FUNDRAISING

OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN HAS STARTED!  GOAL: 5000 USD / 6125 CAD AND CURRENTLY AT 63%

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, and this Workbasket Vol. 14 No. 10 is especially useful for crocheted household things.

NEW PUBLICATION 

B-JA036 Carmela Testa – Variety Book No. 4
Assisi work and other Italian embroideries, instructions, illustrations and charts, including a wonderful acorn and dragon pattern.
Donated by Judith Adele, scanned by Seya Wijnsma-Spek, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.

These Carmela Testa Variety books are rare, and fascinating views of what fancy needlework was around the beginning of the 20th Century. The Assisi work that is the focus of this volume is still done and the embroidered items are sold for high prices, reflecting the amount of work and care needed to do this properly. For those with less time the hemstitching alone would make a beautiful project. The Punto Antico patterns are also suitable for smaller items. For those who look for patterns to personalize items with, DMC Point de Marque 2 contains an Assisi alphabet in red and black.