I have plenty of really old patterns that I thought I’d share with you on the blog for free because I want to keep the old pattern books but I know I won’t make the things in a long time, if ever, and that made me feel a bit greedy! I might translate them into english if someone asks for it specifically but for now I’ll leave them in the language they were from the beginning. I don’t know all the english crocheting terms and whatnot so that’s why I won’t translate them unless someone really wants me to.
Here’s a magically pretty 20s-30s dress that is supposed to be crocheted in white with black details, though I think it’d look lovely in for example powder blue & creme instead.

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I got an issue of a 20s fashion magazine as a christmas gift from my parents and here are the scans!

I want the red dress!

Excessive pleating rules! The dress to the far right of the page is awesome.

On this page below I want everything! I think I’ll try to sew an inspired one some day.

On this page i especially like how the illustrator made all their waist hemlines at the same height of the paper.

But most of all I crave the leg thingies I don’t know the enlish word for of “the Drummer”!!! Will make.

All the scans are here if you want to download & use for something.
<3
Karin

I was in Jönköping this weekend and my dad gave me two medical books from 1889, Den Nya Naturläkemetoden I and II. Here are the illustrations that weren’t attached any more and hence very easy to scan. I will scan so much more! They are completely filled with wonderfulness!

Birth.

The Female Genitalia (Notice anything missing?)

How the child can be positioned

Diseases of the Eye

And another doll! This one is a bit larger and more prudeish than the 20s one. The stomach opens and shows the inside. It has two more parts but they are stuck to the inside of the book and as I said I’ll scan the attached ones another day. There was also a big fold sheet of different body parts and stuff. Dad rules for giving it away! He also had the most amusing book ever, a 19th century book on sex. It had, among other lovely things, a story on a 13 year old boy who masturbated “too much” and that the doctor who was also the writer of the book had prescribed some kind of penis-holder that would keep him from ever touching it. The boy died shortly after “from circumstances of his masturbation addiction” or something like that. On to the doll!

A little bit more from my collections! This is a foldable chart over the female body from the book Praktisk Läkarebok för Svenska Hem from 1918, one of the most beautiful books I own. It has more parts but I got tired of puzzling it together in photoshop  after a while, it’s larger than my scanner is.

Illustration of Gout

Chart over nutrition in food. Blue is fat, pink is protein, brown is alcohol, green is cellulose and white is water.

I have been completely fascinated with medical books since I was little and used to read my parents dictionary to look at different types of skin conditions… Here are some illustratiosn from the book Människokroppen (The Human Body) published in 1901 and written by John af Klercker. Will scan more some day!

I’ve been collecting antique photos since I was 15. These, I found yesterday.

More here!

I found lots of vintage/antique post cards at a fleamarket today, I’ve scanned them and put them in a flickr album (here) and if anyone wants to use them for anything it’s okay! They’re mainly from 1910-1920, one is from the year 1900 (110 years old!) and a few are from the 30s-40s too. I’ll probably sell them some day… maybe.

My personal favourite is this one:

And the zebra!