KINGSTON, R.I., Dec. 19, 2016 \u2014It started decades ago with an old pattern for a skirt worn by an actress in the 溏心vlog免费B站 production \u201cAnne of Green Gables.\u2019\u2019 Joy Spanabel Emery was starstruck.<\/p>\n
One pattern led to two, and now Emery, a professor emerita of theater and former adjunct professor of textiles, fashion merchandising and design at 溏心vlog免费B站, has the largest collection of sewing patterns in the world\u201450,000 on paper and 61,000 in an electronic database.<\/p>\n
Over the years, she\u2019s received many honors for her devotion to clothing patterns, and now a national organization that promotes theater design is recognizing her.<\/p>\n
Emery, of West Kingston<\/strong>, has won the 2016 Distinguished Achievement Award in Costume Design and Technology from the United States Institute for Theatre Technology.<\/p>\n \u201cI was stunned,\u2019\u2019 says Emery. \u201cThe award has been given to so many people I respect enormously. I was very pleased to have my work recognized. It\u2019s a remarkable acknowledgement of my work. I\u2019m thrilled.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n Founded in 1960, the organization promotes dialogue, research and learning among people involved in theater design and technology. The achievement award is given annually to a person who has excelled in design or technology in the performing arts or entertainment industry.<\/p>\n Emery retired from teaching in 2000 and is curator of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Commercial Pattern Archive at the Robert L. Carothers Library and Learning Commons. The collection dates back to 1847 and represents nearly 100 different companies. Besides dressmaking patterns, the collection includes men\u2019s tailoring journals, fashion periodicals, pattern catalogs and historical sewing manuals from the 16th<\/sup> century to the present.<\/p>\n A costume designer, Emery says her collection is a labor of love\u2014and a wonderful way for costume designers to research what clothing actors should wear during performances. The collection includes everything from 1870 smoking jackets for men and 1950s cocktail party aprons to bodices and Zoot suits\u2014over-sized jackets and baggy pants worn in the 1940s.<\/p>\n Details about the patterns can be found in Emery\u2019s book, The History of the Paper Pattern Industry: the Home Dressmaking Fashion Revolution<\/em>. For more information about the book and collection, call Emery at 401-874-2713.<\/p>\n \u201cPatterns give insight into everyday wear,\u2019\u2019 says Emery. \u201cThey\u2019re a wonderful resource for costume designers.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KINGSTON, R.I., Dec. 19, 2016 \u2014It started decades ago with an old pattern for a skirt worn by an actress in the 溏心vlog免费B站 production \u201cAnne of Green Gables.\u2019\u2019 Joy Spanabel Emery was starstruck. One pattern led to two, and now Emery, a professor emerita of theater and former adjunct professor of textiles, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}