CoPA Updates
Statistics
- Todays Date: 2025-10-05
- Total Number of Patterns in the Database: 63669
- Total Number of Patterns added in last 10 days: 0
- Total Number of Garments added in last 10 days: 0
- Witness2Fashion Feature Article
- 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