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Pattern is a design composed of repeating motifs arranged in a regular manner. Historically, obtaining well-fitting customized clothing was difficult except for the wealthy, but women's magazines in the early 19th century included tissue paper patterns to allow home sewing of fashionable dresses. Ebenezer Butterick later developed graded paper patterns for mass production, selling millions by the 1870s and allowing women greater access to stylish, well-fitting garments. Common pattern types include checks, dots, floral motifs, and geometric designs that originate from various cultures and regions.

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Home Science

Pattern is a design composed of repeating motifs arranged in a regular manner. Historically, obtaining well-fitting customized clothing was difficult except for the wealthy, but women's magazines in the early 19th century included tissue paper patterns to allow home sewing of fashionable dresses. Ebenezer Butterick later developed graded paper patterns for mass production, selling millions by the 1870s and allowing women greater access to stylish, well-fitting garments. Common pattern types include checks, dots, floral motifs, and geometric designs that originate from various cultures and regions.

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Elements Of Art

Pattern

Pattern
A design for decorating a
surface composed of a number
of elements (motifs) arranged in
a regular or formal manner.
Motifs-One or many distinctive and recurring
elements, forms, shapes, or figures that make up a
design.

History

For Centuries, Obtaining Fashionable


Clothing That Also Fit Properly Was Difficult
To Do.
The Wealthy Hired Tailors Or Professional
Dressmakers To Sew Custom-fit Fashions.
However, Those Of Lesser Means Muddled
Through With Old Clothes, Makeshift
Fashions That Were Ill-fitting, Or Lived With
Re-made Hand-me-downs.

However, by the early nineteenth century,


some women's magazines included pattern
pieces for garments such as corsets in order
to assist women in obtaining fashionable
dress. Since the pieces were simply illustrated
on a small magazine page and just a few
inches in size, they were not easy to use.
About the time of the Civil War, tailor
Ebenezer Butterick developed the massproduced tissue-paper pattern sized
according to a system of proportional grading

The Buttericks established a company in


New York City and began mass-producing
ladies' dress patterns by 1866. It is reputed
that Butterick alone sold six million clothing
pattern by 1871. James McCall, another
pattern entre-preneur, produced women's
clothing patterns shortly thereafter as well.
At last American women could obtain a
well-fitting, rather stylish garment by using
a mass-produced clothing pattern

Techniques:
Printing
Fabric is woven
Fair isle (technique)

Fair Isle is a traditional knitting


technique used to create patterns with
multiple colours. It is named after
Fair Isle, a tiny island in the north of
Scotland.

Symmetrical pattern When motifs in


a pattern are symmetrical, and the
pattern looks the same when flipped
or turned.
Asymmetrical Pattern A pattern
lacking visible signs of symmetry.
There is absence of symmetry in the
motif. .

Jumbo Dot

Types of patterns
Airbrush

Imitating effects produced with


a painter's spray air gun.
Often creates patterns with a
light, soft, and modern look

Anthemion
A classical motif based on a stylized
honeysuckle plant or a radiating, fanshaped palm leaf (palmette) commonly
found in Greek, Egyptian, Assyrian, and
other ancient art

Boteh
A stylized teardrop-shaped
design originally on shawls from
Kashmir and mass-produced in
Paisley, Scotland

District Check
A check pattern that originates from
uniforms identifying specific
Scottish estates. Famous district
check patterns include the Glen
checks, the Shepherd, the Dupplin,
the Benmore, and others

Ditzy
A ditzy (ditsie) is an allover
design of small buds, circles,
zigzags, and other elements
that are simple, eccentrically
silly, and may be funny

Dotted Swiss
A pattern of small, evenly
spaced raised dots (usually
on a thin, lightweight fabric).

GAME
TIME

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