NEW PUBLICATIONS
N-YS008 N. Alexandre & Cie. – Album de Broderie Danubienne 54
Small leporello with cross-stitch patterns in three colors. One alphabet, several border designs, a corner design saying Eggs and another saying Chestnuts, and a dragon motif. Seven pages instead of the usual eight. Some errors in the charts have been corrected.
Donated, charted and edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
N-HW002 Kay’s Practical Embroiderer Second Set Templates
The templates belonging to the publication Kay’s Practical Embroiderer Second Set.
Scans donated by Hope Wright, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
N-HW001 Kay’s Practicial Embroiderer Second Set
4 page booklet showing the details of the second set of Kay’s Practicial Embroiderer templates. No actual examples of use are given, but with each diagram of a template there’s a suggestion in the description. Of the seven template pieces only three are described.
Scans donated by Hope Wright, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
I-SG009 Pattern advertisments from various sources
Twelve advertisements for patterns for crochet, filet crochet, curtains, braided rugs, embroidery and one whatnot made of wooden thread spools. Various designers and publishers; one actual cross-stitch pattern probably from a German pattern book or magazine.
Collected by Aphrodite Hofsommer, donated by her granddaughter Sally Glaser, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
I-SG008 Alice Brooks – Pattern advertisements
Collection of nearly 200 newspaper clippings of advertisements for doilies and other crochet and knitting patterns, mostly from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. All patterns are from Alice Brooks. Clippings date from 1936 to early forties. Not all are dated, but they are numbered in sequence. Some patterns have two different advertisements.
Collected by Aphrodite Hofsommer, donated by her granddaughter Sally Glaser, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
G-MH002 Hertz & Wegener – 9918 Twelve small motifs
Handpainted Berlin woolwork patterns on grey cardboard. Twelve mixed motifs, two dogs, an urn, a gravestone, two buildings, a trumpet, a flower, a horn, a bird, Mercury’s staff, a deer head. The color list is so long that although at the bottom of the page there were two areas provided for sample colors, the painters did not make use of it.
Scan donated by Marianne van der Heijden, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma
G-MH001 Rudolph Grafshoff – 14.122 Six small flower motifs
Small handpainted embroidery pattern on grey cardboard, with six lovely small flower motifs, individually 25 stitches wide and high.
Scan donated by Marianne van der Heijden, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
E-YS030 Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine – Patterns in Silk Embroidery Upon Java Canvas
Two similar patterns, one for a cigar-case, the other for a blotting-book cover, flower-stand and many purposes.The illustrations show also the Java Canvas, very similar to modern Aida cloth. The cigar case pattern has a glass bead in the center of each flower motif.
Scan donated by Seya Wijnsma-Spek, edited by Sytske Wijnsma
E-FW001 Calendar 1911
Four page calendar for the year 1911. Can be used in 2023, 2034, 2040, 2045. Four different art works from Dutch painters.
From the estate of Frans Wijnsma, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
C-YS008 Heinrich Kuehn – Moderne Stickvorlagen No. 844
Cross-stitch patterns in two colors. Six pages with flower and leaves border and corner designs, six pages with three alphabets. These alphabets are used in other HKB publications, although with other color combinations.
Scans donated, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
C-YS007 Häkel-Vorlagen
Ten pages of crochet patterns, total 48. No publisher or date, but “Made in Germany”. No text, but the illustrations are clear enough to work from. Occasionally a how-to illustration is included. Original printed in light blue on cream paper.
Scans donated and edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
C-PR005 Sajou – Album No. 321
Small Sajou leporello, eight pages with four alphabets in cross-stitch and backstitch. The first alphabet is intended to mark handkerchiefs, as the letters are small and inclined to fit in a corner. The second alphabet has a flower as decoration. The third alphabet is in Gothic style, and the fourth has a flowering branch as decoration.
Scans donated by Priscilla Cailly, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma
A-MH159 Journal des Demoiselles – Simple plaited pattern
Repeating design in nine colors, printed on cream paper. Plaited design as seen in many variations. This has black crosses as filling elements.
From the collection of Marleen van Horssen, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
A-MH155 Musée des Familles – Border pattern in green and blue
Border pattern in green and blue, with small floral motifs in the middle. Printed on cream paper.
From the collection of Marleen van Horssen, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
A-MH153 Magasin des Demoiselles – Two border patterns
Two border patterns, one wide, one very narrow, printed on cream paper. Possibly the two are intended to be used together and form a repeating allover pattern as seen on furniture covers.
From the collection of Marleen van Horssen, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
A-MH152 Journal des Demoiselles – Floral valance design
Printed pattern for a valance on cream paper. It contains two floral designs and can be indefinitely extended, making it suitable for a shelf border.
From the collection of Marleen van Horssen, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
A-MH052 Journal des Demoiselles – Two floral borders
Two narrow floral borders, printed side by side on cream paper. A cornflower border and one with fantasy flowers.
From the collection of Marleen van Horssen, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.
A-MH027 Magasin des Demoiselles – Quarter chair seat pattern
Quarter pattern of a chair seat with the characteristic rectangular cutout at the corner. Printed on cream cardboard, now much discolored.Abstract pattern with a central red and green star, and four red shields with yellow/black designs, framed in dark green..
From the collection of Marleen van Horssen, edited and charted by Sytske Wijnsma.