The Fashion Design Toolkit The Fashion Design Toolkit

The Fashion Design Toolkit

18 Patternmaking Techniques for Creative Practice

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Publisher Description

With The Fashion Design Toolkit you'll learn how tried-and-tested techniques like gathers, pleats, tucks, and twists can help you adapt patterns and create your own original garment designs. Tracy Jennings walks you through 18 patterning tactics to inspire fresh ideas, demonstrating how embracing pattern drafting skills can lead to innovative and effective collections.



Each technique is illustrated in a variety of contexts, showing how and why it has been used by other designers, so you can use the history of each tool as inspiration for your original collections. Ethical practice is woven throughout the book, with tips on how to implement techniques in an environmentally sustainable way.



The 18 essential techniques are divided into 5 categories:



Establishing Fit and Flare: Darts, Slash & Spread, Seaming, Insets

Channeling Fullness: Gathers, Ruffles, Pleats, Tucks

Fashioning the Fluid and Unstructured: Arcs, Flounces, Drapes, Twists

Engineering Fabric and Form: Contouring, Structure, Textile Designs

Focusing on Concepts: Adaptation, Reduction, Zero Waste



Online resources include a downloadable pattern block, which is available in US sizes 4–18.



www.bloomsburyonlineresources.com/fashion-design-toolkit

GENRE
Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2022
July 14
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
248
Pages
PUBLISHER
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
SELLER
Bookwire Gesellschaft zum Vertrieb digitaler Medien mbH
SIZE
92
MB