FUNDRAISING

OUR FUNDRAISING HAS REACHED – NO, EXCEEDED – ITS GOAL! CURRENTLY AT 115% and more donations are still coming in!

To keep our Library up and running, we hold a fundraising campaign from September to December. It has been succesful, thank you all!

This is the link to the donation button: Donate to keep the Antique Pattern Library running!  

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And here is the new publication:

Star Stoles and Shawls Book No. 86

M-CB016 Star Stoles and Shawls Book No. 86
Knitting: Park Avenue, Nob Hill, Beacon Hill, Country Club, Plaza. Crochet: Peachtree Street, La Louisian, Wilshire, Campus Queen. Hairpin Lace: Esplanade, Gold Coast, Metropolian. All patterns are illustrated. Dated 1951.
Softcover stapled, 16 pages including cover. Scanned 600dpi jpg.
Scans donated by Clara Bruning, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.

This book has twelve ways of covering your shoulders and/or head, in a time that bare shoulders were inappropriate in public, except in gala parties, and bare heads in public were often considered inappropriate as well, especially in church. That’s because St. Paul mentions that women should cover their hair in public. I do remember photographs of my mother and aunts as young adults, all wearing a hat or shawl in public. How times have changed! But the stoles and shawls in this book are nice and still useful, when it’s too cold in just a tank top. Though maybe the one that looks like netting wouldn’t help much against wind and cold! Look through this book and maybe you’ll find one that would serve your purpose, either decoration or warmth or maybe both!