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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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P. Trübe (publ.)

Filet pattern

4741

P. Trübe in Berlin

Single sheet, printed filet pattern of a bouquet in an abstract border.

Scan donated by Nettie Kraaij, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.

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Lacy Crochet Vest

Free Instruction Leaflet - Design No. 31

Single sheet crochet pattern for a hip-length sleeveless vest with two tassel-ended cords as closure. No publication date or publisher given.

Scans donated by Alex Welch, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.

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Crochet

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United States
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Two beaded bodice decorations

Jet beads sewn to black-lined canvas, two different designs, one with fringe. Both for front of gowns only. Date probably around WW1.

Scans donated and edited by Sytske Wijnsma. Both items transferred to Textile Research Center in Leiden.

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Kropp, E.

Lamp Shades and How to Make Them

D.M. Campana, Chicago

Small booklet, 62 pages not including covers. All about lamp shades of fabric or paper, how to design, color, assemble them. Table lamps, hanging lamps, wall lamps for different rooms in the house, and which subjects are suitable for them. The book is one in a series of "Teacher of [subject]". Some blank pages omitted.

Scans donated by Seya Wijnsma-Spek, edited by Sytske Wijnsma

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Home decoration

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Nacke, Louise

Crocheted Yokes for Corset Covers and Night Gowns

Book No. 4

Jacob Frank Mercantile Co., St. Louis, MO.

Oblong softcover, stapled booklet, 16 pages including covers. Dated 1916. Twelve crocheted yokes, six for nightgowns and six for corset covers. Some yokes are done as filet crochet, those designs are not charted. Back cover omitted because it is blank.

Scans donated by Ashley Polikoff, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.

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Crochet

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United States
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Journal "Silhouettes de Paris" (ed.)

Album de Broderie aux Points de Noeuds

Journal "Silhouettes de Paris" 7, rue Marbeuf, Paris

20 pages not including covers. Patterns and explications about the use of knotted stitches in embroidery. Baby items such as baby bibs, baby shoes, baby cap, baptism robe, cradle cover, cradle sheet, cradle pillow cover, toddler aprons, ladies lingerie, collar, embroidered blouses, tea towels and serviettes, pillow cover and sheet. Circa 1926.

Scans donated and edited by Sytske Wijnsma.

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Heinrich Kuehn, Berlin

Art Deco embroidery patterns

Heinrich Kuehn, Berlin

Handpainted leporello in Art Deco style. Six leaves with patterns in blue, green and yellow. Cover is missing.

From the collection of the former Historical Museum Deventer, published by permission of Deventer Verhaal, its successor. Charted by Sytske Wijnsma.

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Weigel, Hans

Judgment of the Nations

Matth. 25:35-36

Four Bible illustrations from a single sheet, by Hans Weigel (plm 1520-1577) from a set of Bible illustrations. The subject is the Final Judgment, concerning four of the works of mercy. I was a stranger, and you sheltered me. I was naked, and you clothed me. I was ill, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.

Scan donated and edited by Sytske Wijnsma

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Le Moniteur des Dames & des Demoiselles (publ.)

Corner design with yellow swirls and red flowers, border design with blue ribbon

Mars 1857

Le Moniteur des Dames & des Demoiselles

Single sheet, handpainted Berlin woolwork pattern. Supplement to the Moniteur des Dames et Demoiselles issue of March 1857. A corner design with red flowers and yellow swirls, and a separate border design with a blue ribbon. The blue ribbon occurs also as a separate pattern in a Dutch publication, K-EU002, apparently a popular design. The bottom of the pattern mentions Sajou.

Scans donated and edited by Sytske Wijnsma.

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Tapestry

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Cockerell, Douglas

Bookbinding, and the Care of Books

A Text-book for Bookbinders and Librarians

John Hogg, 13 Paternoster Row, London 1915

Drawings by Noel Rooke. One of the leading texts on bookbinding, written when the author couldn't find any instructional texts for his bookbinding courses. Still in print after more than a century. This copy is from 1915, fourth edition, and a number of blank pages has been omitted.

From the estate of Frans Wijnsma, scanned and edited by Sytske Wijnsma.

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Bookbinding

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United Kingdom
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Maison Sajou (publ.)

Album Tapisserie No. 301

Maison Sajou, 74, Bd. Sébastopol, Paris

Small leporello with eight numbered tapestry patterns, mostly floral, one of a bird. The patterns are shown as embroidered in half stitches.

Scans donated by Tamara Wijnsma, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.

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Embroidery

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Tapestry

Cross-stitch

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Coats & Clark's

Easy to make Collars Fashioned in Cotton and Wool

Free Leaflet 586

Coats & Clark's

Single sheet, printed on both sides. Five patterns for crocheted collars. No date given, style looks like the fifties.

Scans donated and edited by Alex Welch

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Crochet

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United States

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!

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

These works are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. To view a copy of this license, visit Creative Commons licenses or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA 94305 USA.

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 forum at groups.io. We use this forum 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.

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 User Forumn link below to find out where to volunteer. Thank you!

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