Claire Shaeffer's Fabric Sewing Guide - Softcover

Shaeffer, Claire B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 089689536X ISBN 13: 9780896895362

Publisher: Krause Pubns Inc, 2008

Synopsis

A new, full-color edition of this reference that has been completely revised contains the answers to the most common fabric-sewing questions as well as details about the latest advancements in sewing, easy-to-read charts for needle sizes and thread, information on new fibers, and more. Original.

About this title

About the Author

Claire Shaeffer is a respected author, lecturer, college instructor and columnist. She frequently contributes articles to sewing magazines, and has authored many books, including Sew Any Patch Pocket, Couture Sewing Techniques, Sew Any Fabric and The Complete Book of Sewing Shortcuts. Claire Shaeffer makes her home in Palm Springs, California.

From Library Journal

Home sewers have their choice of many guides to clothing construction, but this title is unique because it focuses on fab rics and materials used to make garments. The fiber content of leathers, synthetic suedes, vinyls, fur, feathers, natural fab rics, and man-made fabrics are all de tailed. The section on fabric structure in cludes woven, knit, and stretch-woven fabrics, while that on surface characteris tics ranges from transparent and napped fabrics to felt, reversible, and quilted fab rics and fabrics with designs. After a de scription of the distinctive properties of each textile, techniques for sewing with professional results are outlined, with special emphasis on seams, hems, edge finishes, closures, and hand stitching. A fabric and fiber dictionary, sewing clinic, glossary, and bibliography complete the work. Illustrations from the collections of international design houses are scattered throughout the text. This comprehensive fiber and fabric dictionary is for all public libraries.
-Judith Yankielun Lind, Rose land Free P.L., N.J.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Krause Pubns Inc
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 089689536X
• ISBN 13: 9780896895362
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 525