FUNDRAISING NOW! – Goal: 6000 USD – So far 4232.27 –
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).
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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.
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NEW PUBLICATIONS
Go to https://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org to see the new publications.
J-RM003 Livre d’Or de la Broderie
Large softcover, monochrome whitework embroidery patterns. Mostly alphabets and monograms, religious motifs, some openwork embroidery as well.
Scans provided by Rijksmuseum, edited by Judith Adele.
G-KR008 Star 208: You Asked For These
36 pages including cover. Softcover. Crochet: Crocheted suit, pansy doily, cathedral window motif, christmas daisies (winding yarn) and stars, Jack Frost, Santa Clause, snowflake, afghan, Harlequin Coat, Afghan Coat, Maple Leaf luncheon set, snow man, Puritan Bedspread, various crocheted edgings. Tatting: tatted edgings. Knitting: knitted edgings. More crochet and winding yarn: Angel, Christmas bells.
Donated by Kathryn Roloff, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
F-IS033 Vereinigte Stickmuster Verlag 7077 – Fruit motifs
Four handpainted round fruitmotifs on cream paper. Largest is 50 stitches across, smallest 36. Motifs rearranged on chart.
Scans donated by Jackie Isler, from the collection of her grandmother Helen Balmat Gorman, charted by Sytske Wijnsma.