The Commercial Pattern Archive at the University of Rhode Island houses nearly 60,000 sewing patterns dating back to the 1840s. An online database of patterns is available for the public.

The 400-year-old pottery workshop as seen from above. Montreuil-sur-Mer, also known as Montreuil-on-the-Sea, is along the northern coast of France and a roughly 150-mile drive north from Paris.

Medieval pottery workshop — with pieces still in the oven — found in France. See it By Aspen Pflughoeft. ... The 400-year-old workshop had two kilns, or ovens for firing pottery.

A collection of pots sat in a brick oven in northern France, but these weren’t school art projects. These 400-year-old artifacts were buried several feet below the ground and forgotten — until now.