The Essential Guide to Pattern Making, 9781800922723
Paperback
Design clothes confidently! Your ultimate guide to pattern making mastery.

The Essential Guide to Pattern Making

All You Need to Know About Designing, Adapting and Customizing Sewing Patterns

$31.99

  • Paperback

    192 pages

  • Release Date

    31 January 2024

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Summary

The Essential Guide to Pattern Making is an extensive and clear guide for all who wish to become confident in designing and making their own patterns.

This handy book will become any dress-maker’s pattern-designing bible: with accessible break-downs on seams and darts, the order of make for any garment, how to consider your measurements from scratch, and developing your patterns with the inclusion of pockets, pleats, cuffs, and fastenings.

This comprehensive guide features lot…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781800922723
ISBN-10:1800922728
Author:Jo Barnfield, Andrew Richards
Publisher:Search Press Ltd
Imprint:Search Press Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:31 January 2024
Weight:746g
Dimensions:19mm x 246mm x 192mm
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Critics Review

This is an extensive and clear guide for all who wish to become confident in designing and making their own patterns. This guide will make pattern making less scary.

– Simply Sewing * Issue 118 *

About The Author

Jo Barnfield

Jo Barnfield is a technical illustrator and professional designer and constructionist. Jo has worked in higher education for many years, and shared her expertise as a Lecturer in Fashion Design at Bath Spa University before teaching in her current role at the University of the West of England. Jo has worked for Jasmine Di Milo, Neurotica, and HFH clothing, and has co-authored two books: The Pattern Cutting Primer and The Vintage Pattern Selector (2012).

Andrew Richards is a Senior Technical Demonstrator for Bath Spa’s undergraduate Fashion Design programme. Andrew has previously worked as a designer for Valentino, and studied their MA at the Royal College of Art.

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