How to Design Your Own Dress Patterns: A primer in pattern making for women who like to sew - Hardcover

Margolis, Adele

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1635610931 ISBN 13: 9781635610932

Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media, 2019

Synopsis

"Anyone who can work through the labyrinthian directions for sewing that accompany the commercial pattern can surely learn the comparatively simple and clear rules for pattern making,"  Adele P. Margolis, renowned sewing expert. 
Overflowing with useful information, this primer offers simple instructions for converting your own designs into working patterns. Written by Adele Margolis, a nationally-acclaimed expert in pattern making, tailoring and dressmaking, this must-have guide will take you step-by-step through darts, sleeves, necklines, closings and silhouettes. With Margolis’s guidance, you will quickly learn how to use this information to create your own custom-made patterns.
Applicable to every type of fashion, and featuring more than 1,000 illustrations – from skirts and dresses to sportswear and jackets – How to Design Your Own Dress Patterns will help you easily shape your fabric to your figure, creating fashionable necklines, mastering the art of flares, flounces, pleats and so much more.

About this title

About the Author

Adele P. Margolis was a nationally acclaimed sewing expert. She attended the Anne Burrows School of Design and received her art training at the Graphic Sketch Club and the Barnes Foundation. Mrs. Margolis was a dressmaker, tailor, and patternmaker, and taught all of these skills at her own shop and at adult education centers. She is the author of The Dressmaking Book, How to Make Clothes That Fit and Flatter, How to Design Your Own Dress Patterns, The Encyclopedia of Sewing, The Complete Book of Tailoring, and Fashion Sewing for Everyone.

From the Back Cover

"Anyone who can work through the labyrinthian directions for sewing that accompany the commercial pattern can surely learn the comparatively simple and clear rules for pattern making," Adele P. Margolis, renowned sewing expert. Overflowing with useful information, this primer offers simple instructions for converting your own designs into working patterns. Written by Adele Margolis, a nationally-acclaimed expert in pattern making, tailoring and dressmaking, this must-have guide will take you step-by-step through darts, sleeves, necklines, closings and silhouettes. With Margolis's guidance, you will quickly learn how to use this information to create your own custom-made patterns. Applicable to every type of fashion, and featuring more than 1,000 illustrations - from skirts and dresses to sportswear and jackets - How to Design Your Own Dress Patterns will help you easily shape your fabric to your figure, creating fashionable necklines, mastering the art of flares, flounces, pleats and so much more.

Edition details

• Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1635610931
• ISBN 13: 9781635610932
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 290