Crocheting and knitting advertisements
FUNDRAISING
OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN HAS STARTED! GOAL: 5000 USD / 6125 CAD AND CURRENTLY AT 95%!
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 PUBLICATIONs
L-NK005 Isaac D. Allen & Co – Directions for Crocheting Ladies’ Ripple Cape
Small advertisement leaflet, probably originally titled Ladies’ Umbrella Cape. Two pages of directions, last page advertisement for yarns.
From the collection of Iva Rose Reproductions, scanned by Nettie Kraaij, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
L-NK004 Isaac D. Allen & Co – Directions for Knitting Ladies’ Slumber Socks
Small advertisement leaflet. Included are Directions for Crocheting Infant’s Socks. List of other published pattern leaflets with an advertisement for slipper soles.
From the collection of Iva Rose Reproductions, scanned by Nettie Kraaij, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
L-NK003 Isaac D. Allen & Co – Directions for Crocheting Infant’s Yoke Jacket
Small advertising leaflet, with a note that complaints have been received but that the directions are correct if one uses the yarn that is named. Two pages of advertisment for yarns made by the publishers company.
From the collection of Iva Rose Reproductions, scanned by Nettie Kraaij, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
For lovers of crocheting and knitting old-fashioned items, here are three small advertisement leaflets with patterns for capes, socks, and baby jacket. Times haven’t changed that much, since modern yarn producers still publish pattern leaflets in the hopes of selling more yarn. In a note the publisher of these leaflets gently chides complainants who use another yarn and then expect the same results.