NEW PUBLICATIONS
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K-II006 Heinrich Kuehn 13900 – Courting couple in pink and brown
Single sheet, handpainted Berlin woolwork pattern of a courting couple, dressed in pink (she) and brown (he), sitting on a bench outside. The design is rectangular, probably meant for the embroidery to be framed.
Scan donated by Iva Innocenti, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
K-II005 Heinrich Kuehn 13899 – Courting couple in purple and blue
Single sheet, handpainted Berlin woolwork pattern of a courting couple, dressed in blue (she) and purple (he), sitting on a grassy verge outside. The design is rectangular, probably meant for the embroidery to be framed.
Scan donated by Iva Innocenti, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
K-II003 17037 – Girl herding a cow
Single sheet, handpainted Berlin woolwork pattern. A girl in a red dress herding a grey cow. No background. Grid is 130×100, design 100×80.
Scan donated by Iva Innocenti, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
I-EL002 Needlecraft 108 – Mountmellick Embroidery
16 pages, including covers. Price 2D. No. 108, First Series. Page 3 to 7 show stitches, 8 to 12 individual motifs, 12 to 14 5 projects. Last item is a special type of knitted fringe used with Mountmellick embroidery.
Donated by Enzo Lima, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
H-ML091 The Workbasket Vol. 9 No. 1
8 pages, 4 and 5 combined to one. Crochet: crocheted rugs. Quilting: Star of Victory quilt. Knitting: Skating set (cap and mittens).
Scans donated by M. Leigh Martin, edited by Sytske Wijnsma. Published with kind permission of F+W Media, the current copyright holder.
G-KR009 Coats & Clark’s 120 – Tablecloths and bedspreads
36 pages, bedspreads and tablecloths, mostly crocheted, some knitted. Most are constructed of small squares, one is filet crochet.
Scans donated by Kathryn Roloff, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
F-IS077 Bruno Borner 17233 – Rose swag purse
Handpainted Berlin woolwork pattern for a purse, with rose swags at the top and a rounded-off bottom.
Scans donated by Jackie Isler, from the collection of her grandmother Helen Balmat Gorman.