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Lilla fröken Vår i ny, rolig hatt

lilykarin — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:10:56 +0000

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 which Femina were selling patterns. I so wish I had the patterns aswell, if so I would be making “spring hats” right now!

Below they are mentioning that the little heart on the forest green hat might be a bit daring… förresten vill jag väldigt gärna vara fräsch och sommarprillig!

I want the green and white gingham one below!

Fru Prostinnans Huskurer

lilykarin — Sun, 09 May 2010 17:08:25 +0000

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 for anything and I’ll write them out for ya! But if you’re “weak in general”, have a bad stomach and so on then you should eat one orange the first day, two the second and so on, up to 25 oranges on the 25th day. Then you start counting down again until you on the 50th day are back to one orange.. this should be done three times with three weeks inbetween the times. Then you will hate oranges and have a good stomach.

Crochet a 30s dress!

lilykarin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:49:11 +0000

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.

(Click to enlarge)

Bilderbüch für Kinder

lilykarin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:49:25 +0000

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 here.

Weldon’s Ladies’ Journal November 1926

lilykarin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:43:32 +0000

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

More medical scans (Tack pappa!)

lilykarin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:03:02 +0000

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!

Foldable 1918 medical doll

lilykarin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:41:36 +0000

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.

More from Människokroppen by John af Klercker

lilykarin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:49:17 +0000

Illustration of Gout

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

Medical Illustrations

lilykarin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:10:32 +0000

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!

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lilykarin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:30:57 +0000

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

More here!