The Shin-Bijutsukai was a turn of the century (1901-1902) design magazine full of wonderful vintage Japanese art prints. The wonderful designs in the magazine were from the best Japanese artists at the time. All the prints are original Japanese woodblock prints. They reflected aspects of Japanese life from everyday surroundings,[Read more]
I’m a big fan of color especially a rainbow of color. My home is full of rainbow crafts and DIYs. I thought it would be fun to add to the decor with some vintage color wheel posters and vintage color charts. I even display many of the colorful vintage flowers[Read more]
I have curated a collection of free guitar patent prints. The patent printable art can be downloaded with the white background from the Google patent search or with a more vintage Kraft paper background I have designed. We have a few guitars in the house some acoustic and even one[Read more]
There is something romantic about vintage hot air balloon art prints. I think because it was the birth of air travel. This is a carefully curated collection of vintage hot air balloon drawings, including some beautiful painted French postcards of the earliest hot air balloons and airships. Airships are[Read more]
I have curated a gorgeous collection of retro happy Valentine’s day images to download and print for free. Valentine’s day falls on the 14th of February. It is an extra special day in my household as it also happens to be my Birthday. Did you know that after Christmas, Valentine’s[Read more]
I have curated a wonderful sample of domain free John Bauer art prints. He was a Swedish painter and illustrator of Scandinavian mythology. Bauer is well known for his illustrations of early editions of Bland tomtar och troll (Among Gnomes and Trolls), an anthology of Swedish folklore and fairy tales. He got[Read more]
I’ve already used some of the wonderful vintage images on this site to make some upcycled dictionary Christmas baubles for my tree. When I came across a pile of old spectacles I thought it would be fun to repurpose them into eyeglass ornaments for the tree. Every year I get[Read more]
As a child, I used to love to take things apart to see how they were made. That is probably why I’m fascinated with patent art. Google has a great search engine where you can search for original patents. As it’s coming near to Christmas I thought it would be[Read more]