paper-pattern

Updated: August 2, 2026

We find paper-pattern companies flourishing; dress goods selling in the retail departments as they have always sold; seamstresses fully occupied; and we conclude that for some time yet the question of buying or making will find individual solution, according to means, inclination, and ability.

Marguerite Dickson - Vocational Guidance for Girls

Then I damned at Smithie, and wrote a card to Marion. "Dear Marion," I said, "how goes it?" She astonished me tremendously by telling me she had married again "a Mr. Wachorn, a leading agent in the paper-pattern trade."

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Tono Bungay