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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 an

Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Darts 2. Slash and Spread 3. Seaming 4. Insets 5. Textile Designs 6. Gathers 7. Ruffles 8. Pleats 9. Tucks 10. Arcs 11. Flounces 12. Drapes 13. Twists 14. Contouring 15. Reduction 16. Adaptations 17. Structure 18. Zero Waste Edge Finishes Index

The Fashion Design Toolkit

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      Publisher Bloomsbury
      Imprint Bloomsbury Visual Arts
      Published 14 July 2022
      ISBN-13 9781350101562
      978-1350101562
      ISBN-10 1350101567
      Also in:
      Art & Photography Fashion and textile design Technology, Engineering & Agriculture Apparel and fashion: technology and techniques

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 an

      Table of Contents
      Introduction 1. Darts 2. Slash and Spread 3. Seaming 4. Insets 5. Textile Designs 6. Gathers 7. Ruffles 8. Pleats 9. Tucks 10. Arcs 11. Flounces 12. Drapes 13. Twists 14. Contouring 15. Reduction 16. Adaptations 17. Structure 18. Zero Waste Edge Finishes Index

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