Before this tool, a quilter cut every patchwork piece by hand from a paper or card template, working around dressmaking shears built for long runs through garment fabric, not for small repeated shapes. OLFA, the Japanese blade company already known for its snap-off utility knife, introduced the first rotary cutter in 1979 for cutting garment fabric; quilters adopted it almost immediately, and paired with the strip-piecing techniques it made practical, it revolutionized how patchwork quilts are pieced.
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Milestone Year When1979: OLFA introduced the rotary cutter for garment cutting; quilters were quick adopters. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Rotary Cutter (Wikipedia)
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The first rotary cutter was introduced by the OLFA company in 1979 for garment making, however, it was quickly adopted by quilters.
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