published to celebrate British Design at the V&A, Heal's showcases the mid-twentieth century fabrics of this retail institution as commissioned by director and visionary Tom Worthington.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

Indian Florals showcases the patterns derived from plants and flowers found in Indian textiles, ranging from bed covers and carpets to saris and sashes.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

Published to celebrate British Design at the V&A, Liberty & Co. charts the development of a legendary company through its textile designs, from its beginnings in the Aesthetic movement, through Art Nouveau and into the late twentieth century.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

Published to celebrate British Design at the V&A, Modern British Designers traces the past 50 years of creative genius and innovation in British design, highlighting such designers as Terence Conran, Zandra Rhodes and Shirley Craven.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

Pop Patterns showcases Warhol's influence on commercial design in the 1970s when soup cans, lipsticks, and even men's haircuts graced dress fabrics and wallpapers.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

Published to celebrate British Design at the V&A, Sanderson 1954-74 showcases the wallpapers and textiles of this most British of manufacturers.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

Spitalfields Silks displays delightful floral designs alongside quirky, strikingly modern silks, all produced in eighteenth-century London.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

The Fifties showcases the work of some of the most dynamic artists, designers and manufacturers of the 1950s from the V&A's textile and wallpaper collections. The artists and designers highlighted include Lucienne Day, Joan Miro, Jacqueline Groag, Tom Mellors and Frank Lloyd Wright.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

Walter Crane was a key designer of the Aesthetic movement, incorporating swans, bulrushes, fairy tales, English patriotism, and more into his diverse patterns.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

William Morris showcases the work of William Morris and Morris & Co. These popular repeating patterns possess a timeless quality and have a modern appeal surprising in work created over 120 years ago.

More than 160 exquisitely rendered color illustrations offer a fabulous array of decorative borders and panels in a tremendous variety of styles: Byzantine, Roman, Gothic, Renaissance, Louis XIV, and other historical fashions.

Many of these enchanting images are drawn from Christopher Dresser's Studies in Design, a landmark in home-decorating stylebooks. Dresser's compilations of unusual designs from far-flung sources - including Egypt, Morocco, and the Far East - exercised an enormous influence upon his Victorian contemporaries and subsequent generations. Images from his book, together with selections from a nineteenth-century French album and other pictorial collections of the era, afford a wealth of delights for art enthusiasts as well as inspiration for designers and crafters.

Dover original selection from Album du Peintre en Bâtiment, N. Glaise, Ducher et Cie, Paris, 1885, and Studies in Design, Christopher Dresser, Cassell, Peter and Galpin, London, 1876.

The continual demand among graphic artists for floral and botanical illustrations, combined with the perennial popularity of the Victorian style, have inspired this practical royalty-free collection. Artist Carol Belanger Grafton has selected 344 handsome and botanically accurate wood engravings from two notable botanical classics: Paxton's Flower Garden by John Lindley and Sir Joseph Paxton, 1850–53; and The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and

Distribution by Anton Kerner von Marilaun and F. W. Oliver, 1902.
Illustrations include exquisitely detailed renderings of flowers and other plant features of exotic specimens from around the world: passionflower, baobab, spider lily, hop, quaking grass, mourning cypress, American mangrove, wayfaring tree, Christmas rose, Indian rhododendron, false indigo, winged pea, Persian walnut. cat's-claw mimosa, Bhutan cypress, and many more.

The engravings encompass a broad spectrum of plant forms: trees, shrubs, aquatic and climbing plants, evergreens, vines, brushes, herbs, various perennials, and others. Orchids are especially well represented; over 10 percent of the illustrations in this volume depict orchids. Each illustration is accompanied by an identifying caption that provides the scientific name and a brief description of the plant, its native region, and if it is a flower, the coloration of the blossoms.
The clarity and accuracy of these engravings is striking; they are well-suited to reproduction for almost any graphic purpose. Moreover, all illlustrations are royalty-free; no prior permission or fee is required for their use.

Invaluable to graphic artists in need of a comprehensive archive of unusual floral illustrations, this versatile reference will delight botanists, naturalists, flower lovers, and any admirer of exotic plants that are depicted with the meticulous clarity and detail of fine engravings.