800 Victorian Line Ornaments

The Ultimate Victorian Line Ornament Bundle is your all-encompassing package if you're looking for authentic Victorian line ornaments. Including well over 800 pieces, you can get digital access to an entire Victorian print shop's typographic ornament selection for a price that would drive our predecessors wild if they saw it. Line ornaments have always been a focal point of vintage printing, however, they only rose to prominence starting from the 1870s . Up until the early 1890s before the bolder, more rounded shapes of Art Nouveau started driving them out of fashion , they defined a clear visual style which has recently started to come back into fashion again. This Ultimate Bundle is a carefully curated selection of more than 800 of these line ornaments, all of which have been revived digitally based on rare specimen books left by type foundries of the era. --- Ensched en Zonen of Haarlem, the Netherlands Founded in 1703 and its successor still operating as a printer of official documents and banknotes, the former Ensched en Zonen type foundry of Haarlem was a treasure chamber of lead type and ornaments in the heart of the Netherlands. Our bundle includes revivals of two of the company's ornament packs from their 1890 specimen book: - Systematische Ornamenten Serie 29a - Systematische Ornamenten Serie 29b --- Genzsch & Heyse of Hamburg, Germany Having been founded in Hamburg, Germany in 1833, the Genzsch & Heyse type foundry later expanded to Munich and became a well-known company of the era, producing both typefaces and ornaments. Our bundle includes one ornament set from them, originally released in 1879, and revived digitally based on rare specimen sheets collected and bound into a book around the mid-1890s: - Neue Ornamente 1879 --- Julius Klinkhardt of Leipzig, Germany Having operated in Leipzig, Germany during the late 1800s and early 1900s, Schriftgiesserei Julius Klinkhardt was one of the most renowned Germany type foundries of the Victorian era. The company was known for their wide range of typographic ornament selection, five line ornament packs of which are included in this bundle as revived based on their specimen book "Hand-Probe" dating to around 1905: - Akzidenz-Verzierungen Serie 60 - Renaissance-Zge Serie 65 - Miniatur-Verzierungen Serie 67 - Moderner Linienschmuck Serie 70 - Moderner Linienschmuck Serie 73 --- Schelter & Giesecke of Leipzig, Germany Another renowned type foundry of the Leipzig, Germany area, Schelter & Giesecke was founded during the 1810s by Johann Schelter and Christian Friedrich Giesecke, and went on to be one of the leading type foundries of Victorian Germany. Two ornament packs are included in our bundle as revived based on the company's 1886 specimen book: - Linien-Einfassung Serie LVII - Renaissance-Ornamente Serie LIX --- Wilhelm Woellmer of Berlin, Germany Although having leaned heavily on type design since the 1860s, the Wilhelm Woellmer type foundry also produced some fine ornament sets. One set of such is included in our bundle as well: - Stumpffeine Ornamente