Stumbled across this antique pattern library with some free crafting patterns from book binding to lace making.
Antique Pattern Library
https://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/
https://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/
Stumbled across this antique pattern library with some free crafting patterns from book binding to lace making.
2 Comments
slippyferret@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 167d
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.
Wren@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 167d
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.)