The Compendium of Pattern Making - A Guide for the Dressmaker and Tailor

Author: Various
Publisher: Whitehead Press
ISBN: 9781447413264
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 394

Book Description
This compendium contains a wealth of information about pattern design and cutting that will prove of much interest to today's sewing enthusiast. Extensively illustrated with black and white drawings and diagrams. Contents Include: Pattern Designing - Designing with Foundation Patterns; Progressive Pattern Making and Cutting Out for Needlework; Your Pattern Cutting; Pattern Making for Dressmaking and Needlework. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.

Pattern Drafting and Foundation and Flat Pattern Design - A Dressmaker's Guide

Author: Ida Riley Duncan
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 147338303X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 101

Book Description
A detailed guide to dressmaking, being a handbook of pattern drafting and design. Extensively illustrated with simple, useful diagrams and step-by-step instructions, this volume is ideal for those with little previous experience, and would make for a fantastic addition to the bookshelf of today's tailor and dressmaker. Contents include: “Pattern Drafting”, “Tools Necessary for Pattern Making”, “Chart of Measurements”, “Basic Pattern for Waist from Given Measurements”, “Construction of Pattern”, “Formula for Back of Plain Waist”, “Draft of Front of Waist from Chart Given”, “Measurements”, “Formula for Front of Plain Waist”, etc. Many vintage dressmaking books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on dressmaking and tailoring.

Dressmaking

Author: Alison Smith
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 146540516X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
An invaluable resource, Dressmaking will guide you through all the stages of making, altering, and customizing clothes. Starting with the Tools and Materials, you will learn what you need to buy and how to use it. The Fabrics chapter demonstrates the drape and weave of fabrics and explains the best uses of each. The Patterns chapter covers everything from understanding a pattern to altering one. In General Techniques, close-up photography and guiding annotation to explain key techniques step by step. A section on Basic Patterns and Variations then guides you through creating six garments. Patterns and detailed step-by-step instructions are provided for a skirt, dress, shirt, tee, jacket, and pair of trousers. Instructions are also given for possible variations of each garment. Finally, chapters on Alterations and repairs and Customizing offer practical tips for repairing worn items and inspiration for modernizing tired pieces. Packed with essential advice and inspiration, this is the dressmaking bible that no budding seamstress should be without.

The Compendium of Pattern Making - A Guide for the Dressmaker

Author: Various
Publisher: Wilding Press
ISBN: 9781447413257
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description
This compendium contains a wealth of information and practical hints on making patterns that will prove to be of great interest to today's dressmaker. Extensively illustrated with black and white diagrams and drawings. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.

Gentlemen's Garment Cutting and Tailoring - The Dressmaker's Guide

Author: Various
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 144748309X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 253

Book Description
This book contains a vintage guide to making clothes for men, with information on tools, materials, different styles, fitting, cutting, and much more. With step-by-step instructions and helpful illustrations, this volume is ideal for the novice tailor, and would make for a worthy addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: “Trouser Cutting”, “Corpulent Draft. Diagram 2”, “Style Details and Top Finishes”, “Riding Breeches, “Cutting of Overgarments”, “Cutting for Corpulent Figures”, “Variations from Normal Draft”, “Motor Liveries”, “How to Make Trousers”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on dressmaking and tailoring.

Dress Making - Drafting and Pattern Making

Author: Jane Fales
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1446549755
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 56

Book Description
This vintage book contains an introductory guide to tailoring, including complete directions for drafting and pattern-making. With step-by-step instructions and many helpful tips, this volume is designed to introduce the beginner to dressmaking, and aims to walk the novice through the creation of a few simple items. Contents include: “Dressmaking and Tailoring”, “Drafting and Pattern-Making”, “Shirt-Waist”, “Shirt-Waist Sleeve”, “Foundation Skirt”, “Tight-Fitting Waist and Collar”, “Tight-fitting Sleeve”, and “Kimono Waist”. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on dressmaking and tailoring.

The Dressmaking Book

Author: Adele Margolis
Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media
ISBN: 9781635610888
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314

Book Description
In this essential primer, renowned sewing expert Adele P. Margolis offers step-by-step instructions for creating your own garments. Featuring over 200 how-to line drawings, this guide covers the fundamentals of dressmaking and fashion, including how to select patterns and materials, alter designs, and hand-stitching and sewing machine basics.

The Dressmaking Book

Author: Alison Smith
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
ISBN: 0241523370
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
Tailor-make your wardrobe with this essential dressmaking e-guide. Discover everything you need to know to design, create, and customize your clothes. Guiding you through every stage of clothes-making in a clear, easy-to-understand way, The Dressmaking Book contains everything you need to make timeless wardrobe staples that can be easily adapted to suit your style. Choose the perfect fabrics for any project, try your hand at a range of machine-sewing techniques, and put your new-found knowledge to use with 13 downloadable patterns that can be adapted to create more than 30 stylish garments. With step-by-step guides and patterns to make classic dresses, skirts, tops, trousers, and jackets, alongside ideas for refreshing and reinventing your old clothes, The Dressmaking Book has everything you need to ditch fast fashion and create stunning, original clothes to suit your style.

New Complete Guide to Sewing

Author:
Publisher: Readers Digest
ISBN: 0762104201
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 414

Book Description
Provides general instructions for fitting, constructing, tailoring, and finishing women's, men's, and children's clothing and for making curtains and bedcoverings.

How to Make Sewing Patterns, Second Edition

Author: Don McCunn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780932538215
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 182

Book Description
How to Make Sewing Patterns solves the mysteries of pattern drafting with easy, step-by-step instructions and clear line drawings that show how to create custom-fit garments in a wide range of designs. The book s detailed instructions on measuring and fitting include do-it-yourself photographs as well as directions for creating custom dress forms. Don McCunn has certainly mastered pattern drafting and fitting a wide range of bodies. Whether or not you have taken pattern drafting in a class, this book is a good reference in a very readable style. I especially liked the exacting instructions on taking measurements on the body and the solution for side seams which are not perpendicular to the floor. --Sandra Betzina, the power behind power sewing. Author of 10 books, a syndicated column for 37 years, and a host of her own show on HGTV for 6 years. Beyond the impressive range of material in How to Make Sewing Patterns is the author's obvious concern that readers understand what they are doing and why. There are many helpful tips throughout the book, some quite clever and unexpected. The section on drafting a sloper contains excellent explanations of the various body contours, measuring, and fitting. Text, drawings, and photos of the human body from every angle illustrate the various interrelated contours and just how a pattern accommodates them. He even gives detailed instructions on how to measure and fit yourself. --Threads Magazine McCunn's book dispels the mysteries of pattern drafting, an area which was once the province of the couturier. A do-it-yourself text in which lessons build upon one another, this book provides detailed guides to creating patterns. --Library Journal The most readable pattern drafting book I've found. The drawings are the simplest line drawings possible but executed with concise purpose. --Whole Earth Catalog Donald McCunn leads the beginning seamstress or the advanced into pattern drafting via a thorough introduction. He shows that drafting is easy if each step is clearly related to the final outcome and if the drafter visualizes what he or she is doing. --Christian Science Monitor"