Dress Pattern Designing: The Basic Principles of Cut and Fit

Bray, Natalie

ISBN 10: 025896944X / ISBN 13: 9780258969441

Published by HarperCollins Distribution Services, 1974

About this Item

A very good condition copy. Bright and clean, other than a stain to page edging. Inscription to inside cover. Age wear to the hard cover, and bumped corners, but no annotations. 1974, 132pp.

Seller Inventory # 895

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dress Pattern Designing: The Basic Principles of Cut and Fit
• Publisher: HarperCollins Distribution Services
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 025896944X
• ISBN 13: 9780258969441
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 4th Edition.
• Condition: 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.

Book Description

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 - the most popular of Natalie Bray's three works - covers the basic course and includes measurement and block patterns, circular patterns, simple pattern designing, yokes, dart manipulation, sleeves, collars and necklines, skirts, and the one-piece dress foundation.