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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Black and White Illustration of Three Roses

Three Roses Tied With Ribbon

Today I came across this really cool image of three lovely roses tied with a ribbon. It had a lot of ink from the other page transferred onto it (you could see a man's face from an ad from another page on it)...so there was a lot of cleaning up to do, especially around the ends of the stems. Hopefully I did an alright job.

Overall it is a very crisp and clear, black and white image of long stemmed roses that I think turned out quite nicely.

It was from an ad for shoes from the year 1913, that was stating that if you bought a pair you got a box of chocolates and roses (I want to shop there). The ad described the roses being given as "a bouquet of Gude Roses." I did a quick search, out of curiosity, and found a few references to "Amelia Gude roses" in some old books and newspapers, but nothing else...I guess this is a "lost" breed of roses? They probably are just known by another name now.

I think there are so many things that could be done with this particular clipart of roses. Perhaps make a romantic item for Valentine's Day, or use to make a Mother's Day gift? Either way... Enjoy!




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