Fashion Design Tools Books

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All the best fashion, production, and design inspiration books to make your designing life easier.

From the design tools section you will find books such as below:

Apparel Design and Production Handbook/a Technical Reference : Abest seller, containing standard body measurements for regular and special sizes in the Women's, Men's and Children's markets. Also, fully graded specs for all sizes, grade rules, sizing charts and more... A must-have book for every design and patternmaking room.

Color Book : Great time-saving color name book with over 1,300 color names for you to pick and choose from, arranged by hue.

The Design Detail Book : Necklines, Collars, Lapels. A creative reference book containing an abundance of quick fashion sketches for design development.

From Pencil To Pen Tool : No longer will fashion professionals and students have to consult bulky computer guidebooks to learn the secrets of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator!

Fashion Sketchbook : Fashion Sketchbook, 5th Edition, explains step-by-step how to draw women, men, and children; pose the figure; develop the fashion head and face; sketch accessories; include garment details; and prepare flats and specs.

Rendering Fashion, fabric and Prints : Excellent step-by-step guide addressing all aspects of textile and surface design rendering and the achieving desired effects using Adobe PhotoShop

Fashion Illustration for Designers : The world of fashion is one of beautiful images and this textbook has been created to teach designers how to draw all types of fashion figures that reflect those beautiful images, in a modern approach.

The above example is only a small portion of the fashion design tools available.

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Laurence King: Laurence King Publishing offers a fashion and textiles collection featuring design tools titles such as Pattern Magic, Fabric for Fashion, and the Pocket Guides to Fashion.

Thames & Hudson: Thames & Hudson publishes beautifully illustrated books on fashion, design, and the visual arts.

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If you are new to the fashion industry or an experienced garmento, reading books about fashion and textiles is one of the best things you can do to stay ahead of the competition.  If you are serious about fashion, it is very important to stay educated regarding all issues regarding fiber to fashion.  Read a book about fabrics, manufacturing, pattern making etc.

Fashion Directories The number-one collection of fashion industry sourcing and reference material available.

Fashion Design Tools All the best fashion, production, and design inspiration books to make your designing life easier.

Fashion Business The most current books on the business of the fashion trade and running a fashion company.

Technical Books A huge selection of technical know-how publications.

How-To's Red-hot how-to books on all the phases of design and production.

Fashion Dictionaries The finest fashion and related terminology books available.

Garment & Textile Sourcing Up-to-the-minute publications on sourcing and finding and working with the suppliers and materials, worldwide.

Clothes Shopping  Oh where, oh where, should you shop???

Grading Books

Pattern Making Books

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Measurement and Specification References

Design tools books earn their place in the design room by answering factual questions fast. The Apparel Design and Production Handbook named on this page is the clearest example: standard body measurements for regular and special sizes across the women's, men's and children's markets, fully graded specs for all sizes, grade rules and sizing charts in one volume. A designer or pattern maker consulting it is not reading for pleasure but checking the numbers a garment will be built to — the difference between a sample that fits its intended size range and one that has to be remade. References of this kind sit open on the pattern table, which is why the handbook is described as a must-have for every design and patternmaking room.

Colour Naming and Design Detail

Colour is the other daily decision the design tools shelf supports. The Color Book collects over 1,300 colour names arranged by hue, so a team can name shades consistently across a range, a tech pack and a conversation with a dye house or a factory — replacing 'the pinkish one' with a name everyone can find again. Design detail references work the same way for construction and trim: standard ways of finishing, fastening and detailing garments, collected so a designer can specify a detail precisely instead of sketching it from memory. Together with the measurement references, these books form the shared factual language of a design room.

The Fashiondex Category Shelves

This page is one doorway into the Fashiondex store. The neighbouring sections — directories, apparel business, technical reference, how-to books, dictionaries, sourcing, shopping, grading and pattern making — are linked at the foot of the page and in the navigation above, and the store's own three book store pages gather the full offering. A reader who arrives for a design handbook can therefore continue to the grading books that turn a base pattern into a size range, or to the pattern making books that build the pattern in the first place, without leaving the store's organisation.