Today’s random digitised ephemera is from the “Vintage Patterns” pool on Flickr (which has 885 members, 4266 images, so is a pretty impressive archive based on community input).
One of the reasons I love Flickr is the way it encourages groups of interested individuals to pool images of their collections together – creating hundreds of micro online museums/archives, many of which provide detailed and sometimes exhaustive metadata about the type of items which normally go under the institutional radar.
I love not only the history of fashion element to the vintage patterns pool, but the history of graphic art and design.
Melissa Terras 