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Oh that's right - you can't! Burda has decided, in their infinite lack of wisdom, to eliminate the online previews, archives, and just about everything else about their patterns. I understand that you can still see them, in Russian, but no luck for anyone who doesn't have command of the Cyrillic font and Russian language.
Adding insult to injury, Burda has cut the number of pattern sheets from two per issue to one. Take a look at the sheet on which the three pieces for top 112 are printed:
Find the top.
I've always had a tenuous relationship with Burda. I'm lazy and I'm the first to admit it. I don't like tracing, and I don't like adding seam allowances. I do like Burda's styles and their drafting. But they are making it really hard for me to love them the way I should. I want to recommend their patterns, but...
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Wow, I'm glad I buy the issues separately. I have to say, Burda's August and September issues do not thrill me.
However, I do know Russian, so here's the link to the archive: http://www.burdafashion.com/ru/index/1270777-1463237.html
To the current August issue: http://www.burdafashion.com/ru/index/1270777-1000019.html
From the main site (http://www.burdafashion.com/ru/index.html) you can see the September and BurdaPlus Fall previews. Also, in the gray tabs on top, the second from the left (next to News & Trends) is the one for the magazine.
Ann, ditto everything you said about Burda especially the tracing puzzle!
Karen
ROTFLOL! Okay I know I shouldn't be laughing but this just emphasizes my reasons of why I think of Burda as a fashion magazines with some patterns in it!
Ann, the "pattern" looks like the sky constellations!! :o
Warm greetings,
Rhonda, who's never tried the big B
Interesting. I'll bet good money that 5 years from now pattern sheets bound into the magazine will be a thing of the past. Burda will still publish the magzines, but without patterns & instructions. Readers will need to download those from the web site.
I agree! I just posted a rant about Burda myself earlier this afternoon.
It kind of makes you wonder what is going on doesn't it? Is there a grown up in charge anymore? Who is running the English language operation? Is it now the play-thing of someone's dippy niece?
As much as I would love to try a Burda mag pattern...life is too short and that looks like far too much detail. It would, however, make interesting fabric.
I've been one of Burda's biggest fans! I am so angry. I received the August issue, but I didn't pull out the pattern sheet and look at it. And guess what else. The Fall Burda Plus Fashion reruns three recent collections of past issues!!! Same photos and everything!!! It is extremely hard for me to love Burda right now.
Yikes!!! I didn't look at the pattern sheets either! I'm less and less inclined to trace off these patterns . . . I mean, some of them are awfully nice, but life's too darned short to deal with the eye-crossing complexity of trying to figure out which line I need to trace! I'll probably NOT renew my subscription when it expires. Just can't deal with the stress!!
I'm another person who's extremely irritated at Burda's recent extremely inane decisions about its product and how it communicates on the www. What universe do they think they live in, that they can just turn off the majority of their English language content FOR MONTHS??
It's taken me 1 year to get my local newsagents to stock this magazine and August is the first issue I have received. I used the mag and patterns years ago and was so looking forward to getting it, but boy am I cross - what a complete disaster! I'm sure it will go the way Vogue Patterns did, a preview of new and old patterns to be purchased at the shops... Someone pass the specs!
Wow -- Looks like Pollock married Picasso and spawned a pattern drafter.
So much for Burda doing business anywhere other than the Russian-speaking countries.
It will be interesting to see if they do the same thing with their knitting patterns
DSis
Hi, thanks for your great blog!!
I've just found (again) the addresss for the German-language Burda web pages. Ah, you say, I don't read German just like I don't read Russian. (me too.)
Do this:
(1) Here is the address for the August Burda Style magazine:
http://www.burdastyle.de/magazine/burda-style/08-2010_bsmid_142.html
Highlight and copy that address.
(2) Go to Google's main page, select the tiny little blue word at the top of the page:
more
and then select
translate
Paste in that web address. You might need to specify that you want to translate from German to English. And Eureka, there is the web page in English!
I agree that we customers should not have to do all this work, but better than withdrawal symptoms...
Here is the web address for preview of September Burda Mode magazine:
http://www.burdastyle.de/trends/news/burda-style-09-2010-erste-vorschau-aufs-september-heft_aid_3062.html
Mind you, as of 08/17/10, this address still shows a preview, so there are photos but not yet any technical drawings (TECHNISCHE ZEICHNUNGEN). Click on the arrowheads on the right side of the frame to step through the photos.
Here is the web address for the German-language version of the Fall/Winter Plus magazine, which is close to complete:
http://www.burdastyle.de/magazine/burda-plus/herbst-winter-2010_bsmid_116.html
About the declining quality of the magazine itself -- I agree.
However, I rely a LOT on the technical illustrations, which show that really, there are no more than a few dozen basic patterns that are constantly recycled and slightly modified. The magazine itself is best for inspiration, and I can get that just fine from the Web archives or on-line photos. With a little digging into my (blush) 15 year stash of Burda magazines, I can almost always find a corresponding pattern.
Cheers!
I could make 3 pieces before I could trace one piece off of the Burder pattern sheets! I am like you Ann, I'm way too lazy! I somtimes use colorful langauge when I sew. Tracing Burda patterns would send my mouth right to the bar of soap for sure! ~Valerie
"Wow -- Looks like Pollock married Picasso and spawned a pattern drafter."
hilarious!
sigh. I didn't know about this excessive layering of patterns until I read your post. I will not be renewing my subscription. They seem to be giving us the heave-ho.
Asve I read about the bloggers who were recently invited to sew projects for an upcoming book, that struck me as a sign of things to come. {I am speculating that} Burda is looking to capture the younger, hipper, popular internet seamstresses, and their readers along with them. Well, OK, Peter isn't young, per se, but he is hip and popular ;)
whatever! I am sad to see such a wonderful resource shrivel up.
Maybe in time, Burda will rise from the ashes to rule again.
Gack! This is terrible. Now I'm glad I let my subscription laps. I barely got the 2-sheet patterns traced. I know I would never bother with this spaghetti mess.
Oh well, maybe Burda doesn't really care about their English language contingent any more. Certainly seems to be the case.
I just recently purchased a Burda Magazine after a year without my subscription. I was not impressed or enthused with the new pattern layout. I have decided that will probably be my last magazine purchase. I will purchase from another pattern company and pass on the frustration. I don't like the tracing either, wastes my sewing time :)
I received my renewal notice about a week before the August issue (which finally showed up yesterday). They've raised the price to $90!!! I won't be renewing.
I did not renew this year. I wouldn't mind the ever-increasing cost but there are fewer and fewer patterns that start in my size so I am paying a bunch of money so that I can grade patterns. Seeing the new pattern sheet makes me extra happy with my decision - what a road map!
I'm strongly leaning towards not renewing--I've been generally unimpressed with the last several issues. And that top you mentioned was the ONLY thing I liked this month. I've got until March, but if they don't step up their game, I'm done. They keep releasing their patterns later on BurdaStyle anyway, and the print-and-tape method might end up being a heck of a lot simpler than trying to decipher that pattern sheet! (Which I didn't even look at this month, because I was so unimpressed with the patterns. Yikes.)
I had the subscription for 6 mos, decided I am too lazy to trace and gave it up. I would never trace the maze you showed. I have limited time to sew as it is, and would be more frustrated than I already get.
I so dislike print and tape. I dislike even more trying to decipher Burda's road map. Just too much. I am glad I let my subscription go a few months back.
I just went through that same rant a couple of days ago.
Wow. Are you shi**ing me? That is ridiculous, and I am now super-duper-uber mad.
1. I still haven't gotten this issue.
2. 1 sheet of pattern paper???
3. I renewed for what reason?!?!
Can we organise an emailing campaign - a standard letter sent by every blogger who uses BWOF threatening to cancel subs or discontinue purchasing from the newsstands should do the trick. We need an organiser!
I just renewed, after thinking about it hard. I haven't made anything from it, but then my sewing output other than repairs has been zilch this year. I noticed the change in the pattern sheet a while back, but for me, it's the patterns that have been disapointing lately. It seems like I heard more praise for the Burda patterns when I first started reading forums and blogs a few years ago. Lately comments have been more like WTF?!?!?! As far as the future direction of Burda, I'd rather trace than tape sheets together.
Ann, I too am displease with Burda eliminating the online previews etc. I had being keeping an archives on my computer, making it easy for me to look for a style and not going crazy looking at all the magazines. Now, I either go to the French or the Italian site. I hope they dont eliminate this as well.
fwiw, i have never had success with the burda patterns and gave up on them altogether about 4 years ago after several wadders.
however, i do know that you can buy some of their patterns online either through the Burda Style website or through SewingPatterns.com.
sure, both sources are a couple months behind the latest issue, but eventually they all do show up i think. (never checked for completeness but at least most of them seem to be there)
I have done similar rants. I love Burda. I hate how they have been treating their English speaking customers. BTW, you can get the French edition online where at least you can read the alphabet! It is definitely harder to trace the patterns these days. Almost impossible in complicated patterns. i too wonder if they don't want to do the patterns in the magazine. I certainly am not willing to pay 5 or 6 dollars for something I have to print out and tape together.
Thanks for the notice about the patterns. This gives another excuse to cut my dependency and seek addiction to another European pattern magazine!
This.
"However, I rely a LOT on the technical illustrations, which show that really, there are no more than a few dozen basic patterns that are constantly recycled and slightly modified."
My archived issues have suddenly become more valuable!
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