2016-09-23 Four new publications uploaded

NEW PUBLICATIONS on http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/html/warm/news.htm

 

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http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/html/warm/G-GH003.htm

Matching Sets in Crochet, Clark’s O.N.T. Book no. 281. The scans were donated by Glenda Hicks, and edited by Yvonne DeBandi. Yvonne is a graphical designer (and singer) and we could pay her for her services thanks to the donations that came in up to now. Glenda donated three books and Yvonne is working on them, so expect more next week! Thank you, Glenda!

 

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http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/html/warm/F-RZ004.htm

We may all remember Raezza, the ebay seller who donated the pattern with those lovely butterflies! Well, there were more in the pipeline and I’ve taken this week to puzzle out the chart to one of them, a lovely bouquet of flowers, fading from deep purple at the bottom to white at the top. I don’t know the type of flower – if they were orange, I’d say it was the orange trumpet climber, planted by my neighbour and currently overrunning my balcony. Any botanical minds who can help us out here, drop me a note?

The pattern was published by Hertz & Wegener #13225 so decidedly not one of the earlier ones. And the paint has worn away on much of the top part of the flowers, so I’ve had to guess a lot about colors there. Usually if the color is worn, the symbols beneath are visible; not so here. If ever any of you sees this same pattern in a higher resolution, let me know?

You might notice that the pdf only contains one listing image, and then the color and symbol chart and the legend. I’m doing that to keep the size down, and people who want to embroider the pattern really only need the chart. But I like to give the provenance of the design as well (if I have permission). And thank you, Raezza! I have you on my list of favorites 😉

 

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http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/html/warm/G-AA002.htm

This pattern, Hertz & Wegener 3277  is currently offered on ebay by amgarchive, who sold a whole slew of lovely Berlin woolwork and last week gave me permission to publish the patterns of the lot! This one goes first because it’s still available. Many of the others have been charted already and will appear soon (promises, promises – but they have been charted already). Thank you, amgarchive! All our embroiderers appreciate your generosity! The pattern shows a sort-of 3D wave effect by using darker and lighter shades of one color. That was very popular for a while (haven’t pinned down an exact period for that yet) and I’ve seen it in many other patterns.

 

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http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/html/warm/G-TP009.htm

The Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom, no less. Dieu et mon droit, Honi soit qui mal y pense, a harp, a red lion, two times three small lions, and a lion and unicorn – and I’m ashamed to say that still I had to look this one up.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_coat_of_arms_of_the_United_Kingdom mentioned one interesting addition: this is the version  that was in use before the accession of Queen Victoria, because the arms of Hanover are still in the middle. With the crown, which was in use from 1818 – so the coat of arms is from 1818-1836. Of course the pattern can be of a far later date.

It’s from the collection of the Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, and it was done before the other flower bouquets and such because it was a challenge. It took longer than usual, but then it’s larger than usual too, so that’ll be my excuse. Thank you, Victoria (no, not the Queen, but the Rights Advisor for the museum collection)!

 

Fundraising now! Goal: 6000 USD!

 

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(Sorry for the bad resolution. Go to http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/html/warm/fund2016.htm for a better version.)
 

20 September : 606 USD donated! (And since then, at least 30 USD more!)

Donate now to support the Antique Pattern Library project to pay for such things as database and website development, web hosting costs, data entry, scanning equipment, and help us meet the public funding ratio, which allows us to keep our nonprofit status, making your donations tax-deductible, depending on where you live and on the local tax laws and tax treaties.

Scan donations count too! They save us room (for the books) money (for the shipping price and customs duties), and time (for scanning).And if you are an Amazon customer, you can also support us via Amazon Smile. If you click on the Amazon link before you start shopping, Amazon will set aside a little bit from their profit on what you spend and give that to us.

 

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The limit of small donations is 1500 USD, actually a little bit more but that’s a nice round number. It increases if we get more small donations. That’s the limit to what you can donate per year and still have it count towards the small donations. It’s recalculated every year. If you donate more, the IRS puts your donations on the other side of the public funding ratio. So, if you were planning to donate just above the limit, give some to another organization, buy a cup of coffee and donate just the limit amount.

On the other hand, we are looking for people who can afford a one-time larger donation to support our goals for the coming year, which will cost us some money.It will help speed up our publication rate, and make more time available for the actual library work, which is sadly suffering, because we as Board members have to spend more time than we like on bookkeeping and IRS compliance and stuff like that. Necessary, but it cuts into the time we have for the Library. Your donations will help us hire help for the elementary tasks and for editing.

 

If you can’t afford to give anything, which also happens in these difficult times, introducing the Library to people who don’t know of it yet, is very useful, since it broadens our user base and therefore our donor base.

 

Anything you donate for the Library, goes to the Library. The donations of the larger donors are far more than enough to cover our overhead, so what you give, goes straight to Library improvement. To give you an idea of what your donation would do: USD 10 pays for our hosting costs for a month (at the moment) or an hour of administrative assistance. USD 40 pays for an hour of graphical editing. USD 50 allows us to take one of our RESERVE publications and release it for publication. USD 100 pays for 1TB backup for the scans and edited files. (Currently we have 5 TB data.) Larger donations in the past have paid for fast A3 scanners, website help, and hours of editing, as well as a start with putting our Library records online in a way that they will show up in professional library searches.

 

FYI, the books we buy are paid out of our private purses, which are not exceedingly well-filled but currently still up to that task.

 

Thank you!!!

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