High Fashion Sewing Secrets from the World's Best Designers: A Step-by-step Guide to Sewing Stylish Seams, Buttonholes, Pockets, Collars, Hems and More (Rodale Sewing Book) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

High Fashion Sewing Secrets from the World's Best Designers: A Step-by-step Guide to Sewing Stylish Seams, Buttonholes, Pockets, Collars, Hems and More (Rodale Sewing Book) Book

If you want your notched collars to lie smoothly like Ellen Tracy's, your pants zippers to be as invisibly fused with the inseam pocket as Giorgio Armani's, and your topstitched facings to have the impeccable look of Chanel, this is the book to have. Home sewers need and want exactly the kind of painstaking construction tips that Claire B. Shaeffer provides. She not only tells you how to add designer details such as those mentioned above, but also how to copy any garment, alter a sleeve, change seams to darts or folds (or vice versa), and make a basic pattern. This is one of the best intermediate sewing guides on the market.Read More

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    This is a Step-by-Step Guide to Sewing Stylish Seams, Buttonholes, Pockets, Collars, Hems and More!Internationally known sewing expert, Claire Shaeffer, reveals the secrets of high-fashion legends such as Geoffrey Beene, Ralph Lauren, Oscar de la Renta, Yves Saint Laurent, Liz Claiborne and Calvin Klein. This beautifully illustrated (color photographs and drawings, step-by-step instructions let you duplicate the design details made famous in expensive ready-to-wear. The author's timesaving patternmaking and copying methods can be used to create one-of-a-kind, original garments.Table of Contents:PART I: FAST & FANCYFANCY CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES*Seams*Facings*Hems*BindingsFANCY DETAILS*Pockets and flaps*Collars and lapels*Plackets and fastenersJUST FANCY*Trims*Wraps and shawlsBEHIND THE SEAMS*Inner Secrets*Interfacing and liningsPART II: DESIGN BASICSMAKE YOUR OWN PATTERNS*Preparing to make a pattern*Plotting a patternCOPY A GARMENT*Prepare to copy a garment*Foolproof copyingPATTERNMAKING BASICS*Elements of design*Darts*Necklines*Tucks*Button closures*Design worksheet

  • 0875967175
  • 9780875967172
  • Claire B. Shaeffer
  • 1 October 1998
  • Rodale Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 245
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