'End of an era' for sewing paper patterns in New Zealand?

For generations, sewers discovered their craft by leafing through catalogues, unfolding tissue sheets and choosing patterns ...
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Business: Patterns

No one knows whether it was Ebenezer Butterick or his smart wife Ellen who invented the standardized paper pattern for clothes. Plodding, methodical Ebenezer, seventh son of a Sterling, Mass, ...
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A history of the paper pattern industry : the home dressmaking fashion revolution / Joy Spanabel Emery

"Sewing patterns have been the principle blueprint for making garments in the home for centuries. From their origins in the tailoring manuals of the 16th century to the widely produced pamphlets of ...

End of an era for big brand paper dress patterns

It's the end of an era for DIY dressmakers, with the supplier of big brand paper patterns shutting down. An Australian distributer that supplies New Look, Simplicity, Vogue, Butterick and McCalls is ...