Ebenezer Butterick
intermediateStub
American tailor who in 1863 introduced graded, multi-size tissue paper sewing patterns sold to home sewers, founding a company that made dressmaking accessible beyond professional tailors.
This article is a stub.
Know this technique? Help write it.
See also
Butterick
One of the oldest home sewing pattern companies, founded in Massachusetts in 1863; it published patterns and the fashion magazine The Delineator, shaping American home dressmaking for over a century.
Tissue paper pattern
A lightweight paper template printed with garment pieces, seam markings, and instructions, cut and pinned to fabric as a sewing guide; commercial tissue patterns became widespread from the 1860s.
Burda Style
German pattern and fashion magazine founded by Aenne Burda in 1950, distinctive for printing many patterns overlapping on shared sheets; it expanded into an international sewing brand and website.
Mail-order sewing pattern
Patterns sold by post directly to home sewers from catalogs or magazines, a distribution model that let rural and small-town customers access current fashions from the 1870s onward.
Pattern grading
The technique of scaling a garment pattern up or down across a range of sizes while preserving proportion and fit, historically done by hand and now largely computer-assisted.
Edited 11 h · 1 views
Threads about Ebenezer Butterick