Sacred Ornaments. Orthodox Vector Illustrations

A bit of context: these ornaments come from the pages of a Triod, the Lenten service book that Orthodox print shops set by hand through the 16th and 17th centuries. We were extremely lucky to get one and scan the original woodcut and metal-engraving illustrations. We traced each one into clean vectors, holding onto the ink-heavy line and the faint wobble of a hand-cut block.

The set is a genuine Church Slavonic book decoration. The pieces run across the full grammar of a printed liturgical page: dense acanthus headpieces that once opened a chapter, narrow mirrored bands that divided passages, floral finials rising out of round urns, corner flourishes, and large cartouches framing sacred scenes, e.g., the Enthroned Holy Trinity, the Last Supper around a tiled table, the Descent of the Holy Spirit among the apostles. Crosses, monograms, and small wildflower vignettes fill out the rest.

Usage: church and choral album covers, editorial illustration on faith and history, book and chapter openers, museum and exhibition print, poster borders, devotional and artisan packaging, tattoo references, and ceremony suites with an old-world register.

Details:

• 24 unique vector symbols and illustrations;
• AI, EPS, SVG, and PNG formats;
• transparent, high-resolution PNGs;
• traced from real 16th–17th century scans.