 The process that the Buttericks eventually settled on called for the corrected, graded master patterns to be made into thin cardboard templates.These were placed on a stack of tissue paper and cut around with a sharp knife; after all the pieces of each pattern were cut out, the tissue paper pieces were sorted, folded together and labeled with an image of the garment and brief instructions.Butterick offered precut patterns of this type until the late 1940s, when they began to produce uncut, printed patterns (as sold today).