The legacy sewing pattern brands Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue, commonly referred to as the Big 4, have been sold to a liquidator. The brands were owned by IG Design Group, a leading manufacturer and distributor of stationery products based in the UK. On Friday, the company announced it had sold its US division, IG Design Group Americas, which owns the sewing pattern brands, to Hilco Capital, a liquidation firm. IG Design Group cited the impact of tariffs imposed by the US as a factor. …The future of the Big 4 legacy pattern companies is now very uncertain as they own the last pattern tissue printers in the country, and that is significant to all the other pattern companies that rely upon it. …This could be a death knell for most printed sewing patterns like as there will no longer be a printer capable of producing large-scale tissue sheets.