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	Ebenezer Butterick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ebenezer Butterick (29 May 1826 – 31 March 1903) was an American inventor, manufacturer, and fashion business executive, born in Sterling, Massachusetts.
		The Butterick family began selling their patterns from their Sterling, Massachusetts home, in 1863, and the business expanded so quickly that, in one year, they had a factory at 192 Broadway Street in New York City.
		By 1876, E. Butterick and Co. had 100 branch offices and 1,000 agencies throughout the United States and Canada, and was becoming steadily more popular internationally, especially in Europe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ebenezer_Butterick (425 words)

	Butterick's History
		Ebenezer tried lighter papers and discovered that tissue paper was ideal to work with and much easier to package.
		Butterick's patterns for the Garibaldi Suit sparked a great increase in pattern sales and carried the name of Butterick into households across the United States.
		Butterick patterns not only met the fastidious requirements of the Parisienne, they were praised by royalty all over Europe.
	www.butterick.com /bhc/pages/articles/histpgs/about.html (3023 words)

	The Origin of Patterns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ebenezer Butterick, a skilled tailor, immediately saw both the justice and future of the idea.
		Folded into envelopes with an instruction sheet, Butterick patterns were the first on the market that were sized and did not have to be cut out of magazines.
		Butterick patterns and the sewing machine brought fashion to middle-class families for the first time.
	wesclark.com /jw/buttrick.html (408 words)

	Sewing pattern makers merging (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		McCall and Butterick are the oldest U.S. makers of sewing patterns, an industry that took off in the 19th century.
		In fact, Ebenezer Butterick's timing couldn't have been better when he used his tailoring scissors in 1863 to fashion tissue paper into the first sewing patterns in different sizes.
		Butterick, which also makes the Vogue line of patterns, was losing market share and at risk of going out of business.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2001/06/05/fin_sewing_pattern.html (823 words)

	Only in America
		One night in 1863 Ebenezer the tailor listened as his wife wrestled a piece of fabric, trying to put together a dress for their daughter.
		Professional tailors and seamstresses made their own patterns from heavy cloth or leather, but this was much too expensive for the typical homemaker.
		But Eb believed he was on to something, so he went ahead and gave it a try.
	www.bargainomics.com /onlyinamerica/2004/May2004.htm (147 words)

	Ebenezer Scrooge -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The chief character in Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly businessman who is reformed when the ghost of his business partner haunts him on Christmas Eve with visions of the past, the present, and a very gloomy future.
		Hoar, Ebenezer R. American politician, a leading antislavery Whig in Massachusetts who was briefly attorney general in President Ulysses S. Grant's administration.
		One of the most beloved and enduring stories of English novelist Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol tells of the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge from a mean-spirited miser to the soul of generosity and the embodiment of the virtues Dickens saw in Christmas.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9341689 (553 words)

	Butterick History: http://www.sew-whats-new.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		His wife was sewing a baby dress for their son Howard and lamented that she wished for a pattern the same size as their little boy.
		The first Butterick patterns were cut, folded and sold from their home.
		With the Butterick Patterns - dressmaking and fashion was available to all classes of people - all over the world.
	www.sew-whats-new.com /butterick_history.shtml (232 words)

	Culinary Arts Institute, Part 1
		The Butterick (Publishing) company opened in NY in 1864 after Ellen Butterick suggested the invention of the sewing pattern (in Spring '63) to her husband Ebenezer, who began marketing them publicly in 1866.
		To this day, the name Butterick is still associated with sewing patterns; their presence online can be found at this location.
		However, its subsequent edition, the New Butterick CB, originally printed in 1924, contained much the same format as the CAI collection that would be taken from it.
	www.friktech.com /cai/cai.htm (1585 words)

	Tops, Blocks, Slates & Smocks: Clothing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The creation of the paper pattern, by Ebenezer Butterick in 1863, transformed the garment industry.
		The process of homemade clothing was made easier and quicker because of the Butterick paper pattern and the sewing machine.
		Butterick manufactured paper patterns for adults and children.
	www.southeastmuseum.org /2002_Exhibit/Clothing/clothing.html (132 words)

	Ebenezer Kinnersley -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		Butterick established a pattern factory in Fitchburg, Mass., later that year and moved it to Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1869.
		Set in Scotland in the mid-1700s, it is a stirring coming-of-age story featuring young David Balfour, who discovers after the death of his father that his uncle Ebenezer has cheated him out of his inheritance.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9045566?tocId=9045566 (535 words)

	SAA: Business Archives Section Website
		The Butterick Archives was created over 25 years ago, and today contains a rich, diverse collection of source materials which chronicle the his/her story of fashion from 1863 to the present.
		Highlighting Butterick publications is The Delineator, a wide-ranging magazine that ran from 1872-1937 and was published in several languages.
		To discover the Butterick Archives is to experience the thread of his/herstory in relation to the expansive concerns and contributions of women to society and world culture.
	www.archivists.org /saagroups/bas/newsletter_1995.asp (8481 words)

	Twisted History, One Day at a Time - 29 May 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		1826 - Ebenezer Butterick, American manufacturer - Born Sterling, Massachusetts, developed paper patterns for multiple sizes of clothing for home sewing in 1859, patented the process, built a factory in Fitchburg in 1863, moved to Brooklyn in 1869.
		Butterick Patterns sold $110 million in Butterick and Vogue patterns and three magazines in 1998.
		Butterick died at Brooklyn on 31 March 1903.
	www.twistedhistory.com /issues/may/0529.html (991 words)

	Unmentionables: Front View, Back View - Underwear In America
		All unknown to Marjorie, in 1862 a certain Ebenezer Butterick was living at Sterling, Massachusetts.
		Butterick advanced upon New York in 1865 and set about forming a company, which shortly was duly incorporated under the law.
		"E. Butterick and Co." steadily advanced to the position of a concern of eminence, with quarters both in London and New York.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles08/unmentionables-13b.shtml (1498 words)

	Butterick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Butterick Patterns superman action comic In the Middle Ages, when an edifice was complete, there...
		Butterick Patterns tree dogwood Now, with la Esmeralda dead, the sponge was soaked, all was at an...
		Butterick Patterns harley saddle bag Nevertheless, it was time for this long series of moral and...
	catwomancostumekwq.mattcostume.com /butterickkqu (837 words)

	Turner Sisters 2
		10 1/2" Butterick Patterns, Ebenezer Butterick was born in the little town of Sterling Ma.
		While doing this he conceived the idea of making a set of graded patterns from which one could reproduce the garment in various sizes and also in quantity.
		In 1863 Butterick cut from stiff paper a short pattern in several different sizes.
	www.hersmine.com /Turner_Page_2.htm (658 words)

	Dressmaking History Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It was, however, a Yankee, Ebenezer Butterick (1826-1903), a native of Sterling, Massachusetts, and a tailor by trade, who, with the help of his wife Eleanor, first streamlined the process of patternmaking and made the paper pattern available to professionals and amateurs alike.
		It is said that Butterick brought fashion within the reach of any woman who owned a sewing machine, cloth, and the fifty cents that his patterns cost.
		Instead of drawing individual patterns onto the cloth with wax chalk, Butterick created an assembly-line operation by cutting a standard-sized pattern out of stiff paper and then using it as a template for cutting other patterns.
	www.bookrags.com /history/sciencehistory/dressmaking-woi (721 words)

	Measure forMeasure: Putting Numbers to the World Around Us
		Ebenezer Butterick was the first American to successfully mass-produce tissue-paper patterns that were sized according to a system of proportional grading.
		By 1868, E. Butterick and Co. offered 15 standard pattern sizes in a variety of styles, and in 1870 James McCall was advertizing mass-produced patterns in his magazine The Queen.
		These graded patterns were tremendously successful: Butterick, alone, was reported to have sold six million in 1871and by 1900, Butterick and McCall had many competitors.
	www.moah.org /exhibits/archives/measure.html (8270 words)

	MSN Encarta - Fashion
		A system of sizes and patterns made it possible to fit the body, especially the male body, without resorting to custom-made clothing.
		In North America, entrepreneurs such as Ellen Curtis Demorest and Ebenezer Butterick created paper dress patterns that helped popularize the latest styles.
		The growth of mass media also spread fashion information to the middle classes.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761585452_2/Fashion.html (1686 words)

	1800 - 1849 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		More patents on technology related to sewing would soon follow, and until 1856 production of sewing machines was severely limited because of patent disputes and litigation.
		Entrepreneur Ebenezer Butterick, a tailor-shirtmaker, developed a technique for printing and cutting paper dressmaking patterns for use with the new sewing machine.
		He was soon selling Butterick Patterns to women.
	web.bryant.edu /~ehu/h364/materials/wmn_chr/wmn-o_10.htm (383 words)

	Quotes of the Day for 29 May 2004 - Ebenezer Butterick and Patterns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ebenezer Butterick was born at Sterling, Massachusetts on this day in 1826.
		With his wife Ellen he developed printed dress patterns that could be cut for different dress sizes, first selling them to home sewers in 1863.
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	www.qotd.org /archive/2004/05/29.html (241 words)

	Forbes: Rudyard Kipling wrote here. (Butterick Co.'s now-defunct magazine publishing business)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Long before there was a fashion industry in the U.S., there was Butterick Co. The company began in 1863 when Ebenezer Butterick, a 27-year-old tailor in Sterling, Mass., designed a sewing pattern for his wife, who was struggling to cut fabric for a baby dress on their dining room table.
		She liked the pattern, and he quickly turned the idea into a business.
		By 1873 Butterick was selling some 6 million patterns a year, at 25 cents apiece.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:12235899&refid=ip_almanac_hf (207 words)

	From Petticoats to Prohibition: Innovations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Together with the sewing machine, women across America, and later the world, were able to sew the latest styles at a reasonable cost.
		The Butterick Company ventured into publishing with women’s interest magazines, the most notable being The Delineator (1872-1937).
		The Delineator and the Sears Roebuck and Company catalogue along with many other women’s magazines helped create the popular fashion culture of the time.
	www.southeastmuseum.org /2001_Exhibit/Innovations/innovations.html (183 words)

	Exhibit shows how home sewers kept passion alive
		The items range from a 1920s hand-stitched pink chemise, made from a Deltor Butterick pattern to a 1930s sheer cotton teddy made from a Simplicity pattern.
		A highlight of the show is a Butterick dress pattern taken from an Yves Saint Laurent design.
		She chose a Butterick pattern to make her wedding dress but changed the sleeve to create variation.
	advance.uri.edu /pacer/december1999/story30.htm (795 words)

	RustyZipper.Com Vintage Clothing on the Web - Over 12,000 items!
		The tragedy of the Demorests is that William never patented the Demorest paper pattern.
		In the 1880's, Ebenezer Butterick obtained the patents for his patterns and soon became the leading competitor.
		With pressure from Butterick, McCall and other emerging pattern companies, the Demorests sold their pattern business in 1887, setting the stage for a new generation of pattern makers.
	www.rustyzipper.com /shop.cfm?page=sq_sewingpattern&source=ec&kw=squib_sewingpattern (731 words)

	Quia - History of The sewing Machine & Patterns
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	www.quia.com /jg/531190list.html (44 words)

	Ebenezer Butterick
		He and his wife, Ellen Augusta Pollard Butterick (d.
		He established E. Butterick and Company in New York in 1867, added European offices and fashion magazines.
		He became secretary of the reorganized entity, Butterick Publishing Company, from 1881–94.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0771858.html (98 words)

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	CLOTHING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Browse through articles on the invention of the sewing machine and how leisure time and politics influence what people wear.
		Meet Ebenezer Butterick, fashion designer Jhane Barnes, and two women who design for the disabled.
		Gather some tips from a textile preservationist, batik a tee-shirt, and try your hand at a clothing crossword.
	www.cobblestonepub.com /book/COB8510.html (175 words)

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		De Alcega wanted to publish a complete work on tailoring but was prevented by the Spanish guilds--patterns were passed from masters to apprentices as prized trade "secrets." Patterns published for the general public definitely existed in preVictorian times, especially in ladies' "needlework and cutting out" manuals.
		However, the paper pattern business really blossomed in the 1860s, with the pattern companies established by Madame Demorest and Ebenezer Butterick.
		By this time there was a large, verbally and mathematically literate middle class eager to keep up with rapid fashion changes and to save money by home dressmaking.
	sca.uwaterloo.ca /~fashion/archives/hcos94/n074.cl (2568 words)

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