Pattern Library

[Shannon Wolf]

So I was online trying to find a sample of crochet sampler book from the period, when I stumbled onto this website. I think I found a mini treasure trove. Has anyone else used it?http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/html/warm/date.htm#PERIOD_185

 

[JAGwinn]

Nice find!

 

[AndyHall]

Oh, my -- a member for only a day, and already contributing constructively to the group. What will CWT come to, if this sort of behavior goes on unchecked?

 

[FarawayFriend]

Wonderful patterns!! At first I thought this was just a bibliography, but if you hit "Detail page" you will get the pattern itself. Great find. Not only for crocheting but also for embroidering, which I love to do also.
Thanks so much!!

 

[MaryDee]

Looks interesting--these appear to be embroidery, tapestry, or crochet patterns, not clothing patterns. While 1840-1860 embroidery, crochet, etc. patterns would have been used during the CW (people would get older patterns from friends and relatives), for living history/reenactment purposes, be careful not to use patterns that appeared after the time you're portraying!

 

[Shannon Wolf]

Looks interesting--these appear to be embroidery, tapestry, or crochet patterns, not clothing patterns. While 1840-1860 embroidery, crochet, etc. patterns would have been used during the CW (people would get older patterns from friends and relatives), for living history/reenactment purposes, be careful not to use patterns that appeared after the time you're portraying!

I do a lot of a research. I work in a call center and sometimes it's slow so I crochet and read. LOL

 

[donna]

Great find and welcome to the forum.

 

[Anna Elizabeth Henry]

Excellent find and welcome to the Forum!

@LoriAnn is big into yarn related activities I'm sure she'll enjoy the repository of vintage crochet patterns you found, too!

 

[LoriAnn]

I've run into this site as well, though I haven't used anything yet. What a great resource! I could see using this to embroider my initials on something.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

That's crazy good, thank you! And it's funny, so many look like you could have picked them up inside the cover of Godey's yet there's only one, and that a print from there. That means we're missing a huge amount of amazing sources! ( I smell a thread )

We'll be extremely spoiled having another needle whiz here- thanks for bring this link and hope we'll see a lot of you and your skills. Welcome to the forum!

 

[LoyaltyOfDogs]

This is wonderful, @Shannon Wolf! I think I may have some items to donate from my small collection of 1930s and 1940s knitting patterns.

 

[FarawayFriend]

I've run into this site as well, though I haven't used anything yet. What a great resource! I could see using this to embroider my initials on something.

When I rented my first apartment I made my doorplate that way. We here don't have numbers on our apartment doors, but our names and I was so proud to be able to put a doorplate at the door of my apartment that I kept that embroidered doorplate to this day.

 

[LoriAnn]

When I rented my first apartment I made my doorplate that way. We here don't have numbers on our apartment doors, but our names and I was so proud to be able to put a doorplate at the door of my apartment that I kept that embroidered doorplate to this day.
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WOW! This is beautiful!

Any time you want to share more of your work, please feel free. I find it so inspiring.

 

[FarawayFriend]

WOW! This is beautiful!

Any time you want to share more of your work, please feel free. I find it so inspiring.

Thank you so much LoriAnn! I might do that, I like Danish embroidery and have done a series of trees, that are pretty nice. Lately it has become a bit difficult to do, I defintely need glasses now. Old age!!!

 

[Shannon Wolf]

I've run into this site as well, though I haven't used anything yet. What a great resource! I could see using this to embroider my initials on something.

I have some issues with my hands so fine needle work tends to escape me. Crochet though I could do blind in a Hurricane as long as I know the stitches.

 

[LoriAnn]

Lately it has become a bit difficult to do, I defintely need glasses now.

You and me both. My eyes have started getting wonky enough to the point where I'm reaching for reading glasses.

I have some issues with my hands so fine needle work tends to escape me. Crochet though I could do blind in a Hurricane as long as I know the stitches.

I have a red and white striped crochet scarf that I made for Christmas one year, just because I was in the mood for the whole red and white thing. Simplest project too ~ straight up double crochet. I joke that I could have made it drunk and in the dark.

Out of all the lovely accessories I've made, including complicated lace shawls, my crochet Christmas scarf is the one that gets the most compliments.

The leaf lace shawl ~ nothing. The butterfly lace ~ nada. The lace and cables ~ zip.

The Christmas scarf ~ "YAY! I love your candy cane scarf!!!! So cute!!!" Score one for crochet.

 

[Shannon Wolf]

I normally do coasters at work between calls because the whole pattern is just doubling. You chain 5, slip stitch them together, 10 single crochet in the ring, slip stitch, chain 2, then 2 double crochet in each stitch, slip stitch, chain 2 and repeat. Makes the perfect coaster. You can switch from double crochet to a shell stitch and it makes a flower shaped coaster.

 

[Shannon Wolf]

I figured ya'll would enjoy these sites as well. These are some of the digital collections I have stumbled on that have lots to explore and hunt through if you have a mind too. I am lucky enough to live in a city with a decent Library with a bent towards Maps and Florida History (I call it the secret stash. You can't leave the library with the books and they hold your ID hostage until you return them), and have a friend who is a UNF alumni and willing to let me drag him to the Library there when I have a bent to learn something new. Sometimes though you need something you just can't find locally or need examples to work off of.

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Human Ecology Collection
https://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/HumanEcol/

The Victoria & Albert Museum UK
https://www.vam.ac.uk/

The Fashion Museum Bath UK
https://www.fashionmuseum.co.uk/

If ya'll would like I could keep hunting for more sources and maybe put together a digital collections thread for research?

 

[LoriAnn]

I normally do coasters at work between calls because the whole pattern is just doubling.

I've made a few as well, and one big one for my teapot. Those come in handy. I've not done a flower shaped one though ~ that sounds pretty!

My zen project is knitting socks. I've made so many, I've got the technique down to where I can stop and start at any point. Sometimes I bring my sock project to work, and people are like, "What are you doing? Is that a...sock?!" I tell them, "This keeps me out of trouble."

I figured ya'll would enjoy these sites as well.

Oh, thank you for posting these!

If ya'll would like I could keep hunting for more sources and maybe put together a digital collections thread for research?

That sounds like a great idea. I have a link to some Godey's publications @FarawayFriend found that I have really enjoyed paging through.

Also, if anyone would like to consolidate period patterns, I can dig up my CW sock knitting info.

 

[FarawayFriend]

That sounds like a great idea. I have a link to some Godey's publications @FarawayFriend found that I have really enjoyed paging through.

Me?
Oh my, seems my memory leaves me completely these days ... glad I could be of some help anyway ...