In memoriam: Joy Emery

Joy Spanabel Emery, A History of the Paper Pattern Industry: The home dressmaking fashion revolution
A History of the Paper Pattern Industry, by Joy Spanabel Emery. Image: Bloomsbury.

Joy Emery, Professor Emerita of the University of Rhode Island and curator of the Commercial Pattern Archive, has died. She was 81.

Emery is the author of Stage Costume Techniques (Prentice-Hall, 1981) and A History of the Paper Pattern Industry (Bloomsbury, 2014), which I reviewed for this blog. Memorial donations may be made to the Joy Spanabel Emery Endowment Fund.

Read her obituary, or a 2016 URI profile upon winning USITT’s Distinguished Achievement Award in Costume Design and Technology.

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