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This second volume of Fashion Patternmaking Techniques, guides readers through and examine the various procedures for transforming bodices, through dart manipulation as well as studying techniques for creating volumes, draping, and fitted patterns. The book includes techniques for creating patterns for knit fabrics; basic dress blocks and how to adapt these to different fabric patterns and types of garment (for example, maternity dresses); sleeves; basic blocks for men’s vests and jackets; size grading for tops and dresses and the fundamentals of pattern layout. This manual prepares the reader to apply these concepts—along with their own intuition and creativity—to constructing patterns.
“As the director of and a teacher at the Euromode School Italia in Bergamo, Antonio created this no-frills series as an almanac or a formula book on pattern drafting.&hellip Fashion Patternmaking Techniques is highly useful for certain segments of the sewist community. Fashion students, professors, industry professionals, advanced sewists, and people who are adept at math will get the most out of this book.” MadelinL in the Sewing Patternreview blog, 8/17/2016