The archive saving home sewing history from the trash - The Verge

The Commercial Pattern Archive at the University of Rhode Island houses nearly 60,000 sewing patterns dating back to the 1840s. An online database of patterns is available for the public.

Lara A. Greene keeps her antique sewing patterns in plastic tubs, stashed in the first-floor workshop of her old Victorian home so she can throw them out the window if her house goes up in flames. Gr… [+12160 chars]

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