FUNDRAISING

OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN HAS STARTED!  GOAL: 5000 USD / 6125 CAD AND CURRENTLY AT 64%

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 

O-LR001 C. Goerke – Stick-Musterbuch 50
Small oblong stapled pattern book with thirteen alphabet patterns, from small to large. Page 2 missing. Rare book, Latvian in origin.
From the collection of Lena Reijnhout, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.

Latvian alphabet pattern books such as this one are quite rare on the bookmarket, so although the number suggests that this is volume 50, I’ve never seen another. Still, rejoice in what we have, not hanker after what we have not, although if one of the other volumes comes within reach we’ll try to get that too. This one was acquired thanks to a Dutch lady who sold me another book and when I explained it would be published on our site, added this book and a handpainted pattern for free. Thanks to her, we can share this uncommon item with the world –  get out the needle and floss and start eyeing towels and handkerchiefs 🙂