Antique Pattern Library is an ongoing project to scan antique craft and design books that are in the public domain and make them available on the internet, for free. http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org

Antique Pattern Library is a project of New Media Arts, Inc., www.newmediaarts.org, a nonprofit corporation, tax exempt under IRS Sec. 501(c)(3); EIN 27-2500171. Donations to New Media Arts, Inc., are gratefully accepted and may be tax deductible, depending on your tax jurisdiction and your tax circumstances. If you donate at the library website, your donation will be tagged as a library donation.

We publish scans of books on all kinds of crafts - needlework, knitting, embroidery, crochet, lace making, weaving, basketry, and we are starting to expand into woodworking, mechanics, gardening, cooking and other craft books,.

If you would like to donate book scans to the library, please read the Guidelines, then contact Judith Adele at j.adele [at] newmediaarts.org.

The purpose of this Yahoo forum is to provide a place for volunteers and donors to contact library organizers, and to send out newsletters when we add new titles. And to talk about crafts.

The scans are in the form of PDF files – to download them, click on the PDF icons to the left of the catalog entry at the website listed above. There are instructions at the top of the catalog page - you may get false error messages if you are using an incompatible pdf reader, or one that hasn't been updated.