Dress Pattern Designing: The Basic Principles of Cut and Fit

Bray, Natalie

ISBN 10: 0003833046 / ISBN 13: 9780003833041

Published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1986

About this Item

Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.

Seller Inventory # CHL10466309

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dress Pattern Designing: The Basic Principles of Cut and Fit
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0003833046
• ISBN 13: 9780003833041
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: Used; Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

This classic book, now in its fifth edition, on pattern cutting by a Paris–trained expert, teacher and examiner grows ever more popular as a basic book for students, professionals and enthusiatic amateurs. Over one hundred diagrams and forty plates are combined with clear and detailed instructions for making patterns, so that the practical application of the methods is demonstrted side by side with the theory and basic principles. This book covers the basic course which for many years has been the foundation of all training at the Katinka School of Dress Designing and includes measurement and block pattern designing, yokes, dart manipulation, sleeves, collars and necklines, skirts, and the one–piece dress foundation. This new edition also features a fashion supplement (by Ann Hagger) which offers directions illustrated with forty illuminating diagrams for such topics as shirt and jacket blocks for casual wear, shoulder pad allowances, cuff and sleeve openings, and halter necks.

About the Author

Natalie Bray trained in Paris while connected with a Court dressmaking business in London. The techniques she pioneered and perfected revolutionised dress pattern designing. Her teaching has had a profound influence on design, production and education. Ann Haggar, who wrote the Fashion Supplement, has many years’ experience both in industry and in education, and combines her writing with teaching at St Martin’s School of Art and with couture.