# Coloured vector SVG files > Lifted from the page of historical books. Flat-colour vectors, for printing and layered art. - **Open the group:** https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/browse/print - **Collections:** 35 - **Files in total:** 9,603 Personal use, commercial physical products and digital resale or redistribution are permitted on every account tier under each file's applicable licence. MyLaserTools grants only rights it controls. Public-domain originals retain their independent rights; preserve the copyright and licence notices required by MIT and other source licences. Sparks pay for file preparation, hosting and access, not exclusive ownership of historical originals. Browsing is open to everyone. Generated collections download with a free account; a paid artwork unlock costs 2 sparks, or the published library is included while Supporter or Pro access is active. Artwork unlocked with sparks can be downloaded again without another charge while it remains published. Membership-only downloads do not become permanent spark unlocks. ## Collections in this group - [Ornament Plates (897 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/ornament): Chromolithograph borders, panels and illuminated ornament from Victorian pattern books. - [Flowers (859 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/flowers): Botanical colour plates of garden and wild flowers, drawn in full bloom from life. - [Japanese Colour Prints (673 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/japanese): Birds, flowers and waves from Japanese colour-woodblock albums, printed flat rather than shaded. - [Shells (668 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/shells): Conchology plates painted from the cabinet: whelks, cowries, scallops and nautilus. - [Illuminated Lettering (632 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/lettering): Initials, alphabets and title panels laid out in gold and colour by illuminating manuals. - [Machines and Engines (589 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/machines): Screw presses, winches, mine engines and mills, scanned whole from Renaissance machine books. - [Figures in Colour (561 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/figures): People as the colour plates drew them: portraits, dancers, workers and studies of dress. - [Birds in Colour (467 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/birds): Hand-coloured ornithological plates: songbirds, waterfowl and the eggs that go with them. - [Fungi Plates (410 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/mushrooms): Caps, gills and spore drawings from the great mycological atlases, painted plate by plate. - [Herbals and Remedies (400 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/apothecary): Medicinal plants cut for the apothecary, scanned from Blackwell's Curious Herbal and its kin. - [Botanical in Colour (349 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/botanical): Colour botany plates: the whole plant with root, leaf and flower, painted from the specimen. - [Minerals and Fossils (336 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/minerals): Crystals, ores and fossil impressions, hand coloured specimen by specimen for the cabinet. - [Costume Plates (310 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/costume): Historical dress, uniforms and regional folk costume from hand-coloured costume albums. - [Butterflies in Colour (291 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/butterflies): Hand-coloured lepidoptera plates: swallowtails, hawk moths and the caterpillars they came from. - [Insects in Colour (252 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/insects): Butterflies, moths and beetles from hand-coloured entomology plates, wings at full colour. - [Ruins and Views (224 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/ruins): Piranesi's Rome and the American picturesque: temples, aqueducts and river valleys drawn on the spot. - [Colour Borders (214 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/borders): Chromolithograph border strips and running patterns, printed to frame a page in flat colour. - [Creatures in Colour (212 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/creatures): Beasts, fish and fabled animals printed in full colour from natural histories and bestiaries. - [Textile Designs (191 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/textile): Repeating florals, damask and printed cloth from textile and wallpaper sample books. - [Anatomy and Diagrams (156 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/diagrams): Anatomical figures and the earliest statistical charts, both coloured to be read rather than admired. - [Heraldry in Colour (150 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/heraldry): Shields, crests and badges in their proper tinctures, which is the whole point of a heraldic plate. - [Ferns in Colour (149 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/ferns): Fronds from the Victorian fern books, drawn at the height of the craze for collecting them. - [Alchemy and Emblems (140 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/symbols): Hermetic emblems, allegories and alchemical figures, scanned whole from the emblem books. - [Artefacts and Antiquities (131 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/artifacts): Gold masks, inlaid daggers and painted pottery, drawn as the excavation reports recorded them. - [Leaves (72 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/leaves): Leaf and foliage studies printed in autumn colour, ready to scatter across a panel. - [Nautical in Colour (66 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/nautical): Ships, rigging and harbour scenes in colour, from maritime albums and signal charts. - [Chinese Colour Plates (60 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/chinese): Peonies, dragons and lattice ornament from Chinese decorative albums and ornament books. - [Star Charts (44 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/constellations): Constellation figures and planetary diagrams from the hand-coloured celestial atlases. - [Objects in Colour (40 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/objects): Vases, clocks, lamps and household things, printed in colour from trade catalogues and design plates. - [Geometry (14 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/geometry): Ruled colour diagrams and geometric constructions from technical drawing plates. - [Furniture (11 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/furniture): Historical colour plates traced into flat-colour vectors for printing. - [Pottery (9 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/pottery): Historical colour plates traced into flat-colour vectors for printing. - [Skeleton (8 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/skeleton): Historical colour plates traced into flat-colour vectors for printing. - [Initials (6 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/initials): Historical colour plates traced into flat-colour vectors for printing. - [Ephemera (5 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/ephemera): Historical colour plates traced into flat-colour vectors for printing. ## More from MyLaserTools - Art Library: https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library - All tools: https://www.mylasertools.com/ - Licensing: https://www.mylasertools.com/licensing - Machine-readable index: https://www.mylasertools.com/llms.txt