Reminder that almost any truly vintage and antique knit or crochet pattern can be found FREE on many sites including:
Free Vintage Crochet has over 2,000 vintage crochet patterns which have passed into the public domain. Each pattern has been hand-restored a
A historic archive of rare crochet patterns. Direct from your grandma’s secret vault. For your loved ones FOR BABIES Bibs Blankets Bonnets B
Free patterns, free craft books, free resources, free makers library, free knitting patterns, free crochet patterns, free embroidery pattern
A Library of FREE Vintage Knitting & Sewing Patterns
Free Vintage Knitting has over 1,000 vintage knit patterns which have passed into the public domain. Each pattern has been hand-restored and
Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.
On both internet archive and project gutenburg it helps to know what book or magizine you are looking for but you can still do a regular vague key word search and find something.
Even your local library and ravelry might have antique pattern books on file! On ravelry you will have to exclude all purchasable patterns instead of just looking for free for some reason, then get past the first page or two of patterns people thought "looked antique" but once you get to the black and white photos you are golden!
So please don't buy an etsy shop's antique pattern when there is really no reason to, and if you are one of those selling these patterns, know I am judging you big time!
