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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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Falba, G.E. (publ.)
Embroidered Book Cover
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G.E. Falbe
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Single sheet, cream paper. Pattern intended for a book cover, front and back different motifs in identical frame, and a narrow strip for the back of the book. Choice of background color was left to the embroideress.
Scan donated by Mark van der Voort, charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
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JA034
BerlinWork Beading Charted Cross-stitch Embroidery MV
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The Workbasket Vol. 8 No. 3
Home and Needlecraft for Pleasure and Profit Ideas for the Bazaar, the Home, Gifts and Sparetime Moneymakers - with Many Inexpensive, Easily Made Articles that find a Ready Sale
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8 pages, page 4 and 5 combined to one. Stocking dolls, quilting: Poinsettia Quilt, toy Donkey, crochet: Crocheted Slippers.
Scans donated by M. Leigh Martin, edited by Sytske Wijnsma. Published with kind permission of F+W Media, the current copyright holder.
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Crochet Dolls Quilting ML
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Schreiber and Scholtz (publ.)
Paper theaters, decors, and dolls
Riesen-Konvolut-antikes-Schreiber-und-Scholz-Papiertheater-seltene-Szenenbilder-271681101230
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A collection of paper cutouts to be used for theatres in shoeboxes and displays. Complete with coulisses and little paper actors. End 19th century. A truly phenomenal collection.
Permission to publish images donated by ebay seller chaos!sternchen, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
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Theatre Paper Dolls CS
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Stuart, Jemima
1876 Jemima Stuart sampler
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Twelve photos of a sampler, as yet uncharted. Dated 1876. Two sets of initals in a frame, JSJB and JJS. Name Jemima Jeannie Stuart, Mill of Crannah, Marnoch July 26th 1876. Other initials CB MB CB MA. A larger and smaller uppercase alphabet and small lowTwelve photos of a sampler, as yet uncharted. Dated 1876. Two sets of initals in a frame, JSJB and JJS. Name Jemima Jeannie Stuart, Mill of Crannah, Marnoch July 26th 1876. Other initials CB MB CB MA. A larger and smaller alphabet and various small motifs.
Photos reproduced by permission of ebay seller cockleheart.
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E-CO001
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Embroidery Sampler Cross-stitch CO
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Hertz & Wegener (publ.)
Two flower motifs
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Hertz & Wegener, Berlin
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Single sheet with two flower motifs, white with copper and brown leaves on a dark red background.
From the collection of the Textile Research Center in Leyden (acquisition number TRC 2018.1561), published with their permission. Charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
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JA033
Embroidery BerlinWork Charted Cross-stitch TL
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Die Häkelarbeit - IV.Serie
D.M.C. Mulhouse, 1924.
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Crochet album, crochet lace edgings and corners and some lace grounds. Two plates of dresses and lingerie showing possible applications.
Scans donated and edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
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Corner Edge Crochet SW
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Louis Gluehr (publ.)
Rose bouquet
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Louis Gluehr, Berlin.
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Handpainted Berlin woolwork pattern on gray paper. A bouquet of three white roses with copper and brown leaves. Included another version with pink roses and grayscale leaves.
From the collection of the Textile Research Center in Leyden (acquisition number TRC 2018.1562), published with their permission. Charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
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JA032
Embroidery BerlinWork Charted Cross-stitch TL
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Dickens, Charles. illustrator: Bernard, F.
Martin Chuzzlewit
London, Chapman & Hall, 1872 [completed 1844]
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Illustrations from the Household Edition of the Charles Dickens' novel, excellent for theater and costume research. Martin Chuzzlewit is set in the United States, 1840's.
From the collection of Frans Wijnsma, scanned by Seya Wijnsma-Spek, edited by Judith Adele
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Dickens CVL Illustration FW
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The Workbasket Vol. 8 No. 2
Home and Needlecraft for Pleasure and Profit Ideas for the Bazaar, the Home, Gifts and Sparetime Moneymakers - with Many Inexpensive, Easily Made Articles that find a Ready Sale
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8 pages, page 4 and 5 combined to one. Corn Shuck Novelties (buttons, corsages, flowers, bracelet, rugs, wastebasket, fruit bowl, slippers). Quilting: Indian Plume Quilt.
Scans donated by M. Leigh Martin, edited by Sytske Wijnsma. Published with kind permission of F+W Media, the current copyright holder.
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Floral motif
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Fragment of handpainted Berlin woolwork pattern on cream paper. Flowers from a cornucopia-like swirl.
From the collection of the Textile Research Center in Leyden (acquisition number TRC 2018.1557), published with their permission. Charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
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JA031
Embroidery BerlinWork Charted Cross-stitch TL
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Th. Wilh Meister (publ.)
Two flower motifs
9285
Th. Wilh Meister vorm A. Todt in Berlin
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Handpainted Berlin woolwork pattern on gray paper. Two flower motifs each 90 by 30 stitches, with blue, white, pink and red flowers.
From the collection of the Textile Research Center in Leyden (acquisition number TRC 2018.1577), published with their permission. Charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
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Embroidery Charted Cross-stitch BerlinWork TL
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Stanley, Mrs. H.M. (Dorothy Tennant)
London Street Arabs
1890, Cassell & Company, Limited. London, Paris & Melbourne.
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12 pages text, 28 plates. Beautifully bound book, pages gilded on three sides. Illustrations of the children in the poor quarters of London, with one illustration of a "mer-baby" on the beach. Mrs. Stanley was the wife of the explorer Stanley.
Book donated by one of the antiquarians on the Spui bookmarket in Amsterdam, scanned and edited by Sytske Wijnsma. Transferred to Rijksmuseum Research Library, 2019-10-18.
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CVL MT
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Bossert, Dr. Helmuth Th.
Ein Altdeutscher Totentanz
Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin
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32 pages including covers. Medieval woodblock prints displaying a selection of 13 images from the Heidelberg Dance of Death (total 41), in which Death takes people from every station of life to dance with him, willing or not.
From the collection of Frans Wijnsma, scanned and edited by Sytske Wijnsma. Transferred to Rijksmuseum Research Library, 2019-10-11.
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JA031
Medieval - Renaissance Drawing FW
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The Workbasket Vol. 8 No. 1
Home and Needlecraft for Pleasure and Profit Ideas for the Bazaar, the Home, Gifts and Sparetime Moneymakers - with Many Inexpensive, Easily Made Articles that find a Ready Sale
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8 pages, page 4 and 5 combined into one. Crochet: crocheted corner, Flower garden medallion, Applique Crochet Panholders. Quilting: Fringed Aster Quilt
Scans donated by M. Leigh Martin, edited by Sytske Wijnsma. Published with kind permission of F+W Media, the current copyright holder.
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Corner Crochet Quilting ML
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Unfinished sampler with Frisian letters, in four colors
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Wool embroidery on canvas. Chart slightly rearranged. Actually six colors of wool were used, probably different dye baths.
Scan donated by Jelmer Wijnsma, charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
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Alphabet Embroidery Charted Cross-stitch JJ
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Modes Vraies (publ.)
Large boteh on red background
Modes Vraies
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Single sheet, handpainted, grid 150x150, pattern covers part of grid. Diagonal large boteh motif on a red background, motif is 118w 115h. 12 colors. Supplement of French magazine Modes Vraies, no indication of date. Carelessly painted.
From the collection of La Muse Francaise, charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
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BerlinWork Charted Cross-stitch Embroidery MF
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Journal des Demoiselles (publ.)
Repeating pattern
Journal des Demoiselles
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Lithographed pattern on cream paper, nearly square.
From the collection of Marleen van Horssen, charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
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BerlinWork Embroidery Charted Cross-stitch Repeat MH
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Wilson Anderson, Rose
Jiffy Mittens
Ten original patterns designed for knitting worsted
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16 pages, including cover and blank pages. Knitting patterns and charted designs for mittens in two colors. Instructions for knitting the mittens and tips for finishing, blocking and washing them.
Scans donated by Sandra Bejster, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
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Knitting SB
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Kuehn, Heinrich (publ.)
Striped cat sitting outside
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Heinrich Kuehn, Berlin.
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Handpainted Berlin woolwork pattern showing a striped cat sitting outside under a tree.
Scan donated by Iva Innocenti, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
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The Workbasket Vol. 7 No. 12
Home and Needlecraft for Pleasure and Profit Ideas for the Bazaar, the Home, Gifts and Sparetime Moneymakers - with Many Inexpensive, Easily Made Articles that find a Ready Sale
[Kansas City]
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8 pages, page 4 and 5 combined to one. Crochet: Fruit Panholders, crocheted "needlepoint". Quilting: True Lover's Knot Quit, Bow Tie Quilt, Necktie Quilt.
Scans donated by Sheron Goldin, edited by Sytske Wijnsma. Published with kind permission of F+W Media, the current copyright holder.
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Crochet Quilting SG
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