FUNDRAISING

OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN HAS STARTED!  GOAL: 5000 USD / 7000 CAD AND CURRENTLY AT 16%!

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!  

Your donation pays for costs of supporting our projects such as scanners and other hardware, the occasional shipping costs for people who want to donate books but can’t afford the transatlantic shipping costs, general costs such as internet service provider, office address, and our application for charity status. Volunteers do the scanning and editing, and new books are paid from our private purses. 

Occasionally we get the question “Why don’t you just sell your stuff, you’d need no donation then?” which is correct, but not in accordance with the idea that our heritage should be available to everybody who wants to use or appreciate it, and profit is no part of that. To keep that, we do need donations. So, if you have a couple dollars to spare, we’d be glad to have them!

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!

And now for the new publication:

FIRST LESSONS IN EMBROIDERY

P-NK004 Needlecraft Ltd – First Lessons in Embroidery
No. 5 in a series of “First Lessons”, The Practical Needlework Teacher. Explanations and photos of various embroidery stitches. Running stitch, Darning, Back Stitching, Twisted Back Stitching, Back Stitch and Rice Stitch, Crewel Stitch, Outline Stitch, Couching, Cross Stitch, Chain Stitch, Picot Stitch, Herringbone Stitch, Coral or Feather Stitch, Fancy Coral Stitch, Close Buttonholing, Spaced Buttonholing, Scalloped Buttonholing, Satin Stitch, Long and Short Stitch as an Outlining, Long and Short Stitch as a Filling, Oriental Stitch, and French Knots.
Softcover stapled, 16 pages including covers. Printed in blue ink. Scanned 600dpi png.
From the collection of Iva Rose Reproductions. Scans donated by Nettie Kraaij, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.

First Lessons is an appropriate description of the technical level – this booklet is clearly aimed at absolute beginners. Useful for teaching basic embroidery in primary schools, or as study material for people who never had needlework lessons at school. When (long, long ago) I was a primary school pupil we made a sampler with embroidery stitches and nearly all embroidery stitches mentioned in this booklet were included. That has been sufficient for most of my needlework and embroidery since. For more complicated stitches, the Royal School of Needlework has a Stitch Bank with an amazing number of stitches (the Plaited Braid stitch is my personal favorite).