Free Printables

 
I spend waaaay too long hunting down awesome sites which offer amazing free printable images to use as wall art or in other crafty projects, especially those with beautiful antique or vintage high resolution graphics which can be effectively enlarged.
So take advantage of my (slightly) obsessive quest. Listed below are some of my absolute favourite online sources for free printables.

	THE GRAPHICS FAIRY For a huge range of beautiful vintage graphics. Many at large-scale or in high resolution. Visit the search page to browse by category.
	VINTAGE PRINTABLE For some amazing (and a few unusual) high resolution vintage images. This site can be slow and a little tricky to navigate though there are some lovely images.
	BOTANICUS For thousands of downloadable large-scale botanical illustrations. This site is a vast digital library of historic botanical literature so much of the content is text. To find images, open a book and scroll to 'Plate' or 'Illustration' in the 'Pages' list. To download an image click the straight arrow icon in the navigation tab.
	THE VINTAGE MOTH For hundreds of antique and vintage graphics.
	AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE For over three hundred lovely scientific historic pear watercolours. Image links are displayed in a text-based table. To view thumbnails instead click the link at the top of the table.
	NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY DIGITAL GALLERY For thousands (upon thousands!) of free printables. Most images are at low resolution so can't be enlarged though are great for standard certificate sized frames and/or matting.
	BIBLIODYSSEY For thousands of gorgeous vintage images, many of them at high resolution (so able to be enlarged!). BibliOdyssey's images are all neatly stored in Peacay's Flickr stream. I definitely recommend checking this one out!
	MAP HISTORY For links to databases carrying thousands of digitised historic maps. Start your search in the 'Images of Early Maps' link (in the left sidebar).
	DAVID RUMSEY MAP COLLECTION For a huge collection of maps scanned at very high resolution. Registration is required to export maps at their full size (which is often larger than two meters!). Search for maps via this category page.
	PHOTOSHOP ROADMAP For forty lovely antique maps. A small donation is requested to download all maps at full resolution.