Welcome!
This ongoing project is an effort to scan craft pattern publications that are in the public domain,
to preserve them, so we can keep our craft heritages in our hands. Most of these scans have been graphically
edited to make the images easier for craft workers to see, and to reduce file sizes. They are available,
for free, to anyone who wants them, for educational, personal, artistic and other creative uses.
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American Thread Company
A Table Setting of Dignity
Leaflet No. 72-8.36
American Thread Company
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A single sheet with a repeating crochet pattern for a table cloth. Can of course be put to other uses.
Scans donated by Kathryn Roloff, edited by Yvonne DeBandi.
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G-KR002
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HA10
Crochet KR
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Blue cross motif
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Handpainted partial cross motif, single color.
Scan donated by Jackie Isler, charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
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F-IS029
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HA10
Embroidery Cross-stitch IS
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Nebeling, A.
Methode de Coupe
1er Volume, Vetements de dames.
Bruxelles, 1894
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The Mastership-System, garment cutting for ladies garments. 72 pages with patterns and method of drafting. Incomplete, page 63 and 64 are missing. More detailed and more "French" than Thornton.
Book donated by Antiquariaat de Salamander, scanned by Willem Kraaij, edited by Sytske Wijnsma. Transferred to Rijksmuseum Research Library, 2017-10-07.
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H-AB007
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HA10
Sewing RMT-HA07 AB
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Teschendorff, Toni
Kreuzstich-Muster fur Leinenstickerei
Heft II [2]
Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth
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The second album with traditional embroidery patterns from Toni Teschendorff. A folder with ten lithographed plates.
Scanned and published by permission of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
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H-RM030
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HA10
Embroidery Cross-stitch RM
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Vere Foster
Leaves
Vere Foster's complete course of Drawing. Price Ninepence. 4. New Edition, in Eighteen Parts. Each Part complete in iteself. Blackie & Son, Limited: London, Glasgow, and Dublin
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, Old Bailey.
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Vere Foster's Complete Course of Drawing, With Instructions. Freehand Series. Leaves from Nature - Ornamental Foliage.
Scans donated by Seya Wijnsma-Spek, edited by Sytske Wijnsma. Transferred to the Rijksmuseum Research Library 07-10-2017
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H-WS009
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HA10
Drawing WS
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Cataloguers needed!
We badly need trained librarians or scholars in humanities, to help make our catalog useful and conforming to standards, and teach other volunteers how to do this.
If you have some training in cataloguing, we'd be very glad for your help. As many or as few hours you would be willing to spend on it, it all would help.
Contact Judith or Sytske via the Yahoo group, or send a mail to the info address above. Thank you!
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Who we are
Antique Pattern Library is a project of New Media Arts, Inc., a nonprofit
corporation tax exempt under IRC (501)(c)(3). EIN 27-2500171.
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Licensing
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Conditions of Use
By downloading the files, you are agreeing to the following conditions:
The files are scans of books which are now in the public domain. Although the originals have no copyright, the scans are the works of
the owners or scanners of the books and, as such, are copyrighted. The owners of the books give permission for you to download and use
these file for educational and personal use.
You are free to copy and distribute the scans, as electronic or hard copies, free of charge and to make derivative works under the
following conditions:
You must attribute the borrowed elements to the original title and author of the publication For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of these works Any of these conditions can be waived if you get written permission from the copyright holder (the current owner of the original book) You do not have permission to sell these copies in any format. You may give copies away, you may not sell them.
There is more information on the library at The Antique Pattern Library Yahoo Group. We use this Yahoo group to email newsletters
when we add new books to the library, to post information about donating book scans, website space, or time to the project, and to
help organize volunteers.
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How You Can Help
Cash donations are always welcome, they pay for our website hosting and other library costs.
If you have a book you would like to scan for the library, please see these guidelines (follow the link below).
We are always looking for old craft books! We also need volunteers to do graphics editing and to help proofread
our catalog listings. Please see the Yahoo Groups link below to find out where to volunteer. Thank you!
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