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2. Simplicity Pattern - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. History of sewing patterns - Wikipedia

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   Weldon's was the first major commercial pattern company in England, founded in 1879, and accompanied by a magazine to sell the patterns. [2] Weldon's later added a Canadian edition of Weldon's Ladies' Journal with patterns. Weldon's continued to produce patterns into the 1950s. [3] Simplicity Pattern Co. Inc. started producing patterns in 1927 ...

4. 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 ...

5. Sewing - Wikipedia

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   Home sewers often work from sewing patterns purchased from companies such as Simplicity, Butterick, McCall's, Vogue, and many others. Such patterns are typically printed on large pieces of tissue paper; a sewer may simply cut out the required pattern pieces for use but may choose to transfer the pattern onto a thicker paper if repeated use is ...

6. 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]

7. Dart (sewing) - Wikipedia

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   Dart (sewing) Suit by Pierre Balmain, 1957, with shaping darts at bust and waist. The reverse side of fabric showing where a dart has been taken in and stitched to tailor the shape of a garment to the wearer. Darts are folds (tucks coming to a point) sewn into fabric to take in ease and provide shape to a garment, especially for a woman's bust.