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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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D.M.C.
Le Crochet
Ie Serie
Editions Th. de Dillmont - Mulhouse [639]
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Softcover bound book, 8 plates of crochet patterns (64 patterns), 22 text pages explaining the patterns, and 16 pages of advertisements for DMC threads and other DMC publications.
Scans donated by Nettie Kraaij, edited by Sytske Wijnsma, book transferred to Rijksmuseum Research Library 2020.
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Crochet NK
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Tidy on Java Canvas
Peterson's Magazine Oct 1875
Peterson's Magazine
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Single sheet, supplement of the October 1875 issue of Peterson's Magazine. Square printed in yellow and black. The colored squared do not exactly match te grid. Pattern suitable for filet work, filet crochet, cross-stitch, beading.
Scans donated by Jackie Isler, from the collection of her grandmother Helen Balmat Gorman, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
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LA05E
Embroidery Filet Filet crochet Charted Cross-stitch Beading IS
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Carter, Eillin E.
Artistic Leather Work
A Handbook on the Art of Decorating Leather
London, E. & F.N. Spon, Ltd., 57 Haymarket, S.W. 1
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Small clothbound hardcover, 8+67 pages. 6 Plates for Work executed by the Author and 21 Illustrations. Second edition. A basic explanation of the types of decoration of leatherwork and how to execute them, together with hints and tips for the beginner.
Scans donated by Seya Wijnsma-Spek, edited by Sytske Wijnsma
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Leatherwork WS
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Kuehn, Heinrich (publ.)
Mountain meadow with house and goats
14678
Heinrich Kuehn, Berlin
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Handpainted Berlin woolwork pattern on tan cardboard. Stitches size 130x180. Many, many colors! Scene shows goats in flowers on the foreground, a meadow with a house behind that, and a forested mountain in the background.
Scans donated by Iva Innocenti, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
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LA05C
BerlinWork Embroidery Cross-stitch Charted II
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Modern Handcraft Inc. (publ.)
The Workbasket Vol. 10 No. 9
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. Crochet: Sailor Hat with matching bag. Sewing: Flowers from fabric scraps. Knitting: Knitted Glass Jackets.
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 Knitting Sewing ML
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American Thread Co. (publ.)
Make it Yourself for Christmas
Star Christmas Book No. 142
American Thread Co., 260 West Broadway, New York 12, NY
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Stapled softcover, 16 pages including covers. Christmas decorations made from yarn. Pom poms, Harlequin, Christmas Bell, Glitter Star, Fluff Star, Christmas Angel, Christmas Bubbles, Basket Doily, Pink Crocheted Glitter, Christmas Cards, Small Santa, Bird, Xmas Tree, Place Card Xmas Tree.
From the collection of Peggy April, scanned by Seya Wijnsma-Spek, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
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Crochet PA
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Kuehn, Heinrich (publ.)
Moderne Stickvorlagen No. 560
Dessins de Broderies Modernes
Heinrich Kuehn, Berlin
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Printed leporello with six pages of patterns for corners, borders, all-over patterns, and a few motifs, most abstract or floral, one with stylized birds. All patterns use the same three colors. No alphabets on the back.
Scans donated by Iva Innocenti, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
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LA059
Embroidery Charted Cross-stitch BerlinWork Beading II
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Six Silver-handled Scissors
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Six different antique Dutch scissors with silver handles. When such scissors would be too worn to use, the handles were taken off and put on another set of blades. Most of these date from the middle of the 19th century.
Borrowed from various sewing baskets and collections, scanned by Sytske Wijnsma.
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LA058
Sewing SW
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American Thread Co. (publ.)
Babies are such fun to dress
Star Baby Book No. 148
American Thread Co.
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32 pages including cover, stapled softcover. All kinds of baby clothes, accessories. Knitted and crocheted baby jackets, hats, booties, mittens, caps, sweaters, onesies, dress. Tatted christening cap and dress edging. Blanket, throw, carriage cover.
From the collection of Peggy April, scanned by Seya Wijnsma-Spek, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
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Crochet Tatting Knitting PA
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Crespel, A. (publ.)
Le Filet Brodé Album No. 7
32 Pages - 115 Modèles
A. Crespel, 38, Boulevard Carnot. 38, Lille
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32 pages stapled softcover. Patterns for filet embroidery, also suitable for cross-stitch and filet crochet. Scenes from Greek mythology, fables, the twelve astrological signs, some Egyptian motifs, and floral and geometrical borders, corners, squares.
Scans donated by Iva Innocenti, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
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LA056
Embroidery Filet Charted Cross-stitch Filet crochet II
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Modern Handcraft, Inc. (publ.)
The Workbasket Vol. 10 No. 8
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. Crochet: Lacy Dutch Bonnet, Pansy Doily. Sewing: Shoe Bag. Filet Crochet: Grape Buffet Set.
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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Charts Crochet Sewing Filet crochet ML
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Alphabete für Plattstich-Stickerei No. 43
No. 43
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Stapled softcover oblong, 16 pages with alphabets for whitework. All in all 14 different alphabets, not counting the additional lower-case letters and numbers. Some decorative motifs as well. No known author or publisher, except for "G&V. St." on the front cover.
Scans donated and edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
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Alphabet Embroidery whitework SW
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Felix, J. (publ.)
Modeles de Broderie
pour Robes
J. Felix, 18, Rue Thomas Vinçotte, Bruxelles
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Belgian origin, stapled softcover, 44 pages excluding covers. Selection of embroidery patterns around 1920s. Each page shows a pattern and a suggestion of how to use it on clothing. Page numbers are not consecutive and sometimes different patterns have the same number. Shown here in the sequence they appeared in the book.
Designs clearly influenced by Far Eastern and Egyptian styles.
Scans donated by Nettie Kraaij, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
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Embroidery NK
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Heinrich Kuehn (publ.)
Album No. 403
Heinrich Kuehn, Berlin
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Small leporello, 10 pages, one side two-colored embroidery patterns, mostly border and corner designs, the other side monochrome alphabet patterns and some small motifs.
Scans donated by Enzo Lima, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
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LA052
Alphabet Embroidery Cross-stitch Charted EL
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Modern Handcraft, Inc. (publ.)
The Workbasket Vol. 10 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, page 4 and 5 combined into one. Lovely New Spring Accessories In Crochet, Fair Isle Knitting Makes a Set of Panholders. The Spring accessories are a bow, a jabot, and a collar. The panholders are knitted with a flower pattern, and then crocheted around with a border and a hanging loop. Quilting: Primrose Patch quilting pattern.
Scans donated by Martha Ess, edited by Sytske Wijnsma. Published with kind permission of F+W Media, the current copyright holder.
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Crochet Knitting Quilting ML
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Adele Voshage
Das Spitzenklöppeln
Anleitung an vierunddreiszig Mustern die Klöppelarbeit gründlich zu erlernen.
Eugen Twietmeijer, Leipzig
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Although the text is in fraktur script and probably not an easy read (as well as German) the illustrations are fabulous, in clear black and white the lace pattern, and an engraving of the resulting lace. This edition is the third, indicating that the book must have sold well at the time. And with every new edition new patterns were added.
No separate pattern sheets, but with copy-paste-print that shouldn't be a big problem. Some nice illustrations of antique lacemaking tools as well.
Book donated by Antiquariaat Lont, scanned by Seya Wijnsma-Spek, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
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Lace BobbinLace ML
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