Vintage Pattern Tracing & Storage

Or, What do you do with your old North Korea maps?! We have been weeding lots of out-of-date maps at work (Soviet Union, anyone?), and I’ve been doing my best to put them to good use. One vintage-related use is to redraw patterns onto these maps, to make them sturdier. Another, which I’m actually more pleased about, is to turn the old maps into envelopes, mark the pattern name & number on the front with a short description, and then put the original pattern, its envelope & the newly-traced pattern all inside. Because the new envelope is a LOT bigger, it requires much less folding (ergo, less frustration), and it means the more fragile vintage pattern doesn’t have to be manhandled back into a tiny envelope, which, by the way, is probably tearing, too!

Here’s Bella, supervising me from under a North Korea map…