<P> Four historic American pattern companies still exist: </P> <Ol> <Li> Butterick </Li> <Li> McCall's </Li> <Li> Simplicity </Li> <Li> Vogue </Li> </Ol> <P> William Jennings Demorest and Ellen Louise Demorest began the home sewing pattern industry in 1860 by holding fashion shows in their homes and selling the patterns . This was the beginning of the Mme . Demorests' Emporium of Fashion . They published a magazine, The Mirror of Fashion, which listed hundreds of different patterns, most available in only one size . Patterns were of unprinted paper, cut to shape, and could be purchased "flat" (folded), or, for an additional charge, "made up" (with the separate pieces tacked into position). The latter version was intended to compensate for the absence of detailed instructions . </P> <P> Ebenezer Butterick launched The Butterick Company in 1863 to create heavy cardboard templates for children's clothing . Butterick's innovation was offering every pattern in a series of standard, graded sizes . Members of his family cut and folded the first patterns that were sold from their home . In 1866 Butterick began manufacturing patterns for women's fashions, and later added some articles of men's clothing . They began publishing the fashion magazine The Delineator in 1873 to publicize their patterns . Their patterns started as unprinted tissue paper cut to shape, folded and held together by a pinned (later pasted - on) label with an image and, later, brief instructions . In the early 1900s they began to use an envelope to hold the pattern . In the late 1910s they introduced a separate instruction sheet, called the "Deltor" (from the first three and last three letters of Delineator). In 1948, they purchased two new presses specially designed to print markings directly onto the pattern tissue . </P>

Who was responsible for making the first commercial pattern available to home sewers