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Folkwear Sewing Patterns Folkwear provides high quality sewing patterns for historic and folk clothing from around the world based on authentic garments, with special focus on embellishment details, history, and honor of the garments and the cultures and times they originate from. Folkwear is committed to continuing to create patterns for clothing from around the world and throughout history, with full respect to the cultures and time periods from which they originate. Folkwear values diversity, people, and cultures around the world, and through work, education, and donations will promote the uplift of people (especially women), and global cultures. Folkwear is also committed to environmental sustainability. We offer many patterns as PDF downloads (adding more all the time) to reduce fossil fuel use in shipping printed patterns. We ship patterns world-wide and electronically distribute patterns instantly world-wide. We strive to offer patterns in a wide range of sizes to fit a wide range of bodies and are actively working to extend our size range of patterns for shirts, dresses, blouses, skirts, aprons, pants, slacks, coats, jackets, vests and garments from sizes xs - xxxl for both men's and women's bodies and bodies of all types. Our patterns include historical and cultural information, technical tips on DIY sewing and sewing how-to information for sewing with historical and traditional techniques.