Antique Pattern Library Crochet, knitting, tatting, netting, embroidery, needle lace, beading and other needlework patterns.
www.antiquepatternlibrary.org
free patterns, free craft resources, free knitting patterns, free crochet patterns, free embroidery patterns, free lace patterns

Stumbled across this antique pattern library with some free crafting patterns from book binding to lace making.

  • Wren@lemmy.todayMEnglish
    4·
    12 days ago

    I’m falling in love with the vintage English in some of these books. The wax flowers book also mentions that she who makes her own wax sheets will be a better artist for it, which is 100% in the spirit of this community. (Forgive the unnecessary gendering of thr artist, the past was a different place.)

  • slippyferret@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    4·
    12 days ago

    What an incredible find! It’s like pixel art way before pixels were a thing. The amount of information is overwhelming, so maybe it would help to see a few examples from the database. Here’s a few interesting ones I picked out.