Clip Art for Textile Inspiration

Just invested in a few Dover Clip Art CD-ROM/books that were part of their current sale. Free shipping and tote bag, too!

I love Dover Clip Art - they have a large collection to choose from and the designs are royalty-free. In this case it means that you can use the designs - even for your own creations for sale - up to a limited number per collection. If you need/want to use more, they charge a small fee for licensing. Since many of their art collections are now available on CD-ROM, you don't even need to own a scanner in order to use the artwork. They have done the work for you and saved them as high-resolution graphics.

There's a lot of ways you can use these graphics. I sometimes turn them into t-shirts and assorted items for my Katzenmusik store. You can print them onto transfer paper and make your own custom fabric designs. Or digitize them into your own embroidery designs.

I love having these wonderful designs available to work with to supplement my own ideas. It's so much easier to be creative when you have a starting point to get you going! There's definitely no such thing as too much inspiration.