The Commercial Pattern Archive, a University of Rhode Island project, is offering a free trial. From their website: “CoPA On-Line, the Commercial Pattern Archive database with over 48,000 vintage pattern records with images of the pattern designs and small scale pattern pieces dating from 1868 – 2000 will be free to everyone for one week starting Wednesday August 19 through Tuesday August 25.” It’s definitely worth a look.
There’s enough information there for experienced tailors to construct the garments, but a novice or anyone without extensive garment construction experience would be baffled.
3 responses to “Patterns”
Good info..thanks for the link!
some of those pattern covers were amazing. i’m not good enough with sewing to use the patterns, but it was an interesting thing to look around.
also under recent reads i’m getting an error using firefox 3 in the right nav under recent reads.
Recent Reads
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Oh my. Thanks for the link!