Tag: sewing

The archive saving home sewing history from the trash

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Director of Distinctive Collections, Karen Morse gives a tour of the Consumer Pattern Archive housed in Carothers Library at the University of Rhode Island. The largest of it's kind in the world, it contains over 60,000 patterns dating from 1847. Kingston, Rhode Island on April 21st 2022.

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 […]