FUNDRAISING
OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN HAS STARTED! GOAL: 5000 USD / 6125 CAD AND CURRENTLY AT 80%
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! If the time is too short to make an entire Halloween rug, try it as cross-stitch pattern or as diamond painting design!
NEW PUBLICATION
E-WM068 Helen Marvin – Handmade Rugs
Small stapled booklet, 24 pages not including covers. Handmade Rugs, Crocheted, knitted, braided, hooked and embroidered. As the introduction says, making modern reproductions whch, while quite as lovely as the old rugs, have been simplified in design and workmanship to fit the needs of the needlewoman of today. There’s a Halloween witch rug pattern and one that clearly is from before WW2 which would not be suitable to make and display in modern times. For the footstool covers smaller Berlin woolwork floral patterns can be used instead of the patterns offered for sale here, which will no longer be available.
Donated by Charles Kite, from the collection of his grandmother Folva Miller, scanned by Seya Wijnsma-Spek and edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
While we strongly disapprove of at least one of the designs in this book, at the time it was printed this was a perfectly normal pattern. It’s the events since that have made it a no-no. However, if you switch colors around and, hmm, omit certain blocks, an adapted pattern might be quite ok.