I got an email in my facebook inbox from a friend of mine who knows I spend most of my time sewing. She sent me this link where COPA-Commercial Pattern Archive is opening it’s pattern archive to the public for one week!

So click http://www.uri.edu/library/special_collections/COPA/index.php and then for the username type in “guest” and the password is “pattern”

Oh, it is beautiful to see all those patterns, dated to the early 1800’s! And of cours