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A history of the paper pattern industry: the home dressmaking fashion revolution Joy Spanabel Emery New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014 272 p. ill. ISBN 9780857858313. £19.99 / $34.95 (paperback).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , 2015 , pp. 38 - 40
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