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At the grading book section you will find books such as follows:

Concepts of Pattern Grading: Techniques for Manual and Computer Grading : This well-illustrated, step-by-step introduction to grading combines the theory of pattern grading with its practical applications.

Grading Techniques for Fashion Design, 2nd Edition : Computer grading and automation now make it more necessary than ever to first understand and practice the basic operations of hand grading. This book is for those involved in the design or production of the women's and men's ready-to-wear apparel industry.

Professional Pattern Grading for Women's, Men's, and Children's Apparel : This classic text offers students and industry professionals detailed step-by-step instructions and illustrations for grading pattern pieces for women's, men's, and children's wear.

If you are involved in garment production and need to better understand the concept and techniques for grading clothing, you should check out these books.

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Fairchild Books: Fairchild Books publishes professional grading and patternmaking textbooks used in fashion programs.

You can also checking the pattern making books.

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Pattern Making Books

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Manual Grading and Computer Grading

The books named here share a conviction: grading must be understood by hand before it is trusted to a computer. Concepts of Pattern Grading covers techniques for both manual and computer grading, introducing the theory alongside its practical applications, so a reader learns why each pattern point moves by the amount it does. Grading Techniques for Fashion Design, in its 2nd edition, argues the point directly — automation makes the basic operations of hand grading more necessary to understand, not less, because the operator of grading software has to recognise a wrong result when the screen shows one. A grader trained on both methods can work in a traditional pattern room and supervise a computerised one.

Grading Across Women's, Men's and Children's Wear

Professional Pattern Grading for Women's, Men's, and Children's Apparel is the comprehensive shelf-mate here: a classic text with detailed step-by-step instructions and illustrations for grading pattern pieces across all three markets. The markets grade differently because bodies grow and change differently — children's sizes follow growth, women's and men's follow different fit conventions — so a professional text that treats all three in one methodical system is the book a multi-market pattern room keeps. Students benefit from the same completeness: grading is usually taught on one market first, and this text shows how the principles transfer.

Grading in the Production Chain

Grading sits between pattern making and production. The pattern making books, linked from this page, create the base pattern; grading multiplies it into sizes; marker making and cutting follow. Readers equipping themselves for that chain will also find pattern makers, pattern making software and pattern making supplies linked here, and the pattern making books page of this site gathers the wider shelf. A mistake in grading multiplies across every size, which is why the step has its own dedicated books rather than a chapter in a general text.