Golden Marbled Background
Vintage cover paper from an old seed catalog. Lovely public domain golden marbled background for your digital and printed art projects.
Backgrounds & Patterns
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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Black and Gold Endpaper BackgroundVintage black and gold endpaper and background image from the 1890s. Delicate flowers and leaves are repeated on a black linen paper. |
Green Leaf EndpaperA pretty, repeating background image. A page-sized green leaf endpaper image from 1907. |
Vintage Green Floral EndpaperNo matter what sort of paper crafting you do, there’s always a need for patterned paper. This vintage green floral endpaper is well-aged and delicate. |
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Beige, Red & Black BackgroundMarbled, vintage beige, red and black background image. Originally used as endpaper for a botany book, I think it would make a great wallpaper or frame image. |
Purple Marble WallpaperVintage purple marble wallpaper pattern. Dark, dramatic and bold from a vintage botany book’s cover. |
Scenic EndpaperLovely scenic endpaper that would make a wonderful background image for another project. It is the work of Thomas Fogarty (1873 – 1938), an American artist. |
Floral Endpaper1887, vintage floral endpaper design and background paper. Would work great for websites, scrapbook pages and anywhere you might need a floral background. |
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Wildflowers PatternVintage endpaper design from a book of poetry. This wildflowers pattern is in the public domain and could be left plain or easily colorized. |
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