History of Butterick
In 1863, Ebeneezer Butterick changed the face of home sewing forever by creating the first graded sewing pattern.
Paper Dress PatternEbeneezer Butterick created the first graded sewing pattern.
By Mary Bellis, About.com Guide
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Ebenezer Butterick, together with his wife Ellen Augusta Pollard Butterick, invented the tissue paper dress pattern in 1863. Butterick founded the E. Butterick & Company (now the Butterick Publishing Company), in New York in 1867.
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