WALKER’s VARIED OCCUPATIONS IN WEAVING

HAPPY CHRISTMAS, Hanukkah, YULE etc. AND BEST WISHES FOR THE NEW YEAR!

FUNDRAISING

OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN HAS ENDED!  GOAL: 5000 USD AND CURRENTLY AT 105%!

To keep our Library up and running, we hold a fundraising campaign from September to December and I’m happy to say that it reached its goal!

More donations are always welcome 🙂 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 

C-YS184 Louisa Walker – Varied Occupations in Weaving
Small hardcover bound book, containing instructions on how to teach little children paper plaiting, weaving, chair caning and straw work. Many illustrations. Some sections talk of “children” in general, others are focused on “girls” or “boys”. Added instructions on how to make useful and decorative objects from the completed work pieces. Quite useful to help occupying children from kindergarten age at home or in the classroom.
Scans donated by Seya Wijnsma-Spek, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.

This book from 1895 is much like the Varied Occupations in String Work from the same author that we republished earlier (in January). Its main aim is to help teaching children elementary skills in plaiting, weaving, straw work, and caning. Some of those skills are still practiced in schools today, but the Double String Chair Seat Caning definitely isn’t a school subject anymore in every school. If you have little children in the house with Christmas and want to keep them occupied with something that’s not electronics, this book might give you some ideas, as well as sharpening your own skills in these areas.