FUNDRAISING
OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN HAS STARTED! GOAL: 5000 USD / 6125 CAD AND CURRENTLY AT 79%
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. If slippers as Christmas present are your thing, now is the time to start in on this slipper top.
NEW PUBLICATION
O-TL002 Seiffert & Co. 3439 – Morning glories slipper top
Handpainted Berlin woolwork pattern. Slipper top in cross-stitch or tapisserie. Morning glories, flowers and leaves on a dark red background.
From the collection of the Textile Research Center in Leiden, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma. Original donated to TRC as part of the Stevan-Bathoorn collection.
The sheer number of slipper top designs in Berlin woolwork is staggering. Apparently these were very popular objects to embroider, and as they were in use and therefore would wear out, new slippers would always be needed. Usually the soles and inner work would be added by a professional shoemaker, but for ladies who would prefer to do the work themselves there were guides such as the Every Lady Her Own Shoemaker manual. After all embroidered slippers were a status symbol, but paying for a shoemaker might be too expensive for a status-minded but not so rich household. Very useful in our current time, where slipper makers are rare and even more expensive. This morning glories slipper top would be an attention-grabbing show-off, especially if some beadwork would be added, for instance to the leaf veining.