FUNDRAISING

OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN HAS STARTED!  GOAL: 5000 USD / 6125 CAD AND CURRENTLY AT 89%

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 

H-XX034 Kiesewetter and Steffahny – Das Baby
Softcover almost square book, forword for first and second edition, 54 numbered pages, 6 pages advertisements, two pattern sheets. All about baby clothing and furniture, embroidery patterns, sewing patterns and some lovely illustrations of babies and children. No date. Fraktur script, and style of illustrations date this around 1910.
Scans donated by Nettie Kraaij, edited by Sytske Wijnsma

This baby book gives a good impression of how babies in wealthy families were dressed and housed. Obviously when people were poor and lived with a whole family in a single room nothing in this book would be useful to them, and the clothing and linens wouldn’t be practical in a time when laundry was done by hand. Very different from a modern baby book. Even now when we leave the laundry to the washing machine and dryer, these beautiful embroidered and sewn baby things would need handwashing and careful ironing, for which few parents have time and even fewer can afford household help to take over those tasks. But there are some lovely little embroidery motifs and the animal frieze used to decorate the nursery can be used elsewhere as well.