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How patterns work : the fundamental principles of pattern making and sewing in fashion design.

Contributor(s): Assembil [publisher.].
Material type: TextTextPublisher: [London] : Assembil Books, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: xii, 500 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.Content type: still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1481959093 (paperback); 9781481959094 (paperback).Subject(s): Patternmaking | Clothing and dress -- Pattern design | Garment cutting | Dressmaking -- Pattern design | Tailoring -- Pattern design | Fashion designDDC classification: 646.4
Contents:
The basics -- Professional systems: from design sketch to finished sample -- communicating design ideas -- Key body guidelines -- Understanding darts -- Darts and the body: skirt and bodice exercises -- Basic blocks -- Truing, blending and flow through -- Blocks and patterns -- Seams and seam allowance -- The importance of accuracy -- Making seam allowance and notches -- Notches and drillholes -- The anatomy of a pattern -- Grain lines -- Pattern information and cut instructions -- Basic aims of pattern making -- Pattern making methods -- Pattern alterations and seam allowance -- Introduction to pattern examples -- Adding a seam line: cut and spread method -- Adding a seam line: pivot method -- Adding a seam line -- drape example -- Removing a seam lin: cut and spread method -- Removing a seam line: pivot method -- Removing a seam line: drape example -- Moving dart value: cut and spread method -- Moving dar value: pivot method -- Moving dart value: drape example -- Darts into seam lines: cut and spread method -- Darts into seam lines: pivot method -- Darts into seam lines: drape example -- Seam lins into darts: cut and spread method -- Seam lines into darts: pivot method -- Increasing and decreasing volume -- Even increase of volume: cut and spread method -- Even increase of volume: pivot method -- Even increase of volume: drape example -- Even decrease of volume: cut and spread method -- Even decrease of volume: pivot method -- Even drcrease of volume: drape example -- Increase volume around a point: cut and spread method -- Increase volume around a point: pivot method -- Increase volume around a point: drape example -- Decrease volume around a point: cut and spread method -- Decrease volume around a point: pivot method -- Decrease volume around a point: drape example -- Volumd increase with darts: cut and spread method -- Volume increase with darts: pivot method -- Volume increase with darts; drape example -- Ease and fabric roll -- Applying pattern principles to complex change.
Summary: Summary: "The perfect introduction to the core principles of garment construction, "How Patterns Work" simplifies and explains the relationship between pattern making and the body." -- Back cover.
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The basics -- Professional systems: from design sketch to finished sample -- communicating design ideas -- Key body guidelines -- Understanding darts -- Darts and the body: skirt and bodice exercises -- Basic blocks -- Truing, blending and flow through -- Blocks and patterns -- Seams and seam allowance -- The importance of accuracy -- Making seam allowance and notches -- Notches and drillholes -- The anatomy of a pattern -- Grain lines -- Pattern information and cut instructions -- Basic aims of pattern making -- Pattern making methods -- Pattern alterations and seam allowance -- Introduction to pattern examples -- Adding a seam line: cut and spread method -- Adding a seam line: pivot method -- Adding a seam line -- drape example -- Removing a seam lin: cut and spread method -- Removing a seam line: pivot method -- Removing a seam line: drape example -- Moving dart value: cut and spread method -- Moving dar value: pivot method -- Moving dart value: drape example -- Darts into seam lines: cut and spread method -- Darts into seam lines: pivot method -- Darts into seam lines: drape example -- Seam lins into darts: cut and spread method -- Seam lines into darts: pivot method -- Increasing and decreasing volume -- Even increase of volume: cut and spread method -- Even increase of volume: pivot method -- Even increase of volume: drape example -- Even decrease of volume: cut and spread method -- Even decrease of volume: pivot method -- Even drcrease of volume: drape example -- Increase volume around a point: cut and spread method -- Increase volume around a point: pivot method -- Increase volume around a point: drape example -- Decrease volume around a point: cut and spread method -- Decrease volume around a point: pivot method -- Decrease volume around a point: drape example -- Volumd increase with darts: cut and spread method -- Volume increase with darts: pivot method -- Volume increase with darts; drape example -- Ease and fabric roll -- Applying pattern principles to complex change.

Summary: "The perfect introduction to the core principles of garment construction, "How Patterns Work" simplifies and explains the relationship between pattern making and the body." -- Back cover.