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Ebenezer Butterick (29 May 1826 – 31 March 1903) was an American tailor, inventor, manufacturer, and fashion business executive, born in Sterling, Massachusetts. Life and work [ edit ]
The first major manufacturer to offer tissue paper sewing patterns in graduated sizes was Ebenezer Butterick, a Massachusetts tailor. [2] Butterick launched The Butterick Company in 1863 to create heavy cardboard templates for children's clothing. Butterick's innovation was offering every pattern in a series of standard, graded sizes. Members ...
Ebenezer Butterick invented the commercially produced graded home sewing pattern in 1863 (based on grading systems used by Victorian tailors), originally selling hand-drawn patterns for men's and boys' clothing. In 1866, Butterick added patterns for women's clothing, which remains the heart of the home sewing pattern market today. [9]
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]
Women had become accustomed to seeing the latest fashions in periodicals during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, increasing demand for sewing patterns yet more. American tailor and manufacturer Ebenezer Butterick met the demand with paper patterns that could be traced and used by home sewers. The patterns, sold in small packets, became ...
Ebenezer Butterick (1826–1903), inventor of tissue paper dress patterns, which revolutionized home sewing. The town's municipal building is located in the old Butterick School, which was named after his daughter, Mary Ellen; Edwin Conant, Businessman, Attorney, Philanthropist; Charles Herbert Colvin, aeronautical engineer
Ebenezer Butterick (1826–1903), American tailor, inventor and businessman Matthew Butterick (born 1970), American typographer, lawyer and writer Mike Butterick , a New Zealand politician
Aaron Montgomery Ward was born on February 17, 1843 [3] in Chatham, New Jersey. [4] to a large family with a modest income.When he was about 9 years old, his father Sylvester Ward moved the family to Niles, Michigan, where Montgomery [4] attended public schools.