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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Journal des Demoiselles (publ.)
Chair seat
Antique-original-Printed-Chart-For-Embroidery-Tapestry-France-Journal 233630862785
Journal des Demoiselles
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Litho, supplement of the French magazine Journal des Demoiselles. Black background with colored frame and empty center.
If a rectangular frame is desired, the top or bottom can be mirrored.
Image donated by ebay seller anncoll_13, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
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BerlinWork Embroidery Chairseat Charted Tapestry AC
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Wm. H. Horstmann Company (publ.)
English Styles
Columbia Book of Yarn Fashions Volume 71
Wm. H. Horstmann Company, Philadelphia
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16 pages not including covers. Knitting with tweed yarn. Dresses, suits, ensembles. No date given.
From the collection of Iva Rose Reproductions, donated by Peggy April. Scanned and edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
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Knitting PA
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Guilmard, Desire
La Connaissances des Styles d'Ornamentation
D. Guilmard, Paris, Rue de Bondy 46
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Book with 42 plates of various styles of ornament, mostly architectural and furniture. Each plate has numerous designs. The styles illustrated run from Roman to Restoration.
Scans donated by Peter Ketels, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
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Furniture Architecture PK
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Journal des Dames & Demoiselles
Geometrical border in primary colors
May 1857
Sajou, 52 Rue de Rambuteau, Paris
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Handpainted pattern, supplement to the Journal des Dames & Demoiselles, dated May 1857. Geometrical border in primary colors.
Scan donated and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
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Embroidery BerlinWork Charted Cross-stitch Tapestry SW
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Workbasket Pattern Sheet 63
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Pattern sheet from the publishers of the Workbasket. This sheet was printed in dark red, and contains patterns for a hobby horse, a stole, seven tea towels (one for each day of the week), two cross-stitch patterns for linens, and a cut-work border pattern of pansies.
Scan donated and edited by Sytske Wijnsma. Published with kind permission of F+W Media, the current copyright holder.
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Embroidery Charts Cross-stitch Cutwork SW
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Borner, Bruno (publ.)
17714
Antique-Hand-Painted-Pattern-Berlin-Needlework-History-Church-1800s 264711381734
Bruno Borner, Berlin
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Painted Berlin woolwork pattern on cream cardboard, showing a church in a landscape. 70x100 stitches.
Image donated by ebay seller joan10605, charted by Sytske Wijnsma. Pattern from her grandmother's needlework studio in Manhattan, LaMer's Studio, from 1909-1967, where she taught needlework and did work for musea and famous customers.
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Embroidery Tapestry Charted Cross-stitch JO
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Societe Anonyme des Filatures et Teintureries de Saint-Epin (publ.)
Aiguille et Crochet - Vetements de Sport pour Enfants
Travaux de Laine
Societe Anonyme des Filatures et Teintureries de Saint-Epin
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40 pages including covers. Thirteen knitting patterns for sport outfits for children.
Scans donated and edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
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Knitting SW
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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 groups.io/g/antiquepatternlibrary 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
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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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