Out-Of-Copyright Material For Us!

[TexasLady]

I found beautiful, copyright-free, images on this site. Click 'here' toward the bottom of their page. It will take you to a page where you can see samples and sign up for their free newsletter. Once there, look under Collections, then Images. It's a hodge-podge on this site, and I don't approve personally of everything found there. But I did sign up for their free newsletter.

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/voyaging-into-the-wonderland-of-expired-copyright-artwork

I love this Japanese art series that I found on the site.

http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/53-stations-of-the-tokaido-as-potted-landscapes-1848/

Edited May 13, 2015 by TexasLady

[donholloway]

Thanks! I love this kind of stuff. Great for ideas.

[TexasLady]

Thanks for the response. Yeah, I hope they keep going with it and grow the content. Also, I hope they will install more ways to search through the content.

I've tried to pin down copyright-free materials on, for example, wiki, but even items that seem on-the-surface to be fair game often have caveats that soon turn into sticky-wickies. Even with my paralegal degree and a curiosity for understanding the law, those rules on what's legal and ethical quickly become confusing and unwieldy. This site gives us images and script that we can use on our creations, then sell them, without getting sued.

[TexasLady]

Found more free-to-copy images on that same site. These were listed under Paintings.

http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/page/2/?medium=image&style=paintings

Edited June 12, 2015 by TexasLady

[MKuusk]

I have a pattern set that is from Estonia in the 1930s -40s and it was the most popular design of the local porcelain factory. The factory was govermentalized and has no sucsessor so they should be free.
http://imgur.com/Ixow0GD

Edit: I also have it on 5mm squared notebook paper for better copying

And this is my fathers old design, that should work on leather: http://imgur.com/Ixow0GD

If you want old national patterns from eastern Europe, I can scan more.

Sorry for my english.

Mark.

Edited June 13, 2015 by MKuusk

[TexasLady]

Your English is great, Mark. I didn't notice any glitches at all. Those designs are lovely,...completely charming. There's just one little problem though; both links are the same. Please come back and give us the other one.

The closest I'd seen to those designs were on the blouse of my Russian piano teacher. And, actually, her mother was Polish, so her blouse might have been Polish rather than Russian. Thank you so much.

Edited June 17, 2015 by TexasLady

[TexasLady]

Here's another copyright free image.

"The king of Cambay (in present day Gujarat), painted by Ludovico di Varthema between 1502 and 1508 CE Source."

http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-travels-of-ludovico-di-varthema-1863/

Edited June 17, 2015 by TexasLady