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#2112 VIKKI VINTAGE CROCHET PATTERN

A handpainted pattern with four motifs, a bow and quiver, a cross with lilies, a torch with roses, and an anchor with ivy.

Album describing embroidery patterns for clothes as well as diagrams showing the sewing pattern for these clothes. Identical to the Wolf Dupeyron album of the same title. Handpainted embroidery pattern showing a black chantilly lace ribbon with four flowers. Flowers made of yarn. Ring around the Star. Crochet and sewing, match holders in flower shapes.

Scans donated by M. Leigh Martin, edited by Sytske Wijnsma. From the earlier, much shorter Complete Course of Dressmaking. Circular skirt, gored skirt, skirt with yoke. Drawings show the layout of pattern pieces and some details of sewing. Single sheet with ten more or less round motifs with leaves, flowers, and berries, and a double row of an edge design.

Bonnet looks like a baby bonnet. Ladies on tea towels.

Wooden lawn and garden ornaments. A repeating pattern with green and cream diamonds, yellow details and dark brown backstitches, from an old table runner. Dated 15 May A repeating pattern with pink flowers on a white background. Handpainted, the paint worn through in spots. Titled Pracovna v Praze, dated December The title gets translated as "Office in Prague".

A single sheet, lithographed, with four heraldic motifs. One of the smaller Cartier Bresson albums, this one about Frivolite. A basic introduction and then a number of frivolite patterns described and photographed. There are no schematic drawings of the items. Nine handpainted pattern sheets. Fairly abstract patterns, for crochet, it says.

A tea cosy, and several round and square designs, possibly for doilies or rugs. The instructions say something like one single crochet, one chain crochet. Gittertull is a kind of coarse tulle, made with partly tinsel threads. Stapled oblong collection of 9 sheets with embroidery patterns, one a fold-out. Corners, edges, four powdering patterns. Suitable for wool- and silk embroidery in all kinds of needlework. Scans donated by Willem Kraaij, edited by Sytske Wijnsma. Transferred to Rijksmuseum, Dreissig tafeln mit Sechshundert Monogrammen. The design on the cover of the previous issue.

Star and Flower bedspread.

A description of a march for sixteen children in a rose costume. The costume is described as well. The advertisements mention many more such publications. Single leaf torn from an issue of Petersons Magazine. Design for a slipper, split in a toe and a band around the heel. Corner pattern with pink flowers.

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Probably from a leporello published by Heinrich Kuehn, Berlin. Text at the bottom Deponirt. The alphabets were originally monochrome. From the collection of Folva Miller, donated by her grandson Charles Kite. Charted by Sytske Wijnsma.

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A corner design with topiary urns and a rose bowl, connected with a rose guirlande and blue ribbons. Probably from one of the embroidery albums of Heinrich Kuehn, Berlin. All illustrations as appeared in the Household Edition of around For use in costume research. From the collection of Frans Wijnsma. First book in a series of weaving with small appliances. How to make a weaving board and a tapestry frame, winding, warping, brocading and tapestry weaving. Scans donated by Tamara Tiekstra, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.

Transferred to the Rijksmuseum Research Library, Glove with lace cuffs, cap, two purse designs. Starched Table Mat Set, Quilting: Basket of Daisies, Fabric Flowers: Romper, straight-hanging dress, guimpe dress, blouse with buttoned-on skirt, middy and pleated skirt, a party dress, petticoat, drawers, sleeping drawers, nightgown.


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Full sized charted tapestry embroidery pattern for a shoe, with applied color strips to indicate thread color. One page, front and back, from an old herbal , concerning madder, a plant from which the roots were used to make a red dye. A folder with ten pattern sheets for dolls' clothes. The pattern pieces are spread over the different sheets. This folder probably belongs with C-YS, Die Fleissige Puppenschneiderin, a German-language book which probably contains the descriptions of the individual costumes. Scans donated by Seya Wijnsma, edited by Sytske Wijnsma. Transferred to Rijksmuseum Research Library, Small stapled softcover booklet with 8 pages, one side printed other side blank, with 32 crochet patterns illustrated.

No instructions are given. Most are edge designs. Medium sized brown leporello, 6 pages, one side handpainted patterns other side blank. Floral and abstract corner designs, and a heraldic repeating pattern. Suitable for cross-stitch, beadwork, tapisserie. A handpainted pattern, x80, with an alphabet in nine colors. The impression is that it's decorated with flowers, but the size is quite small and the flowers are more suggested than detailed. The second number in a series dealing with primitive and oriental designs. A simple Berlin woolwork purse, sewn around with cord and decorated with two gold metal tassels.

A single sheet, probably taken from a booklet, with a corner design. The flowers are pink carnations, surrounded by blue swirls. Fines et Grosses Dentelles. Page 16 and 17 combined in one image. Applications of lace to curtains, tablecloths, dress, nightwear, lingerie, pillows. Embroidery pattern showing chickens outside, with little chicks and three grown birds. Second book in the series of weaving with small appliances.

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An explanation of tablet weaving for beginners; how to set up a tablet warp, loom for tablet weaving, designing patterns, and a number of illustrated examples. Abstract pattern in brown, green, and blue with yellow highlights and a white outline. Suitable for tapisserie and cross-stitch. Album with patterns for cross-stitch embroidery, beading, and similar techniques. Small leporello with six outdoor scenes, windmills, ships, houses, canals, all in shades of blue.

Vintage Granny Square Christmas Stocking - Crochet Pattern

The windmills were designed by someone who actually saw them. Lovely silk pouch, light blue background fabric, over which bobbin lace and silk ribbons have been woven. Quilted on the inside. The silk ribbons are nearly worn through, showing some construction detail.

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