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.

Advertising Background Scan of an advertising page from a children's magazine.	Vintage Advertising Page A fun vintage advertising page to use as a pattern or background.	Advertising Page Fun, vintage advertising page form a children's magazine.
Floral Pattern Lovely vintage endpaper with a tan floral pattern.	Asian Background Pattern This wonderful Asian background pattern contains a huge collection of smaller images.	Blue & White Floral Blue and white floral end paper pattern.