FUNDRAISING

OUR FUNDRAISING HAS REACHED – NO, EXCEEDED – ITS GOAL! CURRENTLY AT 115% and we can declare it succesful!

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!  

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 here is the new publication:

Maison sajou – Album de Lettres – 366 Marques

C-XX045 Maison Sajou – Album de Lettres – 366 Marques
Five monochrome alphabets,one small, two medium size and one medium but wider than the other two. Light grey cover.
Oblong stapled softcover, 8 pages with one side printed in blue and the other blank. Size 8,3 x 5,3 inch. Scanned 600dpi png.
Scans donated, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.

There are so many Sajou booklets that we cannot hope to get them all. Even so, if one shows up on ebay, etsy, delcampe, or elsewhere and we don’t have it yet (and the price is not absurd) we’ll take it, just in case there’s this one alphabet that you are looking for, or inspired by. Narrow or wide, large or small, simple or complex, there is always an alphabet with exactly that letter you are looking for! And remember, if you make a sampler, sewing, embroidery, or any other type of needlework, mark it with your initials and with the year it was made. I see new copies of antique samplers that were made with the antique initials and dates, and it’s a pity that people do such a lot of needlework and then don’t add their own initials and date. You’ve done the work, you should have the credit.