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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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Editions Th. De Dillmont (publ.)
Franges Nouées
Editions Th. De Dillmont
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68 pages including cover. 20 plates of complex knotted fringes, each with instructions on how to make the individual knots and group them together. Strong links with macrame work. This copy printed October 1928.
Scans donated by Nettie Kraaij, edited by Sytske Wijnsma. Transferred to Rijksmuseum Research Library, 2020-02-21.
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C-YS593
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K127I
Knotting Macrame NK
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Gluehr, Louis (publ.)
Flower bouquet
10648
Louis Gluehr, Berlin.
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Handpainted pattern on single sheet, flower bouquet with a red and pink flower (rose?), bluebells and white marguerites.
Scan donated by Mark van der Voort, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
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K-MV001
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K127H
Embroidery Charted BerlinWork Cross-stitch Bouquet MV
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Modern Handcraft (publ.)
The Workbasket Vol. 9 No. 5
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, Modern Handcraft, Inc.
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8 pages, page 4 and 5 combined to one. Tatting: Lesson 2 on How To Tat. Cross-stitch / Crochet: Picture chair set or pillow top "Let's be friends" with horse and dog. Crochet: Knot Stitch Scarf.
Scans donated by Melora Leigh Martin, edited by Sytske Wijnsma. Published with kind permission of F+W Media, the current copyright holder.
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K127G
Charted Embroidery Cross-stitch Crochet Tatting ML
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Modern Handcraft (publ.)
The Workbasket Vol. 9 No. 4
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, Modern Handcraft, Inc.
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8 pages, 4 and 5 combined to one. Crochet: handbag. Tatting: How to tat, Lesson 1. Quilting: Basket of Roses. Knitting: Victory Stripe Afghan or Baby Robe.
Scans donated by Melora Leigh Martin, edited by Sytske Wijnsma. Published with kind permission of F+W Media, the current copyright holder.
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K127F
Crochet Tatting Quilting Knitting ML
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Modern Handcraft (publ.)
The Workbasket Vol. 9 No. 7
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, Modern Handcraft, Inc.
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8 pages, 4 and 5 combined to one. Crochet: Pineapple panholder, Grapefruit panholder. Quilting: Gardener's Prize. Tatting: Tatted Edgings, five different one-shuttle designs.
Scans donated by Melora Leigh Martin, edited by Sytske Wijnsma. Published with kind permission of F+W Media, the current copyright holder.
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K127E
Crochet Tatting Quilting ML
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Kuehn, Heinrich (publ.)
Moderne Stickvorlagen
No. 546
Heinrich Kuehn, Berlin.
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6 page leporello, large size. One side 2-color designs, reverse side omitted: contains incomplete alphabets of which a complete version is already elsewhere in the catalog.
Scans donated and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
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B-YS040
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K127D
Cross-stitch Charted Embroidery SW
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Hauser, P.
Frivolités
Entworfen u. ausgeführt v. P. Hauser
1920, Art Institute Orell Füssli, Zürich
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Softcover, 62 pages not including cover. Two parts, first explanation and designs for tatted edgings, second application of tatting to clothes and household linens.
Scans donated and edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
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K127C
Tatting SW
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Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine (publ.)
The Pompadour Bow Slipper
Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine
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Single sheet litho, supplement of Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine. Dated July 1869. Pattern of a red slipper with black and white dots, and a green bow on the front. The original pattern specifies yarn in red, white, black and three shades of green, and two colors of beads.
Scan donated by Matthijs Ufkes, charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
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K127B
Slipper Embroidery Cross-stitch BerlinWork Beading MU
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Modern Handcraft; Inc. (publ.)
Aunt Ellen's How To Book on Needlework
for readers of The Workbasket
1954 Modern Handcraft Inc., Kansas City 11, MO.
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64 pages including covers. A guide for beginners and reference for experienced needleworkers, explaining the basics of crochet (including left-handed crocheting), hairpin lace, knitting, tatting, netting, embroidery, smocking, huck weaving, needlepoint, rug making, hemstitching, and miscellanous: twisted cord, trapunto quilting, pompon, and machine embroidery.
Scans donated and edited by Adrienne Kattke, Published with kind permission of F+W Media, the current copyright holder.
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K127A
Crochet Embroidery Tatting Knitting Edge Netting Quilting AK
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Nacke, Louise
Bags of all kinds in Crochet Book No. 5
Book No. 5
1916, Jacob Frank Mercantile Co. , St. Louis, MO
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The beautiful selection of bags shown in this book will appeal to every woman. There is a Bag suited to every taste and for every occasion. 16 pages softcover. Handbags and party bags, vanity bags and purses.
Scans donated and edited by Martha Ess.
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K-ME003
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K1279
Crochet purse ME
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Modern Handcraft Inc. (publ.)
The Workbasket Volume 11 No. 8 - May 1946
Home and Needlecraft for Pleasure and Profit
Modern Handcraft Inc., Kansas City, MO
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8 pages. Crochet: Crocheted lace and insertion, small doily, stove mat and panholder. Sewing: corners for hemstitching.
From the collection of Sarah Dalton, scanned by Seya Wijnsma-Spek, edited by Sytske Wijnsma. Published with kind permission of F+W Media, the current copyright holder. Transferred to Rijksmuseum Research Library, 2017.
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K1278
Crochet Doilies Lace SD
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Modern Handcraft Inc. (publ.)
The Workbasket, Volume 11 No. 7 - April 1946
Home and Needlecraft for Pleasure and Profit
Modern Handcraft Inc., Kansas City, MO
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8 pages, 4 and 5 joined to one. Crochet: gloves, bags, Bible bookmark, tray cloth. Quilting: Trumpet Flower Quilt
From the collection of Sarah Dalton, scanned by Seya Wijnsma-Spek, edited by Sytske Wijnsma. Published with kind permission of F+W Media, the current copyright holder. Transferred to Rijksmuseum Research Library, 2017.
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Crochet Quilting SD
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Vorlagen Waschezeichnen
Heft 2
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Small oblong leporello with 10 pages mainly alphabets suitable for linen marking, and some mottos in French and German, borders, and a butterfly.
Scans donated and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
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I-YS006
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K1276
Alphabet Edge Charted Cross-stitch Embroidery SW
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Bernat, Paul (ed.)
The Handicrafter
March April 1930 Vol. II [2] No. 3
Emile Bernat & Sons Co., Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
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52 pages including covers. How-to articles about samplers, weaving, simple furniture making, embroidery. Others showcasing objects and projects.
Much more varied than the later Bernat Handicrafter.
Scans donated by Sandra Bejster, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
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K-SB001
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K1275
Weaving Filet Sampler Furniture SB
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Riego de la Branchardiere,
The Crochet Book
Second Series
1848 London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.
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In which is given an entirely new style in Flowers and Leaves. 36 pages, 10 patterns for collars and edgings.
Scans donated and edited by Sytske Wijnsma. Transferred to Rijksmuseum Research Library, 31-01-2020.
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K-YS001
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K1274
Crochet SW
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Willy Kurth
Alt-Deutsche Holzschnitt-Kunst
Sechzig Holzschnitte von Durer, Baldung Grien, Altdorfer, Cranach, Holbein und anderen Meistern des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts
Verlag Fritz Hender, Berlin-Zehlendorf [1920]
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Hardcover, cardboard with linen back. 100 pages, 19 of which are text with illustrations, and 36 plates. Beautiful clear prints of old woodcuts by German masters of the art. The first one is colored.
Scans donated by Matthijs Ufkes, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
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K1273
Drawing costume MU
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Pfeuffer, Augusta
Artistic Crocheted Yokes
With Instructions
E.C. Spuehler, St. Louis, MO
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16 page monochrome booklet, illustrated with photographs of completed yokes, with pattern descriptions in rather small letters.
Scans donated and edited by Martha Ess
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K1272
Crochet ME
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Riego de la Branchardiere, Mlle
The Royal Tatting Book
Edgings and Borders
1864 London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., And the Berlin Warehouses
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Small oblong booklet, containing The Denmark Antimacassar, Edging (Lily of the Valley Pattern), Vandyke Border, Border (Mignionette Pattern), Narrow Edging, Simple Edging, Oval D'Oyley or Antimacassar, Guipure Trimming, Insertion.
Scans donated and edited by Martha Ess.
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K-ME001
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K1271
Tatting Edge Doilies ME
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Modern Handcraft, Inc. (publ.)
The Workbasket Vol. 23 No. 9
June 1958
[Kansas City]
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Tatted Rose Doily, Tatted Cup and Saucer, Knitted doily, crocheted Mosaic Scarf, and the usual gardening and cooking pages.
Magazine donated by Sarah Dalton, scanned by Seya Wijnsma-Spek, edited by Sytske Wijnsma. Published with kind permission of F+W Media, the current copyright holder.
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I-WB239
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K1270
Tatting Crochet Knitlace Knitting WB
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