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Item of Interest
This Archive is Saving Home Sewing History from the Trash
The Consumer Pattern Archive (CoPA) housed in Carothers Library at the University of Rhode Island is the largest of its kind in the world.
CoPA is home to around 60,000 physical and digital patterns dating back to the 1800s, along with books, pamphlets, journals, and other related materials. It is one of the few projects in the world that safeguards these documents, which are fragile, easily forgotten, and born to die.
A labor of love - and the insistence on the part of a small team of historians, costume designers, archivists, and hobbyists - the archive began in the 1990s, and includes a physical stash and digital database of English-language patterns unparalleled in its scope and depth.
This Archive is Saving Home Sewing History from the Trash
The Consumer Pattern Archive (CoPA) housed in Carothers Library at the University of Rhode Island is the largest of its kind in the world.
CoPA is home to around 60,000 physical and digital patterns dating back to the 1800s, along with books, pamphlets, journals, and other related materials. It is one of the few projects in the world that safeguards these documents, which are fragile, easily forgotten, and born to die.
A labor of love - and the insistence on the part of a small team of historians, costume designers, archivists, and hobbyists - the archive began in the 1990s, and includes a physical stash and digital database of English-language patterns unparalleled in its scope and depth.
