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This quintessential guide to patternmaking offers comprehensive coverage, clear illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions, providing users with all the relevant information necessary to create design patterns with accuracy regardless of their complexity. Covers the three steps in the development of design patterns—dart manipulation, added fullness, and contouring—with a central theme that all designs are based on one, or more of these three major patternmaking and design principles. Includes a fashion sketch for each project with an analysis of the design, and focuses on pattern plot and manipulation for developing the patterns. Illustrates several methods for knock-offs, and dedicates new sections on fitting corrections for the basic pattern set and the four pant foundation; menswear; patternmaking for bias-cut garments; revised drafting instructions and standard measurement charts; how to modify the bodice to fit the different sizes of bust cups; constructed support for strapless designs, and more. Presents additional and more challenging design projects for the advanced reader. For dressmakers, home sewers, manufacturing companies, and professionals in fashion design and fashion merchandising.

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This quintessential guide to patternmaking offers comprehensive coverage, clear illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions, providing users with all the relevant information necessary to create design patterns with accuracy regardless of their complexity. Covers the three steps in the development of design patterns—dart manipulation, added fullness, and contouring—with a central theme that all designs are based on one, or more of these three major patternmaking and design principles. Includes a fashion sketch for each project with an analysis of the design, and focuses on pattern plot and manipulation for developing the patterns. Illustrates several methods for knock-offs, and dedicates new sections on fitting corrections for the basic pattern set and the four pant foundation; menswear; patternmaking for bias-cut garments; revised drafting instructions and standard measurement charts; how to modify the bodice to fit the different sizes of bust cups; constructed support for strapless designs, and more. Presents additional and more challenging design projects for the advanced reader. For dressmakers, home sewers, manufacturing companies, and professionals in fashion design and fashion merchandising.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The BEST!!, May 12 2001

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This review is from: Patternmaking for Fashion Design (Hardcover)

This is such a great book!! I just took a class in flat pattern drafting and now that I know how to use the book, I feel like I can draft almost anything!!

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3.0 out of 5 stars VERY comprehensive but lacking in basic/beginner's details, Feb 6 2002

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This review is from: Patternmaking for Fashion Design (Hardcover)

This book is packed with dozens of different patterns, from different types of pants to different types of skirts. But I have two gripes with it.

My first problem is that some of the instructions seem like certain, important, key manuvers (i.e. how to blend the hip line into the waist line, from the slack pattern) are more inferred than they are explained. It feels like the author assumes that the reader knows to do this as opposed to that. Unfortunately, little things like that can result in the wrong fit. I wish the author could have explained the instructions more, like why this has to be done and why that won't work... I know this was created for the more experienced sewer but the format seems so much for the beginner.... It just felt a little misleading to see that each step is clearly organized only to find that in between steps there are un-noted, excluded instructions/reasons that are obviously very important to the final pattern.

My second problem is that alot of the styles seem very dated and downright dowdy. Yolks? I don't see many people wearing yolks these days, nor do I see them on ready-to-wear clothes in the stores. I probably have the 2nd edition but still, it wasn't written that long ago. But then again, as they say, to each their own.

I really wanted to give this book 5 stars for being the only comprehensive and somewhat up=to-date book on patternmaking available today but I felt that it could have been much better and less of a struggle for us less-experience sewers. So, if you've taken patternmaking classes before and are well-versed in dressmaking, this book would be great for you. As for the rest of us, this book is not as kind to the beginner.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Problems with the Third Edition, Mar 23 2001

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This review is from: Patternmaking for Fashion Design (Hardcover)

I am using the third edition of this book for my flat pattern drafting class. Despite good recommendations, my classmates and instructors all really dislike the book. I had a chance to compare it with the second edition, and I found out why we have had so many problems (e.g., exercises not working correctly, contradictory information in the text, missing information, etc.). It seems that when the third edition was created, a lot of essential instructions and information were taken out of the book. There are also innumerable editorial errors. As a reference text, this book is voluminous although not comprehensive. A lot of the information is presented with no explanation. There is a lot of conceptual information about pattern drafting that this book doesn't include, and overall, I don't recommend it as a book for teaching oneself how to draft patterns. If you do use it as a text, be prepared to be skeptical of the exercise directions, and remember to use a lot of common sense. Personally, I am now going to try to get a copy of the second edition, because I did really like it. The exercises were easy to follow (unlike the third edition), and the book does tell how to draft just about anything.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
This is a great book to learn how to make patterns and also a great reference if you already know how. Read more

Published on Feb 24 2004 by sparkgrrlx3

2.0 out of 5 stars [Knock off]
Okay, this book promises good stuff, but ... could it be any harder to understand? You basically need two books to interpret how to make a single pattern. Very vague. Read more

Published on Feb 14 2003 by Jennifer L. Lopez