Books by Carol Belanger Grafton
Valentine Message Stickers: 48 Pressure-Sensitive Designs
Heart-shaped admissions of ardor: "I’m Yours," "Hug Me," "Always," "Fool for You," "Love’s Labor Lost," "For Ever" and more.
Copies
No copies available.
Stained Glass Christmas Ornament Coloring Book (Dover Christmas Coloring Books)
This book contains over 100 Christmas ornaments done in a stained glass effect on translucent paper. The ornaments can be colored with crayons, felt-tip pens, acrylics, watercolors, tempera, or even oil paint. After you've colored them, they can be cut out and hung on your Christmas tree, on windows, from lights, or anywhere. A great way to brighten your Christmas season!
Copies
No copies available.
Old-Time Easter Stickers: 27 Full-Color Pressure-Sensitive Designs (Dover Stickers)
Ducks in Easter finery, a rabbit in a high hat, a chick emerging from an Easter egg — all are included in this treasury of 27 full-color stickers that's perfect for adding a touch of antique holiday charm to gifts, stationery, and more. Just peel and apply.
Copies
No copies available.
Authentic Designs from the American Arts and Crafts Movement (Dover Pictorial Archive)
The aesthetic achievements of the American Arts and Crafts movement, which dominated decorative arts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, have become an increasingly popular subject of study and source of inspiration for contemporary artists and designers. This beautiful book presents over 400 copyright-free designs by 80 artists whose appealing and superbly finished works clearly reflect the ideals and sensibilities of the Arts and Crafts movement.The designs have been reproduced directly from rare issues of Keramic Studio, a periodical of the era that was a major forum and showcase for the Arts and Crafts movement in America. Although most of these designs were originally created for use in pottery, a medium of consuming interest to artists and craftspersons at the turn of the century, all of them are easily adaptable to arts and crafts projects of many kinds.
Graphics designers and commercial artists will find these beautiful, copyright-free designs ideal to incorporate into a wide variety of projects. Potters, weavers, and those pursuing other arts and crafts will find in their sensuous elegance fresh inspiration for their own creative pursuits.
Copies
No copies available.
Old-Time Valentine Stickers: 23 Full Color Pressure-Sensitive Designs (Dover Stickers)
Engaging designs reproduced from rare sources include cupids, adorable children, romantic messages, more. Apply to gifts, cards, stationery, other items on a variety of special occasions: Mother's Day, weddings, anniversaries, birthdays. Includes 23 Full-Color Pressure-Sensitive Designs Dimensions: 4 1/16 x 5 3/4 Page Count: 4
Copies
No copies available.
Old-Time Christmas Stickers (Dover Stickers)
by Carol Belanger Grafton, Dover Staff
Charming illustrations, selected from turn-of-the-century sources, make up this delightfully nostalgic collection of 17 full-color holiday stickers. Ready to spread Christmas cheer are rosy-cheeked, gift-laden youngsters dressed in night-clothes, peasant outfits, and stylish winter wear; figures of Santa Claus and of Father Christmas (the character who predated the more familiar fellow); bags of toys, holly, trees, and much more.
These easy-to-apply stickers are sure to enhance Christmastime cards, envelopes, place settings, and gift packages.
Copies
No copies available.
Vintage Valentines CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Selected from authentic valentines of the early 20th century, this collection of more than 200 romantic greetings includes postcards and valentine-based die cuts of apple-cheeked children, cherubs, cupids, bouquets, and adorable animals. In addition to traditional Victorian-influenced styles, these illustrations include popular retro images that circulated in the '40s, '50s, and later.
Copies
No copies available.
Victorian Fashions A Pictorial Archive
Women's fashions during the second half of the nineteenth century offered a delightful display of styles reflecting English, French, and American tastes. This comprehensive treasury of more than 900 crisp black-and-white illustrations ― arranged chronologically and dated by year ― provides a rich pictorial record of clothing styles from that period. Suitable for a wide variety of graphic projects, these cuts will especially appeal to artists and illustrators in search of finely rendered images of authentic Victorian fashions.
Selected by graphic artist Carol Belanger Grafton from such vintage sources as Harper's Bazar, La Mode Illustrée, Peterson's Magazine, Godey's Salon de la Mode and Frank Leslie's Ladies' Magazine, the cuts brim with clear detail and old-time flavor as they record a wealth of evolving styles ― from ornate gowns of the mid-1800s, widened by hoop skirts and elaborately enhanced with ribbons, ruffles, laces, and bows, to turn-of-the-century fashions that produced leg-o'-mutton sleeves, narrowed skirts, diminished bustles, and high-necked bodices (except for evening wear, which exhibited a more daring neckline).
Here, for copyright-free use, are hundreds of elegant dresses accented with intricately embroidered designs, shirtwaists featuring lace inserts, and row upon row of tiny pleats, tightly laced undergarments, wide-brimmed hats topped with feathers, flowers, and ribbon; beaded handbags, magnificent parasols, fur-trimmed capes, and much, much more.
An invaluable reference to period clothing styles for designers, illustrators, and costume historians, this magnificent archive ― with its entertaining glimpse of the fashions of yesteryear ― will also delight casual browsers and lovers of Victoriana.
"A superb resource." — History in Review.
Copies
No copies available.