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! This centerpiece and placemat would do great in red, green, and gold 🙂 

NEW PUBLICATION 

E-WM065 American Thread Company Star Leaflet 34 – Crocheted Luncheon Set With Inserts of Bead Stitch
Single sheet, with instructions for placemat and centerpiece, both crisp and modern looking items. Materials required call for shaded colors and white colors, which can be changed to personal taste and house decoration style.
Donated by Charles Kite, from the collection of his grandmother Folva Miller. Edited by Sytske Wijnsma

These leaflets were easy come, easy go, and relatively few have survived. I’m sure this crocheted luncheon set must have been a favorite of Folva Miller, to have been kept so carefully in her collection. The bead stitch insert really draws attention and reminds us of hemstitched cloths, that might have been too delicate for placemats, whereas this cotton crochet is sturdy enough to survive spilled wine, food spots, and the inevitable high temperature washing cycle that follows. Young girls don’t collect a bridal trousseau anymore, but even without a tablecloth and twelve hand-embroidered napkins this crocheted luncheon set would be useful for small starter households, and it’d surely look beautiful on an otherwise simple table.