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Pocket exercises includ.
Each chapter details the basics of Construction in order to complete each exercise fully and utilizes several different slopers to show how each concept can be translated to different garment types.
Section two, Line, covers style lines (also called seam lines) and combines style lines with Design elements from the Shape section.
The third section, Details, includes beginner Design detail concepts such as pockets, extensions, collars and banding.
You will create a simple Pattern with all appropriate markings from an unaltered sloper and learn each part of all slopers used throughout the book.
In the first section, Shape, Pattern Design walks you through manipulating darts with the pivot and slash and spread methods, creating pleats, tucks and gathers.
Fairbanks years of instructing at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising coupled with her years running her own Design and sewing studio, make for the ideal combination of teaching to the visual and self-guided learner.
Chapters 1 and 2 introduce you to the tools, terms and Pattern markings, including fabrics used, grainlines of patterns and the grain of a fabric.
Understanding the construction, solidifies one\'s drafting knowledge, connecting the dots of two-dimensional drafting to the three-dimensional finished garment.
Pattern Design was developed by designer and educator Jennifer Lynne Matthews-Fairbanks.
This topic will be discussed in the Sloper book.
The best way to understand how patterns are drafted is to understand how the drafts are constructed, why certain Pattern markings are used and in what order a Pattern should be constructed.
Draft-by-measure is an intermediate topic and it is best to understand how to manipulate patterns before trying to draft using personal measurements.
Please note that this book does not include draft-by-measure.
This drafting book combines knowledge of drafting with sewing and construction.
This book is different than all other drafting books of its kind.
Pattern Design: Fundamentals covers the basics of Pattern making, terminology and drafting concepts.
The paperback published by Createspace has black and white interior images, while the books published by Los Angeles Fashion Resource and Fairbanks publishing contain color images inside the bookPattern Design: Fundamentals is an ideal book for beginners to the field of Fashion Design as well as self-guided learners.
Note that there are different versions of this book available
