A collection of free images for crafters selected by crafters.
Backgrounds & Patterns from Vintage Endpapers & Advertisements
Vintage books often have wonderful endpapers with fanciful and decorative designs printed on them. Most repeat and with careful editing could easily be pieced together to make page-sized background papers. Since endpapers are rarely signed or attributed to a particular artist, I am only including end paper backgrounds that were used in books published over 120 years ago to ensure that the pattern images presented here are all in the public domain.
In this section of Reusable Art, you will also find a few vintage advertising images scanned from magazines. Unfortunately, the ones we have so far would not really work for scrapbooking as they are too small. But, I think they would work great on websites and other electronic projects.
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Scan of an advertising page from a children's magazine.
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A fun vintage advertising page to use as a pattern or background.
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Fun, vintage advertising page form a children's magazine.
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Lovely vintage endpaper with a tan floral pattern.
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This wonderful Asian background pattern contains a huge collection of smaller images.
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Blue and white floral end paper pattern.
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