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ITS COMING TOGETHER! I cut out the back panels last night and just designed the front of the cape.

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Nearly 60,000 sewing patterns preserve and document history.

Sewing patterns provide a uniquely detailed look at the lives of working-class people throughout history that clothing collections held at museums or universities seldom offer. These patterns — flimsy packets of paper covered in shapes, numbers, and symbols — guide sewists through the process of making everything from sweatpants to wedding dresses. And through most of the 20th century, before manufacturers moved production to capitalize on cheap labor abroad, sewing at home was a way to have high-quality clothing for less money.

But scholarship around patterns and home sewing is still relatively underappreciated, often dismissed as women’s work or insignificant to fashion and art. The common pattern’s ubiquitousness only adds to its disposability — patterns were cheap to purchase and finicky to preserve and were never meant to last.

For the community of vintage sewing enthusiasts, an unassuming website maintained by the University of Rhode Island is a priceless and irreplaceable treasure. The Commercial Pattern Archive is one of the few projects in the world that safeguards these documents that are fragile, easily forgotten, and born to die. A labor of love and insistence on the part of a small team of historians, costume designers, archivists, and hobbyists, the archive began in the 1990s and includes a physical stash and digital database of English-language patterns unparalleled in its scope and depth. CoPA is home to around 56,000 physical patterns going back to the 1800s, along with books, pamphlets, journals, and other related material.

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Hello!

Welcome to my newest little side tumblr. The Sewing Lobby is a corner I hope to fill with sewing resources, project mood boards, WIPs, and finished projects. I want to use this space for my own reference and inspiration as much as I’d like to (hopefully!) engage with sewists online. I’m starting this here because, tbh, my sewing Instagram makes me miserable more often than not and!!!! I think I deserve better than that.

A little about me: I’m a 20-something living in Washington, DC. I used to work in ✨ government relations ✨ as an analyst, which is another way of saying that I worked with a lot of lobbyists and decided that, no way in hell was a job in politics for me. I’m currently in grad school and picked up sewing as an outlet (as many did) during the pa-mamma-mia. I got into sewing because I was frustrated that I plus-sized clothes that A) aligned with my personal style and B) fit well. I’m still a beginner, but I hope that I’ll be able to add some pieces to my wardrobe that make me happy and bring me confidence. Outside of sewing, I live in an apartment with my boyfriend and my cat, Roz. She’s small and angry, but I love her beyond reason.

My style is a little all over the place, but in my fantasies I own an incredible studious/punk wardrobe (think, dark academia but loves glam rock). My current long-ish term goal is to make a pair of looooong trousers (which will then clear my skin, help me sleep better at night, etc. etc.).

I haven’t explored much of the sewist space on Tumblr but I’m happy to be here regardless! Thanks for stopping by.

xoxo

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