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Authentic art from the pages of vintage books

Real history, ready for your machine. 21,503 files, most of them traced from vintage books, waiting to be engraved, cut into inlay or layered art, or 3D printed.

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3,306 pieces came in during October 2026.

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Ready to personalize

Blank labels, borders, typefaces and artwork already prepared for engraving or printing. Add a name, date or message and make it yours.

2,992 piecesSupporter

Personalize a Design

Blank labels, frames, monograms and flourishes to combine with your own words.

14,658 piecesSupporter

Monochrome vector SVG files

Monochrome historical vector art, it cuts, scores and engraves, and it prints too.

3,700 piecesSupporter

Coloured vector SVG files

Lifted from the page of historical books. Flat-colour vectors, for printing and layered art.

422 fontsFree

Typefaces and fonts

Alphabets cut back out of scanned lettering books, ready for any tool that sets text.

The everyday, beautifully drawn

Browse the kitchen, garden, workshop and people: the familiar subjects customers ask for on gifts, signs and packaging.

3,910 piecesSupporter

Kitchen and Table

Produce, herbs, utensils, labels and tableware for gifts, packaging and kitchen projects.

3,720 piecesSupporter

Botanicals

Flowers, ferns, herbs and fungi, from the plates that recorded them for study rather than decoration.

1,537 piecesSupporter

Machines and Instruments

Gears, engines, carriages, calipers and airships, from the plates where every part is drawn as clean line.

968 piecesSupporter

People and Portraits

Figures, faces, clothing and hands from historical illustrations and colour plates.

1,685 piecesSupporter

Everyday and Objects

Plain modern subjects, the furnished world and the paper that goes with it: animals, food, frames, chairs, clocks, stamps and labels.

Around the house and shop

Door hardware, weathervanes, clocks, toys and the printer's little stock cuts, out of the trade catalogues of the 1870s to the 1900s.

451 piecesSupporter

Around the House

The knocker on the front door, the key in the lock, the clock on the mantel and the moulds in the kitchen, from the trade catalogues a Victorian house was furnished from.

578 piecesSupporter

Vintage Tech and Clockwork

Telephones, dynamos and bellows cameras, and the small turning world inside a pocket watch.

160 piecesSupporter

Toys, Games and Music

Rocking horses and dolls, a conjuror's cups and balls, and the instruments of the parlour and the bandstand.

1,493 piecesSupporter

The Print Shop and the Pen

Pointing hands and printers' flowers from the type founders, beside the swans and capitals a writing master drew without lifting the pen.

Nature and places

Animals, the sea, the sky and historic buildings: clear subjects with room to find something more specific inside.

5,080 piecesSupporter

Animals and Wildlife

Birds, insects, shells and beasts, drawn from natural history engravings and hand-coloured plates.

1,613 piecesSupporter

Nautical and Maritime

Anchors, compass roses, rigging, knots and signal flags, from maritime handbooks and flag charts.

2,271 piecesSupporter

Celestial and Occult

Moon phases, zodiac figures, sigils and star charts, engraved when astronomy and magic shared a shelf.

1,999 piecesSupporter

Architecture and Antiquity

Tracery, columns, arches, vases and excavated relief, measured from real buildings and dig reports.

The finishing details

Frames, flourishes, lettering, repeat patterns and tiny marks that turn a plain object into a finished design.

3,454 piecesSupporter

Frames and Borders

The furniture of a printed page: cartouches, corners, rules, ribbons and the frames they build.

3,471 piecesSupporter

Lettering and Borders

Initials, monograms, frames, cartouches, labels and printed verse to run around the rest of the work.

529 piecesFree

Seamless Panels

Squares that repeat edge to edge with no seam, split by motif: the pattern engine's own tiling, stopped at a whole number of repeats and trimmed to the square.

2,538 piecesFree

Micrographics

Serial plates, dials, barcodes, reticles, seals and tick scales, split by subject: small technical graphics, drawn as clean line rather than traced from a plate.

Anatomy, mystery and the macabre

Skulls, skeletons, crows, specimens and old curiosities, gathered into trails you can recognize at a glance.

1,640 piecesSupporter

Anatomy and the Macabre

Bones, medical studies, skulls, death emblems and the darker side of historical art.

1,671 piecesSupporter

Gothic and Macabre

Tracery, crosses, ravens, skulls and pointed arches, for high-contrast work with a shadow on it.

2,627 piecesSupporter

Dark Academia

Anatomy, moths, lettering and instruments drawn together into one studious, shadowed look.

3,490 piecesSupporter

Apothecary

Herbals, retorts, phials and remedies, from Culpeper and Blackwell through to laboratory glass.

Historic styles and traditions

Heraldry, legendary creatures, Japanese designs and Chinese ornament, with their own places to explore.

4,705 piecesSupporter

Medieval and Heraldic

Dragons, knights, knotwork and coats of arms, from manuscripts, armorials and carved stone.

3,420 piecesSupporter

Mythic Beasts

Dragons, serpents, legendary animals and heraldic creatures from old stories.

1,560 piecesSupporter

Japanese Art

Japanese motifs, illustrated figures, crests and colour prints gathered in one clear path.

256 piecesSupporter

Chinese Art

Chinese ornament, historic motifs, seals and colour plates in their own collection path.

Made for a moment

Romantic gifts, winter keepsakes, Halloween designs and decorative Art Nouveau pieces for special projects.

4,098 piecesSupporter

Romantic

Roses, hearts, ribbons, cherubs and garlands, for the sentimental end of the catalogue.

4,489 piecesSupporter

Christmas

Holly, mistletoe, fir, snowflakes, bells and wreaths, from ornament books and seasonal engravings.

1,659 piecesSupporter

Halloween

Pumpkins, bats, owls, ravens and skulls, pulled from every macabre corner of the library.

1,254 piecesSupporter

Art Nouveau

Whiplash florals, monogram panels and sinuous borders, drawn when the line was the whole point.

Storybook worlds

Find the animals, objects and enchanted details that bring familiar tales to life.

2,529 piecesSupporter

Grimm Creatures

Wolves, ravens, foxes, bears, frogs and legendary beasts from the fairy-tale forest.

953 piecesSupporter

Alice Objects

Keys, watches, cards, mushrooms, crowns and curious things from Wonderland.

4,712 piecesSupporter

Oz Motifs

Roads, storms, poppies, witches, lions and strange journeys across Oz.

4,657 piecesSupporter

Fairy-Tale Forest

Mushrooms, roses, animals, trees and enchanted objects from old wonder tales.

Dark tales and faraway journeys

Gothic classics, Poe, Jules Verne and sea adventures, organized by the worlds behind the art.

1,831 piecesSupporter

Poe Gothic

Ravens, skulls, masks, roses, moons and the dark architecture of Edgar Allan Poe.

2,073 piecesSupporter

Gothic Classics

Castles, bats, masks, portraits and storm-lit symbols from the old gothic imagination.

2,162 piecesSupporter

Verne's Nautical World

Submarines, ships, globes, whales and instruments for impossible voyages.

3,366 piecesSupporter

Sea Adventure

Ships, anchors, sea creatures, maps and the visual language of ocean adventure.

Decorative styles

Historic ornament, Art Deco, chinoiserie and toile patterns for a distinct period look.

2,728 piecesSupporter

World Ornament

Crests, cloud scrolls, embroidery and lotus borders from Japanese, Chinese and Egyptian sources.

1,865 piecesSupporter

Art Deco

Sunbursts, chevrons, fans and stepped geometry, from the 1925 Paris exposition onward.

1,700 piecesSupporter

Chinoiserie

Peonies, cranes, pagodas and fretwork, in the European reading of Chinese decorative style.

1,188 piecesSupporter

Toile de Jouy

Pastoral vignettes in the toile manner: figures at a gate, a willow, a pagoda in the distance.

Collected and cozy

Cottage flowers, inherited details and layered interiors, from light rural charm to darker nostalgia.

3,789 piecesSupporter

Cottagecore

Wildflowers, songbirds, herbs and folk borders, for a soft, rural, hand-made feel.

1,729 piecesSupporter

Dark Cottagecore

The cottage garden after dusk: moths, toadstools, ravens and lantern light rather than sunshine.

1,843 piecesSupporter

Grandmacore

Samplers, quilt blocks, doilies and the good teapot, from needlework manuals and household books.

1,731 piecesSupporter

Grandmillennial Toile and Heritage Wallpaper

Damask, trellis, scalloped edges and tasselled swags, from wallpaper and furnishing pattern books.

The curious cabinet

The human form, sacred symbols, clockwork and mystical details for less ordinary projects.

1,264 piecesSupporter

Figures and Anatomy

The human body as the engravers drew it: costume plates, portrait studies, dissection tables and bone.

1,841 piecesSupporter

Whimsigoth

Moons, stars, serpents and open hands, for the mystical end of the catalogue rather than the grim one.

702 piecesSupporter

Steampunk

Brass, cogs, boilers and airships. The machine age as it drew itself, before anyone called it a genre.

462 piecesSupporter

Sacred and Devotional

Crosses, chant, seraphim and church carving, from devotional and liturgical sources.

Around the calendar

Valentine's Day, Easter and the changing seasons, each with its own collection path.

4,250 piecesSupporter

Valentine's

Hearts, cupids, ribbons, bows and lace, for the fourteenth of February rather than the whole year.

4,052 piecesSupporter

Easter

Eggs, hares, chicks, lambs and the first bulbs up, from oology plates and spring flower books.

3,973 piecesSupporter

Spring

Blossom, buds, bulbs, nests and the birds that build them, from botanical and oological plates.

4,066 piecesSupporter

Summer

Sunflowers, poppies, dragonflies, parasols and soft fruit, at the height of the growing season.

2,780 piecesSupporter

Autumn

Acorns, oak, wheat sheaves, gourds, grapes and every mushroom the mycologists painted.

Illustrated source books

Browse the books behind natural history, artist albums, plants, fairy tales and travel.

2,263 piecesSupporter

Natural History Plates

Floras, herbals, conchologies and bird books, drawn from the specimen rather than from memory.

269 piecesSupporter

Artists and Albums

Books by one hand: Hokusai's sketchbooks, Busch's albums, Holbein's dance and Doré's chivalry.

452 piecesSupporter

Plant Form and Drawing Manuals

The art-school books that taught a designer to turn a growing plant into a repeatable motif.

953 piecesSupporter

Fairy-Tale Books

Illustrated storybooks and folklore volumes gathered by their source editions.

1,802 piecesSupporter

Travel and Adventure Books

Ships, machines, expeditions and illustrated journeys from historic volumes.

Books for makers

Ornament, alphabets, architecture and heraldry from the original design manuals.

1,304 piecesSupporter

Ornament and Pattern Books

The nineteenth-century ornament canon, measured and redrawn plate by plate.

1,104 piecesSupporter

Alphabet and Lettering Books

The sign-writers' and draughtsmen's manuals every historical alphabet in the library came out of.

418 piecesSupporter

Architecture and Machine Books

Gothic surveys, carved stone and the Renaissance machine books, drawn to be built from.

1,564 piecesSupporter

Heraldry, Costume and Dress

Armorials and costume albums: what a coat of arms and a wardrobe were supposed to look like.

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