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  2. History of sewing patterns - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Ebenezer Butterick - Wikipedia

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    The same year, Ebenezer Butterick died in Brooklyn, New York, aged 76. On June 30, 1907, The New York Times published a story concerning the electric sign on the western side of the Butterick Building: "[T]he Butterick Company has been moved to announce that the sign really is the largest in the world and to give some interesting facts about it.

  4. Butterick Publishing Company - Wikipedia

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    The magazine served as a marketing tool for Butterick patterns [4] and discussed fashion and fabrics, including advice for home sewists. [5] By 1876, E. Butterick & Co. had become a worldwide enterprise selling patterns as far away as Paris, London, Vienna and Berlin, with 100 branch offices and 1,000 agencies throughout the United States and ...

  5. The Delineator - Wikipedia

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    The Delineator featured the Butterick sewing patterns and provided an in-depth look at the fashion of the day. Butterick also produced quarterly catalogs of fashion patterns in the 1920s and early 1930s. [citation needed] In addition to clothing patterns, the magazine published photos and drawings of embroidery and needlework that could be used ...

  6. Dress - Wikipedia

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    Paper sewing patterns for women to sew their own dresses started to be readily available in the 1860s, when the Butterick Publishing Company began to promote them. [51] These patterns were graded by size, which was a new innovation. [52] The Victorian era's dresses were tight-fitting and decorated with pleats, rouching and frills. [41]

  7. Sewing - Wikipedia

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    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 wildly popular. Several pattern companies soon established themselves. Women's magazines also carried sewing patterns, and continued to do so for much of the 20th century.