FUNDRAISING

OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN HAS STARTED!  GOAL: 5000 USD / 6125 CAD AND CURRENTLY AT 86%

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-SW058 F. Fischbach – Damenwelt 1888-36
Small cardboard card, part of an incomplete collection. On one side a pattern chart with an alphabet in dark red, a large floral motif in bright red and a small motif in dark blue. On the other side Wise Proverbs. The first says that if you walk barefeet, you won’t feel bothered by lack of shoes when you see someone else lacking both feet. Second says that if you are happy with the entire world but most happy with yourself, that is the best fate that could befall you and I wish it for you and myself. The third says that for a possession to make you happy, you have to have won it yourself, and that for joy is to be felt fully, first your suffering has to be defeated.
Scans donated, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.

These cards contained sewing instructions, beginners crochet stitches, tatting patterns, whitework initials, cross-stitch embroidery patterns, and often on the back a few proverbs. They were issued by the Zwirnerei und Nähfadenfabrik Göggingen (sewing thread factory) and could be collected and kept together in a small cardboard folder, marked by the year. The cards are sometimes offered on sale on auction sites, but collections are rare and complete collections even more so. 

F. Fischbach arranged these patterns and is therefore listed as author.