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  2. History of sewing patterns - Wikipedia

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    Cut-out tissue paper patterns were included around 1881. In the United States, Report of Fashion and Mirror of Fashions was founded in 1827, and by 1840 included patterns for men's clothing. From the 1830s on, shops in England advertised paper sewing patterns for sale, initially for professional dressmakers but also available for home sewers.

  3. Simplicity Pattern - Wikipedia

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    Simplicity Pattern. The Simplicity Pattern Company is a manufacturer of sewing pattern guides, under the "Simplicity Pattern", "It's So Easy" and "New Look" brands. The company was founded in 1927 in New York City. During the Great Depression, Simplicity allowed home seamstresses to create fashionable clothing in a reliable manner.

  4. Butterick Publishing Company - Wikipedia

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    Butterick Publishing Company. The Butterick Publishing Company was founded by Ebenezer Butterick to distribute the first graded sewing patterns. By 1867, it had released its first magazine, Ladies Quarterly of Broadway Fashions, followed by The Metropolitan in 1868. These magazines contained patterns and fashion news. [ 1]

  5. Pattern (sewing) - Wikipedia

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    Storage of patterns. Fitting a nettle/canvas-fabric on a dress form. In sewing and fashion design, a pattern is the template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto woven or knitted fabrics before being cut out and assembled. Patterns are usually made of paper, and are sometimes made of sturdier materials like paperboard or cardboard ...

  6. Ebenezer Butterick - Wikipedia

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    Butterick offered precut patterns of this type until the late 1940s, when they began to produce uncut, printed patterns (as sold today). The patterns were offered one size to a package until the 1980s, when slower sales made "multisized" patterns (which had several different sizes in the same package) more cost effective.

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    Baugh has been convicted for similar crimes over several years. He pleaded guilty to second-degree theft in December 2021 for tricking a 75-year-old man out of $13,000 for landscaping work that ...

  8. Banksy - Wikipedia

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    On 27 April 2007, a new record high for the sale of Banksy's work was set with the auction of the work Space Girl and Bird fetching £288,000 (US$576,000) around 20 times the estimate at Bonhams of London. [71] On 21 May 2007 Banksy gained the award for Art's Greatest living Briton. Banksy, as expected, did not turn up to collect his award and ...

  9. Category:Sewing - Wikipedia

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    Fabric tube turning. Facing (sewing) Feed sack dress. Felled seam. Floating canvas.