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More and more women are making their own clothes but there are few comprehensive references available. For the most part, dedicated sewers have had to adjust standardized patterns or muddle their way through foreign-language books.
In Practical Pattern Making two pattern-making experts and designers introduce the basic techniques of creative pattern design for clothing. It is intended to help fashion students, designers and enthusiastic sewers develop and create a variety of styles, regardless of complexity.
The book uses photographs, examples, diagrams and templates to explain all of the techniques, formulas and professional tricks to create a custom-tailored skirt, suit or dress. The tutorial style poses questions that encourage problem-solving.
Features include:
How to measure the body, with 13 illustrative photographs Blank professional worksheets to copy and use 40 scaled pattern templates with all markings How to draw and mark a sized pattern with darts, pleats and so on Modeling and draping to design and fit a pattern Working with fabric grain and bias Photos of garments in process and finished
The 40 garment selections begin with a basic skirt and progress from a fitted jacket and suit to an asymmetrical balloon dress, flounce dress, tissue dresses and more. All require just a few pattern pieces.
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Practical Pattern Making: A Step-by-step Guide
A comprehensive introduction to the basic techniques of pattern design for clothing
More and more people are making their own clothes but there are few comprehensive references available. In Practical Pattern Making two pattern-making experts and designers introduce the basic techniques of creative pattern design for clothing. It is intended to help fashion students, designers and enthusiastic sewers develop and create a variety of styles, regardless of complexity.
The book uses photographs, examples, diagrams and templates to explain all of the techniques, formulas and professional tricks to create a custom-tailored skirt, suit or dress. The tutorial style poses questions that encourage problem-solving.
Features include:
How to draw and mark a sized pattern with darts, pleats and so onHow to measure the body, with illustrative photographsBlank professional worksheets to copy and useWorking with fabric grain and biasStandardized measurements charts for European and American sizing40 scaled pattern templates with all markingsModeling and draping to design and fit a patternPhotos of garments in process and finished
The 40 garment selections begin with a basic skirt and progress from a fitted jacket and suit to an asymmetrical balloon dress, flounce dress, tissue dresses and more. All require just a few pattern pieces.
LUCIA MORS DE CASTRO has worked for Vivienne Westwood and several other fashion labels, designers and artists in London, Lima, Vienna and Berlin, where she currently teaches Pattern making/Draping at the International University of Art for Fashion. She is the author of Patternmaking in Fashion.
ISABEL SÁNCHEZ HERNÁNDEZ is a fashion designer and pattern maker. She has extensive teaching experience and has developed her own work method in which she mixes conventional and geometrical patternmaking techniques. She is the author of Little Black Dress.
Step by step photos walk you through the creation process
SLEEVELESS DRESS WITH FULL SKIRT
This dress is based on the basic dress pattern but with a symmetrical gathered upper part and a full skirt. A drawstring joins the front to the back piece and also functions as an adjustable strap. This design needs a fabric that hangs well.
4. The gathered folds indicate extra volume is added to the pattern piece so that the dress can be slipped off later with the help of a drawstring. For the extra amount, cut and open darts. Place the chest dart and the waist dart on the front piece at the chest point. Here, the waist dart can be moved to the upper edge of the cut. Cut a piece of the chest dart, add the waist dart and the amount needed can be found in the cut.
Next, make two cuts to the left and to the right of the chest dart to gain more volume, and gather it. To even off the corners, give a slight curve to the waistline and the neckline, which are the edges of the cut.
10. For help in drawing the large circular arc, use a metric tape or a piece of string.
DRESS WITH CAMELLIA SKIRT
This dress is classic and elegant with a silhouette that evokes Christian Dior’s “New Look” from the glamorous 1950s. It is cut at the waist and has a tight bodice with armhole darts. The top contrasts with the ample skirt volume that is created with three circles of fabric. To accentuate the silhouette, a rigid fabric is used that does not drape very much.
The hem of the dress is adorned with camellias, a flower with large pronounced petals. Though the camellia is usually used in wedding dresses, this example shows that it is the perfect adornment for a sensible cocktail dress.
1. Take the basic front pattern and extend the tips of the darts until they intersect at point B. From point B, draw a line to point A in the middle of the armhole and close the darts.
7. Now sew the skirt to the bodice. To do so, sew the semicircles to the front and back, and to each other.
Publisher : Firefly Books (October 8, 2015)
Language : English
Paperback : 240 pages
ISBN-10 : 1770856110
ISBN-13 : 978-1770856110
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 8.75 x 0.75 x 9.5 inches