Product Description
This easy to understand text provides illustrated lessons that demonstrate the various
patternmaking methods and how they are used to develop design variations. Each of the
Second Edition s four units address one major segment of a garment the bodice, the
collar, the skirt, and the sleeve with a series of pictorial examples that progress from
the most basic dart manipulations to advanced design variations. Students will master
the slash and pivot meth… More >>
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Rating: 2 / 5
Loads of info on tops and skirts but not a thing on pants. Crazy man… Crazy!
Rating: 4 / 5
I encountered this book at the beginning of trying to teach myself clothing design, and found it immediately illuminating.
The book is divided into four sections: Bodice, Collar, Skirt, Sleeve. Using a series of pictorial examples, you are shown how to progress from the basic pattern through many, many variations, using dart movement and seams. Each example takes up a full page, with the minimum text needed and lots of illustrations. (Each example is given a punny name, such as “Seams to Me” or “Absence makes the Dart…Grow Yonder”.)
The book starts with a section on the Bodice, covering close-fitting, loose-fitting, and flared versions. The Bodice section starts with a basic pattern, showing how a simple piece of fabric drapes across a bust form, and then showing the flat pattern version of the same thing. A series of examples then show you many ways to modify the basic pattern by moving darts, combining darts with seams, gathering excess fabric, and slashing and spreading the pattern. Each technique is shown by multiple examples, starting with the simplest changes and progressing to complex ones.
If you like learning by example, the detailed drawings in this book will make it very easy for you to learn flat pattern clothing design.
Rating: 4 / 5