Description Pattern Design: Fundamentals is for beginners to the field of Fashion Design as well as self-guided learners.
Pattern Design: Fundamentals is the first book in this Pattern Making series of books..
The book is an ideal guide for self-learners or for classroom instruction.
Pattern Design: Fundamentals covers the material that most Fashion Design students learn in their first year of schooling.
The forth and final section covers "Finishes." Finishes include facings, zipper insertion and basic hemming.
The banding chapter covers simple waistbands and sleeve cuffs.
Extensions for buttons and placket for blouses are also demonstrated.
Pocket exercises include patch pockets, in-seam pockets and inset pockets.
The third section, "Details," includes beginner Design detail concepts such as pockets, extensions, collars and banding.
Section two, "Line," covers style lines (also called seam lines) and combines style lines with Design elements from the "Shape" section.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pattern Design was developed by designer and educator Jennifer Lynne Matthews-Fairbanks.
Understanding the construction, solidifies one\'s drafting knowledge, connecting the dots of two-dimensional drafting to the three-dimensional finished garment.
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.
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.
Description Pattern Design: Fundamentals is for beginners to the field of Fashion Design as well as self-guided learners
