Bibliography¶
Drafting Manuals¶
Margaret Blair. System of Garment Drafting. H. L. Collins Company, 1897. URL: https://archive.org/details/margaretblairsys00blai.
Margaret J. Blair. System of Sewing and Garment Drafting. Webb Publishing Co., 1904. URL: https://archive.org/details/margaretjblairss00blai.
Pearl Merwin. The American system of dressmaking. Kansas City, Mo., The American College of Dressmaking, 1909. URL: https://archive.org/details/americansystemof00merw.
Charles John. Stone. Superlative system of cutting ladies' garments. Chicago, The C. J. Stone co. cutting school, 1897. URL: https://archive.org/details/superlativesyste00ston.
W. D. F. (William D. F.) Vincent. The cutters’ practical guide to the cutting of ladies’ garments. London, J. Williamson, 1892. See also https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_cutters%27_practical_guide_to_the_cutting_of_ladies%27_garments for plates 2 and 3, missing on the archive.org copy. URL: https://archive.org/details/cutterspractical00vinc/.
Miscellaneous¶
Bertha Banner. Household Sewing with Home Dressmaking. Longmans, Green, and co., 1898. URL: https://archive.org/details/householdsewing00banngoog.
Beeton. Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic information. London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C., 1979. URL: https://archive.org/details/gri_33125012088023/.
Barbara Burman and Ariane Fennetaux. The Pocket — A Hidden History of Women's Lives. Yale University Press, 2019. URL: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL29481979M/Pocket.
Ida Robinson Burton and Myron Garfield Burton. School sewing based on home problems. Muncie, Ind., Vocational Supply Company, 1916. URL: https://archive.org/details/schoolsewingbase00burt.
Butterick Publishing Company. Dressmaking up to date. New York [etc.] The Butterick publishing company, limited, 1905. URL: https://archive.org/details/dressmakinguptod00butt.
Jeanette E Davis. The elements of modern dressmaking for the amateur and professional dressmaker : being also a handbook for the use of students and for candidates preparing for the examinations in dressmaking under the City and Guilds of London Institute. 1896. URL: https://archive.org/details/krl00001156.
Elizabeth Friendship. Making Working Women's Costume. Crowood Press, 2018. URL: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL27803094M/.
Godey. Godey's lady's book. L.A. Godey, 1840. URL: https://archive.org/details/godeysladysboo00phil.
Annie E Myers. Home dressmaking; a complete guide to household sewing. Chicago, C.H. Sergel & company, 1892. URL: https://archive.org/details/homedressmakingc00myer.
Workwoman. The workwoman's guide, containing instructions in cutting out and completing articles of wearing. 1840. URL: https://archive.org/details/workwomansguide00workgoog.
Workwoman. The workwoman's guide, containing instructions in cutting out and completing articles of wearing…. 1840. URL: https://archive.org/details/workwomansguide00hale.
Websites¶
FIDM Museum. Combination undergarments. 2010. Accessed 2023-05-05. URL: https://fidmmuseum.org/2010/10/combination-undergarments.html.
Victoria and Albert Museum. Women's tie-on pockets. 2021. Accessed 2022-04-18. URL: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/womens-tie-pockets.
FreeSoftWear¶
Other places that publish textile craft patterns under a Free Culture license.
FreeSewing community. Freesewing. 2019. Parametric design sewing patterns under the CC-BY license. URL: https://freesewing.org/.
Morgan Lemmer-Webber. 2022. FreeSoftWear patterns by Morgan Lemmer-Webber, co-host of FOSS and Crafts. URL: https://mlemmer.org/tag/freesoftwear.html.