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Univ Rhode Island Pattern Archive

Aug 23, 2009 19:51

For my sewing/weaving/knitting friends, crwilley posts that the Commercial Pattern Archive at the University of Rhode Island is having a free trial. See her journal entry for more info.CoPA On-Line, the Commercial Pattern Archive database with over 48,000 vintage pattern records with images of the pattern designs and small scale pattern pieces dating from ( Read more... )

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patches023 August 24 2009, 01:57:51 UTC

Maybe I am a bit clueless. I tried the site and couldn't figure out how to download anything. Is that not the point? Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks for forwarding this.

syntonic_comma August 24 2009, 05:04:15 UTC

I hadn't been to the site; I was just passing the info along. But I've tried it now. The search function by category/year/etc seemed to work fine, but I had to disable my ad-blocking proxy before I could see any patterns from the list of search matches. The patterns just seem to be JPGs, and (on the Mac) you'd save them with a control-click and a menu select. Getting them printed at a useful size seems like a bigger challenge.

There is a help link that gives you a PDF doc that covers searching and printing, but not saving.