The Dressmaker's Technique Bible

The Dressmaker's Technique Bible

Author: Lorna Knight

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780715329542

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Offers techniques for designing and making clothes, whether you are following a pattern, adding embellishements, or designing garments from scratch. This book includes illustrated instructions, which explain the essential dressmaking techniques. It is suitable for beginners, or those who are already designing or making their own clothes.


Dressmaking

Dressmaking

Author: Alison Smith

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-08-20

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 146540516X

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An invaluable resource, Dressmaking will guide you through all the stages of making, altering, and customizing clothes. Starting with the Tools and Materials, you will learn what you need to buy and how to use it. The Fabrics chapter demonstrates the drape and weave of fabrics and explains the best uses of each. The Patterns chapter covers everything from understanding a pattern to altering one. In General Techniques, close-up photography and guiding annotation to explain key techniques step by step. A section on Basic Patterns and Variations then guides you through creating six garments. Patterns and detailed step-by-step instructions are provided for a skirt, dress, shirt, tee, jacket, and pair of trousers. Instructions are also given for possible variations of each garment. Finally, chapters on Alterations and repairs and Customizing offer practical tips for repairing worn items and inspiration for modernizing tired pieces. Packed with essential advice and inspiration, this is the dressmaking bible that no budding seamstress should be without.


Clotilde's Sew Smart

Clotilde's Sew Smart

Author: Clotilde Lampe

Publisher: DRG Wholesale

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0974821705

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Whether you want to create a tailored jacket, sew a collar that lies flat, fashion a one-of-a-kind special-occasion outfit or learn the subtleties of working with faux leather, the information is in this book. You will also find detailed instructions based on Clotilde's years of experience and sewing expertise. It's like having Clotilde in your sewing room to answer your questions as you plan and create each new clothing project.


The Dressmaking Book

The Dressmaking Book

Author: Alison Smith

Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)

Published: 2021-02-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780241459737

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Choose the perfect fabrics for any project, try your hand at a range of machine-sewing techniques, and put your new-found knowledge to use with 13 downloadable patterns that can be adapted to create more than 30 stylish garments. With step-by-step guides and patterns to make classic dresses, skirts, tops, trousers, and jackets, alongside ideas for refreshing and reinventing your old clothes


Knitting Without Tears

Knitting Without Tears

Author: Elizabeth Zimmerman

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1973-07

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 0684135051

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The author guides the novice and the experienced knitters in short-cuts and construction tricks and offers twenty original designs.


Plant Lady Embroidery

Plant Lady Embroidery

Author: Applemints

Publisher: Quarry Books

Published: 2020-04-28

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 1631598457

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Brimming with over 300 botanical motifs, this wonderful resource will provide inspiration and instructions for embroidery artists and flower ladies everywhere. This collection features designs including flowers, ferns, succulents, leaves, bees and garden scenes. The books includes basic embroidery instruction for stitches and transferring designs onto fabric. Original designs and clear instructions make this book a must have for any embroidery enthusiast's library.


Dressmaking to Flatter Your Shape

Dressmaking to Flatter Your Shape

Author: Lorna Knight

Publisher: A&C Black Visual Arts

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 9781408170885

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Making well-fitting clothes is a challenge for many dressmakers, but especially so for those of us with a curvy shape or a plus-size. This book shows you how to take a standard commercial pattern in a larger size, make some smart adjustments, and end up with clothes that will give you a great, flattering fit. Dressmaking to Flatter Your Shape includes detailed information on selecting fabrics and choosing styles to fit your shape. It explains how to get a perfect fit out of any sewing pattern, with troubleshooting techniques to cover tricky points such as shoulders, necklines, sleeves, hips and waists. Using this book you will also pick up tips on how to personalise a pattern to your own style, by changing the collar or cuffs of a top, or even by drafting your very own skirt pattern from scratch!


Couture Techniques

Couture Techniques

Author: Fox Chapel Publishing

Publisher: Design Originals

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 9781565235342

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"llustrated Guide to Sewing: Couture Techniques" guides readers through the characteristics that separate basic sewing from couture such as a custom fit, meticulous handwork, and quality construction. Starting with an overview on important topics such as working with fine fabrics, custom fitting garments, and hand stitching, readers will go on to learn how to create one-of-a-kind fashions that have shape, strength, and beauty with close-up chapters on creating couture collars, necklines, sleeves, and more