'End of an era' for sewing paper patterns in New Zealand?

For generations, sewers discovered their craft by leafing through catalogues, unfolding tissue sheets and choosing patterns ...
The Guardian

The end of the paper trail? Australia’s largest garment pattern supplier is closing and sewers are worried – but pragmatic

For many sewers, choosing paper patterns from one of Simplicity McCall’s ‘big four’ brands was an in-store ritual. But others say digital patterns are the way of the future Decades ago, in the ...
Time

Business: Patterns

No one knows whether it was Ebenezer Butterick or his smart wife Ellen who invented the standardized paper pattern for clothes. Plodding, methodical Ebenezer, seventh son of a Sterling, Mass, ...
The Courier-Mail

Simplicity McCall’s liquidated as global shutdown hits Australia

The company behind 99 per cent of Spotlight’s sewing patterns is closing its Australian warehouse as part of a global shutdown, with thousands of patterns likely to wind up in landfill. Simplicity and ...
The New Zealand Herald

Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue, New Look and Butterick sewing patterns disappear from NZ stores

The most popular Vogue looks ordered over the years by Pattern Postie customers include an iconic 1970s Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress. Big brand sewing patterns will no longer be available to buy ...