Fruit And Vegetable Crate Labels!
Vintage crate labels provide a wonderful bounty of rich and imaginative imagery and were designed specifically to appeal to one’s senses by conveying all the wonderful qualities of fresh produce – health, longevity, vitality and flavor!
Meant to catch the eye of passing shoppers in neighborhood markets and busy wholesale buyers in the produce auction markets, the artwork on these crate labels is nothing short of incredible.
There wasn’t a single subject left unexplored – you name it, you can probably find a crate label featuring it in dazzling fashion.
These wonderfully colorful and eye-catching labels were glued onto wooden produce crates and shipped all over the country for roughly 70 years.
Now, here’s the really cool thing for us as product creators, information publishers, and seekers of copyright-free images for our blogs and other products – the vast majority of these crate labels are in the public domain and are thus free for us to reproduce in any way we choose!
Fruit Art In Public Domain
Books that teach art… are timeless. If you want to learn the art of painting fruit it really is not any different today than it was 75 years ago.
You could learn to draw and paint pears:
Or you could learn about the beauty of cherries:
How about learning to paint plums?
You might want to learn or to teach Floral or Fruit Arranging. Even the illustrations are “art”:
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A Living Vase.—This process of ornamenting vases is by no means new; but, as the thing is still far from being common, and as it may give some one a new idea by which to help beautify the home, we have deemed it worth while to give a representation of it so as to show the result, and to indicate the means employed to obtain it, which are most simple.
Though any kind of vases can be used indiscriminately, those inunglazed terracotta are preferable, being porous. In such vessels the water with which the vase is filled percolates constantly through the sides and moistens the plants which are fixed on its surface. This kind of vase is, however, not indispensable, for we can ornament all kinds, whether in glass or metal. In the latter case it is necessary to prepare the surface so as to convert it into a sort of soil, which it really represents—an operation which is easily managed by the aid of a piece of cloth or flannel which is fixed by means of a little packthread or thin iron or brass wire. This being understood, the means employed to grow the seed must next be described.
If a porous vase be used it is filled with water or, better still, left in a pail of water to soak. After a lapse of 24 hours, when the water has thoroughly saturated the vase, it is laid on its side, and the seed sprinkled slightly over the surface, taking care to turn the vase in different directions, in order that the whole surface may be well covered with seed. This operation terminated, the vase is placed in a dark closet for some time, and, if possible, under a glass frame, so as to preserve humidity and facilitate germination. When the plants are developed, and in case they get detached from the vase, they are secured by passing round, in different directions, a little packthread or fine wire, which soon disappears under the vegetation.
If a non-porous vase, after having well soaked the cloth which covers it, the seed is sown upon it and the same care is given it as has already been indicated. When a porous vase is used it should be kept constantly full, as it is the water filtering slowly through it that feeds the plants which cover the sides.
Plenty of great fruit, vegetable and floral artwork is available in the Public Domain to use anyway you choose. You have to spend a small bit of time learning just where it’s located and the tricks of finding it – easily. Then it’s all up to you to plunder the great treasure trove of copyright free material.
About The Author:
 Debra Conrad is an online entrepreneur, information publisher, and author that has been using Public Domain material to create profitable products and businesses since 2007. She is also co-author of "The Public Domain Treasure Hunter's Survival Kit" available here. For more info Debra, click here. |
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