Spécimen général de la Fonderie Amsterdam (page 1/2)

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Ten-piece floral border, green and purple

This is a dainty border, so I have coloured it with pastels. I can supply it also in the original black and white, or as a GIMP XCF file with the two different colours on separate layers if you want to change the colours.

This border was originally made from ten different designes of type, repeated and arranged. I also have scans of the individual pieces.

The small wheel (at the top centre for example) marks the division: each piece of type on either side has one half of the wheel. There’s very narrow one piece visible half-way down the sides that has half of a wheel, then ome leaves, then another half-wheel. The corner pieces had a half-wheel where they meet the other pieces of type and a single wheel in the corner that’s all theirs; they are the [more...] [$]

Wide border with roses and leaves

This full-page border is wider at the bottom, giving a solid, balanced feel to the page. It includes roses and leaves, or I think they are roses at least. There’s an Art Deco feel to this border. [more...]

Lines and Leaves Page Border

This is a demonstration of how to use a repeating leaf ornament to make a border by combining it with metal rules (to draw straignt lines) and with what I take to be mushrooms in the corners. [more...]