Vintage Printable

Last night when I got home from work I convinced Nathaniel to go for a short walk out to the mailbox to see if any mail had arrived. To my excitement my monthly subscription to Canada's Style At Home had come! As I was dozing off reading it in bed I noticed the lovely artwork they had displayed on a photo of an office wall (pg 70 & 71, the decorating high/low feature).


I flipped the page to see if I could find a source for the artwork and I was super excited when I saw that the artwork was 18th century prints from a FREE online source!!!! Yes FREE! You can download those prints featured as well as many more (hundreds) for free at Vintage Printable . They have so many prints to choose from...anything from botanicals to animals, anatomy, astronomy, antique maps and marine life. They also had a cool gallery for Halloween prints and other holidays. Here are a few of my favorites I saw....




this is a 1675 German version of the world map

































these are two of the 8 mushroom prints they had featured in Ikea frames in the magazine spread






The site is under maintenance and has a few quirks to sort out but overall I found it to be a great source for some free vintage prints! I actually found the easiest way to navigate the site was to scroll down and on the right is a list of all the galleries.

12 comments:

  1. RosieOctober 6, 2009 at 7:07 PM

    OMG! What an incredible thing to have found! THank you so much for sharing...will have to head over there tonight from some downloading...I feel and Ikea frame adventure coming on!

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  2. erinOctober 6, 2009 at 8:24 PM

    What a score of a sight! I am going to have to find some time to do some printing. So cool!

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  3. elleOctober 6, 2009 at 9:05 PM

    Thank you so much for sharing! I have been looking for some vintage prints but didn't want to spend the extra $$...can't beat free!! Please post pics if you do something with them.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 7, 2009 at 7:35 AM

    Free is the best thing ever. And these are great, so awesome find!

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  5. MrsKBJOctober 7, 2009 at 8:23 AM

    Thanks for sharing! That is a great find!!

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  6. lauren @ gathering mossOctober 7, 2009 at 3:03 PM

    this is exactly why blogs are awesome. i JUST posted about wanting to do this the other day (http://stonesgatheringmoss.blogspot.com/2009/10/confessions-of-perfectionist.html) and i'm so excited to have a great source now!! thanks!

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  7. LynettOctober 8, 2009 at 9:09 AM

    Oh wow, that's fabulous! Free sounds good to me! Thanks for the source!

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  8. Swiss AvenueOctober 8, 2009 at 12:12 PM

    Awesome! Thanks for the info!

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  9. MaryOctober 8, 2009 at 2:01 PM

    Hey Rebecca!
    Thanks for stopping by my little 'ol blog! If only I lived closer to you and Holly...oh the shopping trips we would have! ;o) Holly is a total rock star, by the way. I first found you when you did your post on kitchen cabinets. I just did mine, too...wow...what a task, but so worth it in the end. Love watching your blog...so keep up the inspiration!
    Mary

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  10. AmandaOctober 9, 2009 at 9:30 AM

    hi lovely. ...cute new autograph. :)

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  11. Krystal Wight ArmstrongOctober 9, 2009 at 10:26 PM

    I agree with everything Mrs. H said. I've been hunting for some myself, but am also on a married-student budget for a little longer, so this was awesome! I'd also love to see what creative way you use them. If I print some out, I may do like Holly and te-tint them just a bit for more fake visual 'authenticity.'

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  12. AdministratorJune 18, 2013 at 8:45 AM

    Thank you for these images. I shared it on my Tuesday's Guest Freebies and with 1790 followers of my Free Digtal Scrapbook board on Pinterest. Thank you. http://scrapbookalphabet.blogspot.com/2013/06/tuesdays-guest-freebies.html

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