Mexican Design Motifs
Public Art, The Beacon in San Antonio, Texas
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Embroidered Effects: Projects and Patterns to Inspire Your Stitching (Sublime Stitching) $11.80 CHRONICLE BOOKS-Embroidered Effects. Embroidery renegade Jenny Hart gives her many fans what they’ve been clamoring for: New stitches; new patterns; new projects; new techniques and new transfers all in her signature style. This book includes projects that go way beyond stitching on plain cloth such as photo fabric; transfers; paper embroidery; embellishing; patterned fabric and much more. Incl… |
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Design Motifs of Ancient Mexico (Dover Pictorial Archive) $6.36 Primarily a catalog of ancient motifs contains over 760 vigorous, powerful, stark designs from pre-Columbian clay stamps made by Aztecs, Maya, Zapotecs, Toltec, Olmec, Mixtec. Depictions of serpents, gods, priests, dancers, florals, geometrics, more. Brief text identifies motif and location of origin…. |
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Maya Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive) $4.85 Over 40 beautiful renderings of Maya designs found on building facades, painted vases, designs drawn from architectural sculpture and other monumental carvings, murals, illustrated books (codexes), and miscellaneous artifacts. Brief introduction to Maya design, captions, identification of gods and legends…. |