The archive saving home sewing history from the trash

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The archive saving home sewing history from the trash
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.

Sewing patterns are meant to be trashed — or not

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