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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
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Modern Handcraft Inc. (publ.)
The Workbasket Vol. 11 No. 12- September 1946
Home and Needlecraft for Pleasure and Profit
Modern Handcraft Inc., Kansas City, MO
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8 pages. Crochet: luncheon set, child's muff and beanie, collar, dainty daisy motif. Tatting: hexagon tatted doily. Knitting: knitted scarf.
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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MC024
Crochet Knitting Tatting SD
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Kuehn, Heinrich
Two trees and a rose bush
13682
Heinrich Kuehn, Berlin.
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Handpainted Berlin woolwork pattern on cream cardboard. Shows two potted evergreen trees with red fruit or flowers, a rose bush between them, and a potted plant with blue flowers above the rose bush. Can be extended to a border by copying the middle piece.
Scans donated by Jackie Isler, from the collection of her grandmother Helen Balmat Gorman, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
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MC023
Embroidery Charted BerlinWork Tapestry Cross-stitch IS
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Low, Frances H.
Queen Victoria's Dolls
1894, London, George Newnes, Limited. 8, 9, 10, 11 Southampton Street
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The collection of dolls that Queen Victoria played with and dressed when she was a child, early 1800s. Theatrical personages and ladies of the Court were represented. There were 132 dolls, about half of them are shown. here. Very, very rare book.
Scans donated and edited by Hope Wright.
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MC022
Dolls HW
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Eight traditional German maxims
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Eight single sheets, probably from one booklet, printed in red and green on a green grid. Each has a traditional maxim, about food (give us today our daily bread, clean kitchen and good wine cellar means a tasty meal, a happy face is the best dish, drink and eat and do not forget God), about the clean linens (grown in sun and wind and bleached on green grass it lies now in the locker as pride for the German housewife), about the house (sweet home is happiness only), about patience (do not hurry, good things will wait), and about work (work is an ornament to people - blessing is the reward of effort). Some damage to the bottom of a few patterns, but missing parts have been reconstructed.
Image donated by ebay seller Doris Klapp, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
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MC021
Embroidery Charted Cross-stitch DK
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Wicht, Carl F.W. (publ.)
Slipper top
125640277730 Antique Berlin Hand Painted WoolWork Pattern F.W. Wicht 7.25 x 4 78
Berlin, Carl F.W. Wicht
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Handpainted Berlin woolwork pattern on light grey cardboard. Slipper top with leaves in autumn colors and red stalks on a black background. Pattern looks symmetrical, but isn't.
Image donated by ebay seller tokisantiques, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
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MC020
Embroidery Charted Slipper Beading BerlinWork Cross-stitch Tapestry TA
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