FUNDRAISING

OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN HAS STARTED!  GOAL: 5000 USD / 6125 CAD AND CURRENTLY AT 23%

To keep our Library up and running, we hold a fundraising campaign from September to December.

If you can’t afford to donate, but would like to help the Antique Pattern Library, introducing the Library to people who don’t know of it yet, is very useful, since it broadens our user base and therefore also our future donor base. Blogs, Tiktok, Instagram, Pinterest, Ravelry, Facebook, other social media – show others your favorite publications and what you made using them. Our work is only useful when people actually use it!

If that is not possible either, just enjoy our new publications either for inspiration or for your own work!

NEW PUBLICATION

E-WM070 Marie Antoinette Hees – Centerpieces, Lemonade Sets and Doilies, Book No. 06
16 pages with beautiful doilies in various sizes, illustrated in black and white. Mostly border designs for round doilies, a square design and some edge designs. All crochet, as delicate as lace and beautiful floral designs.
From the collection of Folva Miller, donated by her grandson Charles Kite, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.

A bit more about this new publication by Marie Antoinette Hees : It’s a rare crochet book from the beginning of the 20th Century, when color photographs weren’t possible yet, but the monochrome images show the designs in all their glory. The doilies are white linen centers with a crocheted edge and would show up beautifully on a dark background. The book also contains an elementary how-to crochet on the inside back cover.

OTHER ADDITIONS

Workbasket links from archive.org have been added to our workbasket page, Volume 22. Archive.org has more Workbaskets and I’ll add links to them as I work on that page. The Workbasket page is still a work in progress, as many magazines have been scanned but not yet edited.