FUNDRAISING

OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN HAS STARTED!  GOAL: 5000 USD / 6125 CAD AND CURRENTLY AT 73%

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 

C-SW002 André-Béranger – Alphabets Variés de A. Rouyer 21
Small leporello with two whitework alphabets with floral decoration. The alphabets were each four folded pages wide. To make viewing, copying, and printing easier the wide strips have been split vertically in four pages each, making the letters on each page seem out of order. The designs are small, probably meant for marking handkerchiefs and similar small items.
Scan donated and edited by Sytske Wijnsma.

You know you’ve done well when your successor keeps your name for commercial purposes. These Rouyer alphabets were actually published by their successor Béranger, but the name of Rouyer figures more prominently on the cover than that of the actual publisher. Evidently Rouyer alphabets and designs were in a class of their own and the customers knew that. A similar modern example would be DMC, now no longer an independent company, where the current owner is wise in not changing the name of the embroidery threads or the pattern books.