• Total Number of Patterns in the Database: 63636



• Total Number of Patterns added in last 10 days: 0



• Total Number of Garments added in last 10 days: 0

• The Archive Saving Home Sewing History from the Trash by Mia Sato (The Verge, June 20, 2022)


• In Memoriam: Joy Spanabel Emery (1936-2018) by Linda Welters (Costume Society of America, 2018)


• Feedbag clothing and the Pattern Archive, Dec 2017


• Grant to Aid Pattern Archive, Oct 2017


• URI boasts world's largest collection of sewing patterns by Jennifer McDermott (Providence Journal, Dec. 26, 2016


• Interview with Joy Spanabel Emery, Threads, Jul 2015


• Providence Journal: URI Curator's New Book, Sep 2014


• A History of the Paper Pattern Industry, Aug 2014


• CoPA Expands with Innovations, Nov 2009

Rhode Island Foundation

Name of the Fund:
Joy Spanabel Emery Endowment Fund

Follow this link: Joy Spanabel Emery Endowment Fund
For the Commercial Pattern Archive (CoPA) at the
University of Rhode Island Distinctive (Special) Collections

Commercial Pattern Archive at URI

De facto Curator: Karen Walton Morse
(Director of Distinctive Collections)

Phone: 401-874-2713
Email: copa@etal.uri.edu
Facebook: www.facebook.com/CoPA.uri

Open: By appointment only,
Monday-Friday, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Distinctive Collections, URI Carothers Library
15 Lippitt Rd, Kingston RI 02881