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The Practical Guide to Patternmaking for Fashion Designers: Juniors, Misses, and Women

Lori Knowles
  • ©2005
  • 504 Pages
  • hardcover | spiral bound | 9 x 12
  • 978-1-56367-328-3
$52.00
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The Practical Guide to Patternmaking for Fashion Designers: Juniors, Misses, and Women offers an in-depth look into the techniques and theories of pattern drafting for women's garments. Covering a wide variety of styles, textiles, and sizes, this book is useful for a wide range of pattern courses from introductory to advanced. It provides a sound introduction to the concepts and the processes of patternmaking, as well as a more advanced analysis of style and design. The book offers helpful techniques on taking measurements and adjusting the fit of garments for all body sizes, patterns, and types of fabrics.
  • Measurement guide for men's sizes
  • Size charts and specification sheets
  • Photos and detailed illustrations accompanying step-by-step instructions
  • End-of-chapter questions, learning activities, and practice problems
  • Appendices including sloper set, metric conversion chart, fractions of inches to decimal point chart, French curve, sample pattern chart, and sample specification sheets
  • Introduction to Patternmaking
  • Taking Measurements, Body Forms, and Live Models
  • Drafting the Sloper Set
  • Draping the Sloper Set
  • Dart Manipulation for Bodices, Sleeves, and Skirts
  • Collar and Neckline Theory and Development
  • Sleeve Theory and Development
  • Dart Equivalents as Stylelines, Gathers, Pleats, and Release Tucks
  • Added Fullness/Flares and Added Ease
  • The Torso Sloper and Its Uses
  • The Jacket Sloper and Its Uses
  • The Coat Sloper and Its Uses
  • The Dartless Jean Sloper and Its Uses
  • Special Body Forms, Live Models, and Contoured Styles
  • Patterns for Fabric Used on the Bias Grainline
  • Patterns for Fabrics that Stretch
  • Patterns for Fabrics that Shrink
  • Linings
  • Knockoff Pattern Techniques
  • Production Pattern Techniques

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Lori Knowles has over 25 years of experience in the fashion industry as a patternmaker. Her experience includes assistant production management and production pattern making for Marian Clayden Inc. and Pacific Rim Manufacturing. Knowles is a former instructor at West Valley College in the Fashion Design and Apparel Technology Department. She is currently the owner of Lori Ann Design in Ferndale CA, and works as a freelance patternmaker with Left In Stitches, Castleware and many other companies. Her area of interest in research is the history and construction of clothing and she maintains a collection of vintage clothing from the 1840's to the 1940's.

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