I have owned this book for a long time, and was surprised to realize that I'd never shared it here! I was reminded of it when I recently read
Wade Boissoniere's book about patterns from the 50s, and so I pulled this off the shelf and revisited it.
It's written by Joy Spanabel Emery, who was a professor at the University of Rhode Island. This university has a large pattern collection, which has merged with a few others to create the Commercial Pattern Archive.
This read is a bit of a mixed bag -- interesting to the reader who is already inclined to want to read about this, but a bit dry in style, and really follows the economic ups and downs of pattern companies as its main focus.
Still, I enjoyed finding out all about the varied companies and... [read more]
