FUNDRAISING

OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN HAS STARTED!  GOAL: 5000 USD / 6125 CAD AND CURRENTLY AT 36%

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

This is the link to the donation button: Donate to keep the Antique Pattern Library running!  

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! There’s always something new to try out and something well-known to sharpen our skills with!

NEW PUBLICATION 

H-GC001 Embroidered beaded footstool
Square walnut footstool embroidered with a geometric pattern in predominantly green shades. Some bead damage so the color of the center bead is not known.
Images donated by ebay seller 385gill, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.

Beading was used where durability or heat-resistance was needed, so we see that in hot pot mats, and locations on chair seats and back that are prone to excessive wear, or such as the center of this embroidered beaded footstool.  It will keep its original colors and can be easily cleaned. Another advantage of beadwork is that it doesn’t show holes in the fabric, making it also suitable for pincushion covers. 

Apart from those practical considerations, beadwork has its own beauty, and can be used for decoration especially now that modern beads can be had in many colors and sizes. Beaded purses were favorite items to show off, with patterns adapted from Berlin woolwork or made specifically for purses and bags.