Tag: commercial patterns

  • Magazine of the Week

    Hi, all! This week’s Magazine of the Week is really a pattern catalog: Marfy is a pre-drawn clothing patterns company.  Think Vogue or Burda.  The company was established in 1966, and specializes in high-style womenswear.  It also claims to be the first pattern company in Italy to sell patterns for special occasion wear. When we…

  • New Needles (in the Stacks): Sewing for Fun and Profit

      While I apologize for the sewing/crafty focus of this blog, the fact that it’s fall means new clothes for school!  Indeed, I know that many of you have already begun months of work in draping labs. While shelving in the Main Stacks area, I’ve noticed is that we have a lot of books that…