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The Pattern Artist
by Nancy Moser
Book 1 in the The Pattern Artist series.
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English housemaid Annie Wood arrives in New York in 1911 with the wealthy family she serves, but the city’s scale and energy make lifelong domestic service seem less inevitable. She leaves the household, finds work in Macy’s sewing department and attracts the attention of the Butterick Pattern Company, entering an industry that translates couture into clothes ordinary women can make and wear.
Annie’s skill is real, yet advancement exposes her to exploitation, prejudice and memories she has tried to escape. Work in New York and contact with Paris fashion gradually reveal a vocation rather than merely a route out of poverty. Christian faith gives her ambition an ethical direction: talent becomes a responsibility to create useful beauty and to help other women gain independence.
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