Design Elements and Motifs
The Design Elements and Motifs ClipArt collection offers 1,645 illustrations of artificial objects, bands, banners and borders of many shapes and sizes, dividers, doodads, quilt blocks, and tailpieces, as well as stylized representations of plants, animals, and humans.
Artificial Objects
This ClipArt gallery offers 61 illustrations of artificial objects such as trophies, symbols, and ribbons.
Bands
This ClipArt gallery offers 131 illustrations of band designs from many different time periods and cultures. Some of the more common band designs include bead moulding, the fret, interlacing, spirals,…
Banners
This ClipArt gallery offers 224 banners in assorted varieties, such as calligraphic, filigree, floral, ornate, and pictorial.
Borders
The Borders ClipArt collection offers 224 border motifs arranged into 3 galleries: full page borders, corners, and edge borders.
Decorative Animal Forms
This ClipArt gallery offers 119 illustrations of stylized animal forms. Decorative interpretations of lions, eagles, rams, horses, and other animals have been frequently used throughout history.
Decorative Human Forms
This ClipArt gallery offers 33 illustrations of stylized human forms, including grotesques and half-human forms. For similar stylized illustrations of the human face, please see the Masks gallery.
Decorative Plant Forms
This ClipArt gallery offers 104 illustrations of stylized plant forms. Variations of the acanthus, laurel, papyrus, palm, ivy, and oak leaves have been used as a decorative motif in many different cultures.…
Dividers
This ClipArt gallery offers 190 illustrations of dividers, which are used to separate major sections or chapters on one page, or to just separate two distinct sections.
Doodads
This ClipArt gallery offers 139 illustrations of doodads, which are designs that can be used in logo creation or to add a theme or decorative image to a project or presentation.
Frames
This ClipArt gallery offers 98 images of frames. These frames usually take up most of a page, and many have a central area for text or am image to be entered. Please see our Presentations ETC website…
Panels: Circular
The Circular Panels ClipArt gallery contains 61 examples of round decorative panels.
Panels: Elliptic
The Elliptic Panels ClipArt gallery contains 7 examples of oval shaped decorative panels.
Panels: Lozenge
The Lozenge Panel ClipArt gallery contains 8 examples of diamond or rhombus shaped decorative panels.
Panels: Rectangular
The Rectangular Panel ClipArt gallery contains 30 examples of non-square rectangular decorative panels.
Panels: Semi-Circular
The Semi-Circular Panel ClipArt gallery contains 6 examples of half-circle decorative panels.
Panels: Square
This ClipArt gallery offers 104 illustrations of panels that use various art styles and techniques, such as inlaying, painting, and mosaic, to make decorative art panels. Many of these panels can be seen…
Panels: Triangular
The Triangular Panel ClipArt gallery contains 4 examples of three-sided decorative panels. See the Tailpieces gallery for many additional triangular designs.
Panels: Miscellaneous Shapes
The Miscellaneous Shapes Panel ClipArt gallery contains 35 examples of decorative panels that do not fit into any of the other decorative panel classifications.
Tailpieces
This ClipArt gallery offers 72 illustrations of tailpieces, which are engravings or designs that are put at the bottom of pages, or at the end of a chapter in a book.