FUNDRAISING

OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN HAS STARTED!  GOAL: 5000 USD / 6125 CAD AND CURRENTLY AT 28%

To keep our Library up and running, we hold a fundraising campaign from September to December, the success of which determines whether we get to exist another year.

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! This new Workbasket will show you more examples – as if we didn’t have enough projects already 🙂

NEW PUBLICATION: EMBROIDERY AND TAPESTRY WEAVING

C-YS337 Mrs. Archibald Christie – Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving
Hardcover cloth bound small book. First part on the subject of embroidery, tools and materials, pattern designing, stitches, canvas work, methods of work, gold and silver thread work, finishing touches. Second part about tapestry weaving, appliances and materials, work preparation, weaving technique including starting and finishing. Added to this sixteen plates of weaving and embroidery work. Part of the Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks Edited by W.R. Lethaby.
Scans donated and edited by Sytske Wijnsma.

If you are an avid embroiderer or tapestry weaver it’ll be interesting to see how the craft has moved forward in a century, and for beginners it is a good introduction.

The author says that the focus was on the practical sides of the craft, and the historical development would be only incidentally touched upon, as was usual for all the Artistic Craft series books and which makes it valuable to current practitioners but less to historians. This edition is 100 years old and the original text is older still so lots of development occurred since then.