Decoration and ornament books

Rambles of an archæologist among old books and in old places: Being papers on art, in relation to archæology, painting, art-decoration, and art-manufacture

F. W. Fairholt

Frederick William Fairholt’s Rambles of an archæologist among old books and in old places is a scholarly…

Line and Form (1900)

Walter Crane

Line and Form is a practical treatise on drawing and decorative design, originally delivered as a series of…

The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources

Anonymous

The Ladies’ Book of Useful Information presents itself as a single‑volume handbook aimed specifically at…

Evolution in Art: As Illustrated by the Life-histories of Designs

Alfred C. Haddon

Alfred C. Haddon’s Evolution in Art is a scholarly survey of decorative motifs, especially those of the…

The Two Paths

John Ruskin

Design and Tradition A short account of the principles and historic development of architecture and the applied arts

Amor Fenn

Principles of decorative design

Christopher Dresser

Industrial Arts Design A Textbook of Practical Methods for Students, Teachers, and Craftsmen

William H. Varnum

The Bases of Design

Walter Crane

The Principles of Ornament

James Ward

Jacquard Weaving and Designing

T. F. Bell

Architecture and Democracy

Claude Fayette Bragdon

A Study of the Textile Art in Its Relation to the Development of Form and Ornament Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-'85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, (pages 189-252)

William Henry Holmes

The Book of Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Medieval, from the Eighth Century With Numerals, including Gothic; Church Text, Large and Small; German Arabesque; Initials for Illumination, Monograms, Crosses, &c.

F. Delamotte

Sixth annual report of the Bureau of ethnology. (1888 N 06 / 1884-1885)

Colour Decoration of Architecture

James Ward

The claims of decorative art

Walter Crane

Gift Card Designing

Pedro J. Lemos