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Fashion Sewing: Introductory Techniques
Description
Featuring easy-to-follow instructions on all the main basic and intermediate skills required to sew garments from a pattern, Fashion Sewing: Introductory Techniques is an excellent resource for fashion design students who want to improve their sewing skills.
The book includes advice on setting up the home sewing studio, an introduction to fabrics, a fitting guide and a wide range of basic and intermediate techniques on stitches, seams, hems and fastenings.
Featuring comprehensive instructions, accompanied by large, clear illustrations, this book enables readers to visualize each action and apply key sewing techniques to their own projects.
Table of Contents
Preface
1: Getting Started: Sewing machines; Overlockers; Sewing equipment and tools; Pressing equipment and tools
2: Identifying fashion fabrics: An introduction to fabrics; Cotton; Linen; Silk; Wool; Other natural fibres; Synthetic and man-made fibres; Neither natural nor synthetic ; Blended fabrics; Fabrics with pile and nap; Lace; Linings and interfacings
3: Body types and size charts: Women; Children; Adolescents; Men
4: Planning a design and selecting fabric: Planning a design; Selecting a pattern; Fitting the pattern; Pattern and fabric layout; Transferring pattern markings
5: Stitches; Key terms and concepts; Crimping and ease stitching; Gathering; Stretching and sewing elastic; Hemming stitches
6: Seams and shaping: Seams; Seam finishes; Darts; Sewing darts; Pleats; Tucks
7: Hems: Key terms and concepts; Marking and turning a hem; Rolled or merrow hem; Corner hem; Mitred hem
8: Closures: Key terms and concepts; Buttons and buttonholes; Hook-and-loop tape; Hooks and eyes; Zips
Appendix
Glossary of sewing terms
Yardage conversion table
fabric resources
Index
Acknowledgements
1: Getting Started: Sewing machines; Overlockers; Sewing equipment and tools; Pressing equipment and tools
2: Identifying fashion fabrics: An introduction to fabrics; Cotton; Linen; Silk; Wool; Other natural fibres; Synthetic and man-made fibres; Neither natural nor synthetic ; Blended fabrics; Fabrics with pile and nap; Lace; Linings and interfacings
3: Body types and size charts: Women; Children; Adolescents; Men
4: Planning a design and selecting fabric: Planning a design; Selecting a pattern; Fitting the pattern; Pattern and fabric layout; Transferring pattern markings
5: Stitches; Key terms and concepts; Crimping and ease stitching; Gathering; Stretching and sewing elastic; Hemming stitches
6: Seams and shaping: Seams; Seam finishes; Darts; Sewing darts; Pleats; Tucks
7: Hems: Key terms and concepts; Marking and turning a hem; Rolled or merrow hem; Corner hem; Mitred hem
8: Closures: Key terms and concepts; Buttons and buttonholes; Hook-and-loop tape; Hooks and eyes; Zips
Appendix
Glossary of sewing terms
Yardage conversion table
fabric resources
Index
Acknowledgements
Product details
| Published | 18 Dec 2018 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 184 |
| ISBN | 9789388002387 |
| Imprint | Fairchild Books India |
| Illustrations | 1000 colour illus |
| Dimensions | 270 x 210 mm |
| Series | Required Reading Range |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd |
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