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Language: English
Published by New Holland Pub Ltd, 1999
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- Title
- The Dressmaker's Handbook: A Complete Guide To Techniques And Materials
- Author
- Rene Bergh
- Publisher
- New Holland Pub Ltd
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1853687103
- ISBN 13
- 9781853687105
- Item weight
- 2.11 pounds
An invaluable reference for anyone interested in sewing clothes! This fully illustrated, comprehensive guide offers practical, expert instructions for all necessary techniques, including laying and cutting out patterns, pressing, and making darts, tucks, pleats, hems, plackets, buttonholes, collars, yokes, and pockets. Advice on choosing patterns and fabrics, as well as simple guidelines and foolproof shortcuts for making individual pieces such as blouses, dresses, jackets, skirts, and trousers, will enable any sewer to produce professional-looking garments every time. 160 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 11.
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Reviews
Why do professional seamsters assume, for example, that inserting zippers is an easily mastered skill? Or that with a few lessons, most of us can emulate the wizardry of a Donna Karan? Bergh breezes through all facets of sewing women's apparel, showing couture association and assuming no sewing-challenged reader exists. For sure, the instructions for each finish, part, and technique are immaculate, enhanced by simple narrative and plenty of hand-drawn illustrations. Most of the variations for, say, hems are well documented (albeit in British English). No actual patterns are included; nor is real-time construction of one item featured start to finish. But this makes for a good reference. Barbara Jacobs
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