FUNDRAISING

OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN HAS STARTED!  GOAL: 5000 USD / 6125 CAD AND CURRENTLY AT 77%

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 

O-TL001 Journal des Demoiselles – Slipper top in black and gold embroidery on red
Embossed pattern on red cardboard. Slipper top with black applique embroidered with gold diamonds, surrounded with curls of black cord and beading. The corresponding slipper heelband is also in the catalog, part of Marleen van Horssens collection.
From the collection of the Textile Research Center in Leiden, edited by Sytske Wijnsma. Original donated to TRC as part of the Stevan-Bathoorn collection.

And here’s the link to the heelband

A-MH188 Journal des Demoiselles – Slipper heelband in black and gold embroidery on red
Embossed pattern on red cardboard. Slipper heelband with black applique embroidered with gold diamonds, surrounded with curls of black cord and beading. Attributed to Journal des Demoiselles because they published the corresponding slipper top. From the collection of Marleen van Horssen, edited by Sytske Wijnsma 

The Journal des Demoiselles gave these patterns as a supplement to their subscribers. To encourage subscriber loyalty the heelband and slipper top were included in separate issues, so if you wanted to be sure to get a complete pattern, you’d have to buy more than one issue.