While at an antique market, I recently ran across a delicate looking box made from old greeting cards with crochet finishing. Immediately, I knew what it was: “A Victorian Trinket box.” My grandma had made one.
The boxes were not made in the Victorian era because their main component, thin plastic, was obviously not around. But the name stuck due to the boxes’ ornate details.
They seem to arisen in popularity in the 1930’s and carried through to the 1950’s. So any box that you find may be up to 80 years old. Considering this, they hold up pretty well.
The flip side of this durability is that most of the box patterns are long gone. The instructions for the box required the destruction of its pattern. Thus no patterns.
I did the next best thing; measured existing boxes, made a pattern and adjusted as necessary.

Materials:
1/4″ Standard circle paper punch
8 Patterned Card stock paper sheets 8-1/2″x10″
Laminator or a trip to staples
Rubber Cement
Fingering weight Yarn
Tapestry needles
3.5mm crochet hook
Paper Clips or clothes pins
Scissors