376 Decorative Allover Patterns from Historic Tilework and Textiles

By Charles Cahier and Arthur Martin

The increased use of quality designs in 19th-century manufactured goods created a steady demand during that period for collections of decorative patterns. This volume reproduces one such collection ― an extremely rare and valuable portfolio of 376 motifs assembled more than a century ago by two French Jesuit scholars.
Relying on historical wall and floor tiles, textile patterns, tapestries, wall hangings, and other designs originating in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and later European and Islamic cultures, Charles Cahier (1807–1882) and Arthur Martin (1802–1856) produced a work of true artistic distinction. Included are a wealth of splendid floral, animal, bird, and geometric patterns, carefully researched and meticulously redrawn for use in a myriad of graphic and artistic projects. Many of the motifs are accompanied by complementary border designs, an often essential accessory.
This edition faithfully reproduces the edition published in 1868, titled Suite aux mélanges d'archéologie. It represents an invaluable copyright-free resource embodying the finest designs from historic sources, ready for use by artists, illustrators, craftspeople, and designers working with textiles, wallpapers, interior decoration, and other projects.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Release date: Oct 2, 2012
• ISBN: 9780486155494

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Copyright © 1989 by Dover Publications, Inc.

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376 Decorative Allover Patterns from Historic Tilework and Textiles, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1989, contains all the plates from Suite aux mélanges d’archéologie ... , originally published in two portfolios by A. Morel, Paris, 1868. For details, see the Publisher’s Note (based partially on the original French Préface), specially written for the present edition.

DOVER Pictorial Archive SERIES

This book belongs to the Dover Pictorial Archive Series. You may use the designs and illustrations for graphics and crafts applications, free and without special permission, provided that you include no more than ten in the same publication or project. (For permission for additional use, please write to Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501.)

However, republication or reproduction of any illustration by any other graphic service whether it be in a book or in any other design resource is strictly prohibited.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cahier, Charles, 1807—1882.

[Carrelages et tissus]

376 decorative allover patterns from historic tilework and textiles / Charles Cahier and Arthur Martin.

p. cm.—(Dover pictorial archive series)

"Contains all the plates from Suite

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