Dress Pattern Designing (4th Edition metric)

Bray, Natalie

Granada Publishing

Dress Pattern Designing: The Basic Principles of Cut and Fit

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Sheridan House Inc

The techniques Natalie Bray pioneered and perfected revolutionised dress pattern designing, assisting the rise of the modern fashion industry. Her teaching has had a profound influence on design, production and education and her works are classics: fashions change but the principles of designing patterns in the flat do not. This book covers advanced cutting, lingerie, tailoring and children's clothes. It expands the basic course set out in Natalie Bray's Dress Pattern Designing and shows the application of the basic principles and methods to more advanced styles as well as to specialised cutting.

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Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

HarperCollins Distribution Services

Dress Fitting: Basic Principles and Practice

Grafton Books

Dress fitting: Basic principles and practice;

Lockwood

Crosby Lockwood

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.

Dress pattern designing: The basic principles of cut and fit

Crosby Lockwood Staples

Natalie Bray, in the same clear style that has helped many readers of Dress Pattern Designing and More Dress Pattern Designing analyses the problems of fitting which so often cause difficulties to both students and dressmakers. To be able to understand what is happening when observing a defect is already to have an idea of how to correct it. Here problems of figure, posture and of pattern adjustment are clearly explained so that the dressmaker can, with the confidence that comes with practical experience, learn to identify a defect and choose the best method of dealing with it.

Dress Fitting

Business & Money

Industries

Wiley/Blackwell

This further volume in Natalie Bray's classic series expands the basic course, showing the application of basic principles and methods to more advanced styles and specialized cutting. Covering lingerie, tailoring and children's patterns it now also includes a fashion supplement (by Ann Haggar) dealing with the grading and cutting of new shapes.

More Dress Pattern Designing, Fourth Edition

Haggar, Ann

The techniques Natalie Bray pioneered and perfected revolutionised dress pattern designing, assisting the rise of the modern fashion industry. Her teaching has had a profound influence on design, production and education and her works are classics: fashions change but the principles of designing patterns in the flat do not. 
To be able to understand what is happening when observing a defect is already to have an idea of how to correct it. Here problems of figure, posture and of pattern adjustment are clearly explained so that the dressmaker can, with the confidence that comes with practical experience, learn to identify a defect and choose the best method of dealing with it.

Blackwell Pub.

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