The Pattern Makers

Victorian Britain, 1840s. A small group of women are quietly building something remarkable — businesses, reputations, and a publishing trade — through the pattern books they write and sell alongside their yarn.

An interactive narrative drawn from real archival research, exploring the overlooked economic lives of women in early Victorian craft and retail. Meet the women behind the pattern books. Read their words. Understand what they were doing and why it mattered.

History is full of people who were extraordinary and forgotten. This game remembers some of them.