A heap of years ago when I was still in high school I was given loads of old clippings from my textile teacher Lena. I had to throw a lot of them out due to lack of space but I’ve saved the ones I like the most. Among those were these pictures of hats for [...]

I found this at the fleamarket for 2 kronor a few days ago. It’s a little pamphlet with home remedies for small troubles such as headaches, acne and freckles…(I will NEVER understand why people don’t like freckles) I’ve read about it before, and the orange cure below in particular!

Just tell me if you need cures [...]

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 [...]

If I would ever get very rich and afford to collect antique collectible books Bilderbüch für Kinder by Friedrich Justin Bertuch is totally on my wishlist. 12 volumes, 1185 pages, 6000 illustrations on fairytale creatures, medical imagery,skeletons, the collosus of Rhodes, native reference pictures, beautiful natural imagery… Some prints from it can apparantly be bought [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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