2018-05-30 Fourteen new publications: Embroidery, cross-stitch, Workbaskets

NEW PUBLICATIONS

Go to http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org to see the new publications.

F-TC012 5730 Jesus – Heinrich Kuehn, Berlin
Religious subject; Jesus in his traditional red clothes with a blue mantle, but without halo. Part of a series of embroideries of saints.
Image donated by ebay seller tinaldw. I had hoped to have this finished before Easter, but alas, life interfered. And really, I did not want to shelve this one until next Easter!

I-WM002 Hartshorne, Emily – Needlework Designs from Old Examples
Designs for Church Embroidery and Crewel Work. From Old Examples. Collected and Arranged by Emily Sophia Hartshorne. Eighteen Plates, containing upwards of Sixty Patterns. “In the hands of the skilful shall the work be approved”
Griffith & Farran, London. E.P. Dutton & Co., New York. 1880
Eighteen A2 plates with outlined embroidery patterns from various backgrounds. Ten plates have been edited, eight will follow later.
Book transferred to Rijksmuseum Research Library, 2018-05-25. Afterwards I found out that some scans might miss little pieces of letters or edges of motifs. But, with skilful and patient cut-and-paste-and-delete-and-try-again I’m sure we’ll get the remaining ones properly restored.

 

H-RM007 Hertz & Wegener 752

Five small animal motifs

Single sheet with five small animal motifs: two pigeons, a dog, a bird, a goat and a deer.
Pattern from the collection of the Rijksmuseum Research Library. They actually have a folder with “various embroidery patterns” – such a treasure, when opened! Quite a number of leaves with whitework embroidery patterns, and a small collection of cross-stitch patterns we’ve never seen before – and Franciska and I have seen quite a lot! This is one of the cross-stitch patterns.

H-RM031 Six square designs – F.I. Weygand – 17
Large pattern sheet with six more-or-less square embroidery designs, maybe for handkerchiefs or table linen. Scanned by Franciska Ruessink. This is one of those whitework embroidery leaves.

C-YS003 Stickerei-Muster

While rooting through my old scans, searching for non-cross-stitch embroidery patterns, I found these, and since charting them was only a little work, they get published now rather than later.

8 pages of cross-stitch patterns. Title in French and Russian. No date, probably around 1900.

C-YS005 Stickerei-Vorlage-Stempel

45 page catalog of embroidery stamps; probably around 1900. On page 41/42 a monogram has been cut out. The first pages show what the embroidery stamps would look like and how they would be used. Edges, initials, monograms, motifs. Of course it’s only examples, but with suitable enlargement they would be useful for embroidery other than cross-stitch.

 

H-ML006 to H-ML013 – Workbaskets 1936

These eight conclude the volume 1 of the Workbaskets. Next round, volume 2!

 

FUNDRAISING

There’s been a quite big donation the past weeks, and some smaller ones from faithful donors. Thank you!

We keep asking for donations, in order for the project to survive and flourish. Especially for those Workbaskets! If you value our work, and you can afford it, we are grateful for every dollar. And I mean it: those 1 dollar donations are as welcome as the larger ones. Many grains of sand a mountain will make!

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.

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The limit of small donations is yet to be determined, we will start at USD 500. 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 also our donor base.

Anything you donate for the Library, goes to the Library. If you don’t mind it going to cover our overhead, mark your donation to NMA General. 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 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.

Thank you all, and enjoy the new and old treasures!

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