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One of the things by which the internet justifies its continued existence:

The Antique Pattern Library, a labour of love that collects for free sharing an immense range of out of print and otherwise unknown texts and other resources on an equally immense range of popular and decorative arts, mostly of the 19th and early-to-mid 20th centuries. If you want to know how to make your own 1920s-style underwear, crochet something that passes for Cluny lace, organise a March and Drill for sixteen small girls dressed as roses, or need "instructions for making flowers of wax, rice-paper, lamb's wool, and cambric, with a great variety of articles", this website has it all.

https://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/html/warm/catalog.htm

They are also always in need of appropriately-skilled people to help them catalogue items.

I practice some of these in a very sporadic way, since embroidery is one of those things that does not hurt if left to lie fallow for a decade or so. And it has occurred to me that it would be very nice to have a tapestry kit of Otto Eckmann's "Five Swans" tapestry. A full-size tapestry kit. Failing which I would have to actually draw it myself. The advantage of this is that I could modify it, and it would be "Five Swans In Lothlorien". The disadvantage is that it just wouldn't happen, because I am idle.