Customer Reviews

Ready-to-Use Medieval Illustrations: 424 Different Copyright-Free Designs (Dover Clip Art Ready-to-Use)

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Of the Dover Books, this is one of the most interesting. The only caveat is they don't offer it with a CD like so many of their books. Highly recommend for hilighting projects. It adds alot of detail to manuscripts, music, etcetera.

Unless you happen to still paste up keyline boards and need clip art to literally "clip out", the Dover Ready-to-Use books offer less images for the price. They're printed on slick, hard paper with nothing on the back of the page. I discovered that half of the same images were available in my other Dover reference books of similar themes. The picture variety spans a broad spectrum of the Middle Ages and Renaissance with lots of etchings and the occasional celtic knot. It's a good reference, just limited.

More or less copyright free, and Dover seems to want you to use it for whatever makes sense to you. And the books are relatively inexpensive, on good paper. And they've been on sale here recently (early fall 2008)

That said, I'm not sure there's a whole lot in the way of images I can use for quilting designs here.

Which is OK too, because they are a lot of fun to browse.