I did not know this, from October 2021
https://d.facebook.com/coscraft/photos/a.202459063109082/4567919433229668/?type=3&source=48
Ten years ago, things were different with them. A lot happened in the meantime.
https://www.threadsmagazine.com/2012/02/09/mccalls-and-kwik-sew-join-forces
Uh, yes, the author does ignore Stretch and Sew (https://www.threadsmagazine.com/2015/08/20/ann-person-sewing-entrepreneur-dies-at-age-90) but this is about Martensson, not the industry.
I have been paying attention to the commercial pattern industry, but I have a full time job and classes and that hemming gig so I have let my attention wander. I did read this piece when it went up, which sums up the state of the commercial pattern industry at the time. I didn't bother with the comments at the time.
https://craftindustryalliance.org/css-industries-including-big-4-pattern-companies-acquired-by-design-group/
This article and the comments are worth reading if you haven't already; it touches on the snobbery of the indie fans and the nostalgia for a sewist's golden era (which for some of us was in the first era of Stretch And Sew and doubleknit, now known as ponte) but there's some good info buried in there (go to the end of the comments)(oh my god I'm in there)
and a little about Martensson herself
https://www.asg.org/files/hall/2006_Martensson.pdf
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