FUNDRAISING NOW! – Goal: 6000 USD – So far 4007.02 –
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 yet to be determined, we will start at USD 1000. 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.
The user forum has been transferred to groups.io!
Please do not post messages on Yahoo anymore!
They won’t be transferred to the new location and eventually they’ll disappear – a pity, when there’s useful information in them.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Go to https://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org to see the new publications.
I-MV002 G.E. Falbe – Embroidered Book Cover – 79
Single sheet, cream paper. Pattern intended for a book cover, front and back different motifs in identical frame, and a narrow strip for the back of the book. Choice of background color was left to the embroideress.
Scan donated by Mark van der Voort, charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
Embroidered book cover; Berlin Woolwork; Falbe; charted design; embroidery; cross-stitch; beading
H-ML081 The Workbasket Vol. 8 No. 3
8 pages, page 4 and 5 combined to one. Stocking dolls, quilting: Poinsettia Quilt, toy Donkey, crochet: Crocheted Slippers.
Scans donated by M. Leigh Martin, edited by Sytske Wijnsma. Published with kind permission of F+W Media, the current copyright holder.
E-CO001 1876 Jemima Stuart sampler
Twelve photos of a sampler, as yet uncharted. Dated 1876. Two sets of initals in a frame, JSJB and JJS. Name Jemima Jeannie Stuart, Mill of Crannah, Marnoch July 26th 1876. Other initials CB MB CB MA. A larger and smaller uppercase alphabet and small lowTwelve photos of a sampler, as yet uncharted. Dated 1876. Two sets of initals in a frame, JSJB and JJS. Name Jemima Jeannie Stuart, Mill of Crannah, Marnoch July 26th 1876. Other initials CB MB CB MA. A larger and smaller alphabet and various small motifs.
Photos reproduced by permission of ebay seller cockleheart.
E-CS001 Paper theaters, decors and dolls.
A collection of paper cutouts to be used for theatres in shoeboxes and displays. Complete with coulisses and little paper actors. End 19th century. A truly phenomenal collection.
Permission to publish images donated by ebay seller chaos!sternchen, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.