What's Included in a Digital Pattern?

Our downloadable products reflect growing trends in the genre of commercial patterns, in which digital patterns are printed, or projected, by home sewists. Digital patterns provide the opportunity to have detailed and image rich instructions as they can be viewed on a smart phone, tablet, or computer while creating a garment. Patterns that can be downloaded provide instant access and eliminate the wait for paper patterns that can sometimes take weeks, or in extreme examples even months to receive.

After purchasing a license from Civil War Patterns you receive a full-size digital pattern bundle within moments, that provides the following files:

• Detailed step-by-step instructions with multiple color images
• Printable Copy Shop-A0 paper size file (33 x 48”) for taking to a print shop or ordering from pattern printers online
• Printable Letter paper size file (8 1/2” by 11”) for tiling multiple pages together to print a pattern with a printer at home, a local library, an office, or a print shop
• Projector file for displaying the pattern on laid out fabric for cutting
• Layout diagrams for how to place pattern pieces on fabric

For those interested in having the Copy Shop-A0 size pattern pages printed (33 by 48"), we offer a print-on-demand service through a collaboration with a professional digital pattern printer. For more information, please visit this link and scroll down to the bottom of the page.

If you would like to print the Copy Shop-A0 size pattern pages yourself, sometimes online printing venues are the most economical in printing. Below are a few highlighted pattern printing vendors (pricing and shipping costs are of course subject to change):

Pattern Printing Company

https://patternprintingco.com/

• Pricing is $2.49 USD per sheet
• Folded for shipping
• Shipping has been $3.46 to $8.24 for up to ten sheets
• Printed on 16 lb. paper

Brooklyn Motif Printing

https://brooklynmotifprinting.com/

• Pricing is $5 USD for the first sheet of paper, and $2.50 for each additional sheet
• Folded for shipping
• Shipping has been $4.50 to $7.25 depending on size of order
• Printed on 18 lb. paper