FUNDRAISING

OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN HAS STARTED!  GOAL: 5000 USD / 6125 CAD AND CURRENTLY AT 82%

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! 

NEW PUBLICATION 

B-SW069 Philip Whithard – Illuminating and Missal Painting
Small hardcover bound book, 8 pages title, preface, list of contents, 148 numbered pages, 1 color page, 6 pages advertisements, 16 pages lists of other titles from the same publisher. Practical instructions about writing, illuminating, drawing, gilding. Mostly text, examples of old writing in black and white as illustrations. Chapter headings have a calligraphed initial letter. Recipe for gesso on the black flyleaf. Book was given as school prize in 1927.
Scans donated by Seya Wijnsma-Spek, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.

Although handpainted missals are not much in demand these days, the techniques used by the medieval illuminators will be useful to everybody who aims to write and decorate beautiful documents. Greeting cards, certificates, cards for festive occasions, kitchen labels, and many other items where calligraphy (even if it isn’t in an ancient script) will show a touch of individuality that can never be replaced by printed fonts. The old handwritten and handpainted books are truly works of art and everybody practicing this ancient art of illuminating can be considered an artist as far as their capacities can go.