I collect old crochet and knitting magazines 1900's-1930's I love them, they combine knit, crochet, tatting, lace & embroidery, mixing and matching techniques with beautiful results. If they could make a cover for something or decorate an item they did, my favourite is the candle shades beautiful laces but, I wonder how many went up in flames eeekk!. The magazines have become harder to get hold of in the last few years, plus the price for many is getting to high (for my income anyway).
I have been trying to find out something about these wonderful designers for many years with little luck, Emma Farnes (love her designs), Marie Antoinette Hees, Sophie T. Lacroix, Anna Valeire their work appears in some of the Novelty Art Studios magazines also. If anyone knows of any details about these designers, websites etc. please let me know.
Here are three links. You may have them already. The last one is all free antique patterns and each one is an entire book.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.antiquecrochetpatterns.com/
http://www.crochettreasures.com/freepatterns/archives.htm
http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/completelist.htm
This is mywindowtoyours from the swap-bot blog swap. I just wanted to let you know that I'm going to follow your blog.
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