Principles of Flat Pattern Design

Written as a beginning-level, patternmaking text, "Principles of Flat Pattern Design, 3rd Edition" provides an added dimension to apparel design and a better understanding of the processes involved in producing ready-to-wear or custom apparel. In this text, the author presents step-by-step instructions and diagrams, including a representation of the completed pattern. Design problems expand on the immediately preceding topic and offer the opportunity to build on previously learned material. An insert of half-scale sloper patterns will help students practice examples and problems in scale.

Nora MacDonald has been a professor of textiles,apparel and merchandising at West Virginia University since 1971. She has conducted collaborative research related to clothing for special needs for the West Virginia Rehabilitation Research Training Center at West Virginia University since 1995 and served as co-chair at the ITAA/SGMA/United Nations International Year of Older Persons Symposium in NY in 1999.