NEW PUBLICATIONS
http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/html/warm/G-TP010.htm
Another item from the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, a garland of roses in many colors. When charting this one, I discovered that PC Stitch can set the original image as background, and project the charted pattern over it. That speeds up charting a good deal. Of course, the resolution is limited (very) and if the pattern is irregular or slightly rotated it needs nudging up, down, left, right, but in general the charting goes much faster.
Expect to see more flower patterns. And I’m working on the Wolf Dupeyron Cross-Stitch album.
Thank you again, Victoria, for making it possible for us to chart the New Zealand collection of patterns! We are truly grateful and happy for your trust and helpfulness.
http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/html/warm/G-RB002.htm
This one is from the collection of Ruby Struiksma, a small advertising leaflet of the sewing thread factory of Goeggingen. Ruby contributed three of them to our catalog, this is the first of them. Thank you, Ruby!
We’ve had a very large image donation of alphabet embroidery designs from Goeggingen as well, from another donor, so we’ll add a page with these leaflets only.
I’ve tried to make this a full square pattern, but whichever way I rotate and mirror the pattern, it does not match. Still, it looks like it should be a complete square of leaves, with the roses in the middle. If I figure it out, I’ll update this page with the completed pattern.
http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/html/warm/G-RB004.htm
And this is the second leaflet, two border designs. Both these were from 1904, style and colors are similar.
FUNDRAISING
Click to support the Antique Pattern Library project to pay for such things as database and website development, web hosting costs, data entry, scanning equipment.
Scan donations count! They save us room (for the books) money (for the shipping price and customs duties and believe me, those can bite), and time for scanning. Of course, money is always welcome. And scans are equally welcome. In the meantime, you can also support us via Amazon Smile.
The limit of small donations is 700 EUR, a bit more than 700 USD. It may increase 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. 😉
Also, we are looking for people who can afford a one-time larger donation to support our goals for 2016, which will cost us some money.
It will help speed up our publication speed, and make more time available for the actual library work, which is sadly suffering. Judith and I spend more time than I like on bookkeeping and IRS compliance and stuff like that. Necessary, but it cuts into the time I have for the Library.
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. I’ll try to publish a flyer in black and white which can be printed and used as handout, for anybody wanting to do that. It would be more useful than a visiting card.
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.
The publications are free to download and to share, not to sell. Also the screendumps and later the text pages are published under the creative-commons licence – enjoy, but don’t sell. If ever you see a PDF for sale, especially with the Library creative-commons copyright notice or something that looks like it, we’d be glad to hear. Most we’ve heard of so far are legitimate sellers of their own copies, but every now and then there’s one that isn’t. In such a case, please email us privately with your concerns and give as much detail as possible. We don’t want peoples’ names aired about before we’ve had a chance to look the matter over, in order to protect the truly innocent.
Thanks to all the donors and volunteers, for all the help and new or improved material you provided.
Enjoy this new set.
Best wishes all,
Sytske