FUNDRAISING

OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN HAS STARTED!  GOAL: 5000 USD / 6125 CAD AND CURRENTLY AT 76%

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 

B-JA002 How to Make Crochet Lace, 2nd Album, Collection C.B.
Crocheted laces to imitate Torchon, Venetian, Guipure, Cluny, Screen laces. 71 numbered pages not including covers. Popular book, original in French but because of market demand translated in English.
From the collection of Judith Adele, scanned by Nettie Kraaij, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.

Lace making, especially bobbin lace, requires lots of tools. Bobbins, pins, a pillow, a cover to keep the work safe, perforated patterns, all needing money and room to be kept. No wonder that imitation lace became very popular, once crocheting became a common pastime. Imitation lace used to be made with very fine thread, but as fashions changed crochet lace patterns have also been executed in coarser threads, making the work go faster and also not requiring a loupe to properly admire the result.  Many of the motifs in this book recur in later crochet publications, a testimony to their enduring charm and usefulness.