FUNDRAISING

OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN HAS STARTED!  GOAL: 5000 USD / 6125 CAD AND CURRENTLY AT 59%

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 

M-TH005 Red flowers and buds
Fragment of a handpainted Berlin woolwork pattern, top right part of the sheet showing the number. Small motif, a green branch with red flowers and buds.
Image donated by an ebay seller who would prefer to be anonymous, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.

Small motifs like these were used to embroider cigar cases, portefeuilles, small purses and other personal items. The original sheet probably contained six or more different motifs. Since only the pattern number and not the publishers name is known, we haven’t been able to trace the origin yet. That should not stop anybody from using this charming motif for their own purposes, now that cigar cases are a bit out of fashion. A motif like this would also be great for a needlework sampler. The well-known Berlin woolwork samplers of the 19th Century contained not only repeating patterns and border designs, but also similar motifs.