Glance around any department store and you’ll find a veritable buffet of textile patterns that you can rattle off without a second thought: plaid, stripes, paisley, seersucker, fleur-de-lis. Each ...

A yarn-woven Garfield, a highland cow and a baby dragon are just some of the cute plush items displayed in the Etsy stores of crochet-pattern merchants. But shoppers at the online store, which ...

Each pattern was issued in a color-printed envelope suitable for mailing, with the pattern number, title, price, copyright date, and an image of the finished product printed on the envelope.