For now the carded buttons are collected together by color in shoe boxes. The patterns are all just bagged or boxed and moved to another room, awaiting genuine sorting and filing.
I no longer have my web site up , but I had pictures of my DGD in the process of making several items. She loves sewing. YAY! I hope to get my web site back up in the next couple of weeks.
Oh, goodie, I can live vicariously through your site. I was thinking of your patterns. Maybe you could sell some of them online. I have some Issey Miyake patterns which are like gold, judging from the prices people ask. Cea
Very few of my patterns are uncut, so I doubt they are sellable. My collection goes back to my own starting in the
50s, my mother's from the 20s, 30s and 40s and my DMIL's ditto. Most were well used, almost all were altered for specific bodies.Plus, it's probably like the market in used sterling silverware: replacements.com wants a *fortune* for single pieces flatware, but when you want to sell *to* them they offer peanuts.
Not necessarily. Those 20s, 30s and 40s might be valuable just for the envelopes. I used to sell a lot of old household, sewing, office stuff on eBay that was bought by property warehouses. When they need to do a set for a period piece, they like to have it on hand if it isn't horribly costly. So while they don't keep many Ming vases or Tiffany lamps on the shelf, they do keep other things.
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