Pretty Art Nouveau Floral Border

Here is a pretty floral border in an art nouveau style. The flowers themselves look kind of like morning glories to me, but the leaves and branches with thorns seem more like roses, so I am guessing that they are stylistic roses. The image in the original was mirrored on the other side of some text. It could be rotated so that it was on top or bottom, rather than the side (which I think might look nice because of that arch area in the center). In fact, I should have done that, but didn't think about it until I started writing this. If rotated this would be nice as a header for an invitation, letterhead, announcement, etc.




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Roses Frame Public Domain Image

I found this really cool frame with roses around it tonight and quickly cleaned it up so I could publish it on this blog. It comes from a newspaper from the year 1914. So it's sort of an early art deco style I think?

I love how crisp and bold the lines are.

I made this a png image with the center of the circle frame transparent and the parts around and between the leaves transparent too, while the leaves and the roses themselves are white. This could be left as is, or colored in so many ways.




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Weird Wednesday: Periscope Hat

I like to call this the Vixen Starlet Steampunk Periscope Top Hat--because the way she is drawn reminds me of a silent film star, and the star on the periscope makes me think Hollywood glamour "star" too. But of course the periscope and the top hat makes me think of "steampunk."

This wacky fashion statement comes from a 1915 newspaper. The article claims appearances of this fancy hat had been made in New York and Chicago. It explains the style and its use this way, "A tiny mirror is tucked at an attractive and innocent angle in the bonnet so it reflects the actions of pedestrians behind the wearer." And would be used to avoid unwanted male attention, should some chap come up behind the lady looking like he wanted to flirt. I think there are much more interesting uses for it than that though.






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