Tag: books
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PatternVault 15th Anniversary!
15 years. 415 posts. 1,881 comments. 156,890 words. PatternVault is fifteen! To celebrate a decade and a half of writing about fashion and fine sewing, I’ll be taking a three-part retrospective look at highlights, from the blog’s beginnings in July 2011, right through to summer 2026. (And include a bit of a peek at what’s…
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In memoriam: Joy Emery
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…
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