Pattern making in the age of print
- Directions for taking measurements (1849)
- Handbook of Practical Cutting on the Centre point System
- Block Pattern Advertisement (c.1897)
Fashion books and magazines
Sewing Machines
- Grover, Baker, & Co. Sewing Machine Advertisement
- Sewing Machine Costume with a Wheeler & Wison sewing machine (1869)
- Punch on sewing machines (1866)
Related material
Bibliography
Emery, Joy Spanabel. A History of the Paper Pattern Industry: The home Dressmaking Fashion Revolution. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. [Reviewed by Susan Guralnik]
Gideon, Sigfried. Mechanization Takes Command: A Contribution to Anonymous History. New York: Norton, 1969.
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