From Paper Patterns to Patterns on Fabric : Sewing Patterns in Sweden, 1881-1981
Törnvall, Gunilla LU
(2021)
The Association of Dress Historians Annual
- Abstract
- This paper will present an ongoing survey of the production and distribution of commercial paper patterns for home sewing in Sweden, focusing on three different pattern magazines. Two of the magazines initially offered paper patterns until the 1960s when they changed to offering patterns cut out in fabric. The survey is the first part of the research project, titled, Reading Patterns: Women, Clothes and Print Culture in Sweden 1881-1981, financed by the Swedish Research Council, 2019-2022. The main purpose is to examine and analyse, from a book historical perspective, the function and impact of print culture in the development, diffusion and reading of paper patterns for women’s clothes production in Sweden, and to explore related... (More)
- This paper will present an ongoing survey of the production and distribution of commercial paper patterns for home sewing in Sweden, focusing on three different pattern magazines. Two of the magazines initially offered paper patterns until the 1960s when they changed to offering patterns cut out in fabric. The survey is the first part of the research project, titled, Reading Patterns: Women, Clothes and Print Culture in Sweden 1881-1981, financed by the Swedish Research Council, 2019-2022. The main purpose is to examine and analyse, from a book historical perspective, the function and impact of print culture in the development, diffusion and reading of paper patterns for women’s clothes production in Sweden, and to explore related mechanisms and powers of ideological patterns within the culture of home sewing. With new image printing techniques, increased advertising and the invention of commercial paper patterns, there was an increase in the publishing of women's magazines with patterns for home sewing in Scandinavia at the beginning of the twentieth century, as well as in many other western European countries. With a pattern, cheap fabric and a sewing machine, women could take control of their own dresses and their own appearances. (Less)
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- Törnvall, Gunilla
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- alternative title
- Från pappersmönster till mönster på tyg : Sömnadsmönster i Sverige, 1881-1981
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- 2021-06-07 - 2021-06-13
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- Reading Patterns: Women, Clothes and Print Culture in Sweden 1881-1981
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- English
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abstract = {{This paper will present an ongoing survey of the production and distribution of commercial paper patterns for home sewing in Sweden, focusing on three different pattern magazines. Two of the magazines initially offered paper patterns until the 1960s when they changed to offering patterns cut out in fabric. The survey is the first part of the research project, titled, Reading Patterns: Women, Clothes and Print Culture in Sweden 1881-1981, financed by the Swedish Research Council, 2019-2022. The main purpose is to examine and analyse, from a book historical perspective, the function and impact of print culture in the development, diffusion and reading of paper patterns for women’s clothes production in Sweden, and to explore related mechanisms and powers of ideological patterns within the culture of home sewing. With new image printing techniques, increased advertising and the invention of commercial paper patterns, there was an increase in the publishing of women's magazines with patterns for home sewing in Scandinavia at the beginning of the twentieth century, as well as in many other western European countries. With a pattern, cheap fabric and a sewing machine, women could take control of their own dresses and their own appearances.}},
author = {{Törnvall, Gunilla}},
language = {{eng}},
title = {{From Paper Patterns to Patterns on Fabric : Sewing Patterns in Sweden, 1881-1981}},
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year = {{2021}},
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