FUNDRAISING

OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN HAS STARTED!  GOAL: 5000 USD / 6125 CAD AND CURRENTLY AT 75%

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 

F-GE001 Bermann 632 – Nine pattern cards
Handpainted pattern, single sheet. Eight cards laid out in a star shape with a ninth with the letter M in the center.They aren’t playing cards, each has a small motif: parrot, duck in water, grape cluster, cornucopia, flower branch, unknown motif, garland, and possibly a clown. Two different rose motifs, each both in a corner and the opposing corner.
Image donated by ebay seller georgsonneblume, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.

Many publishers printed small pattern cards, sometimes as leporello, sometimes as individual cards or collected on a single page. This is possibly a collection of such small patterns arranged in a decorative shape, ready for framing. There are similar modern embroidery patterns showing a collection of needlework tools, kitchen tools, English table silver etc. but it’s uncommon to see such an early example, always assuming that this is the correct interpretation. A lovely motif to embroider in any case, and the individual motifs might be used too.