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From the Pattern Making Books section, you will find books such as below.

Patternmaking for Fashion Design : Renowned for its comprehensive coverage, exceptional illustrations, and clear instructions, this hallmark book offers detailed yet easy-to-understand explanations of the essence of patternmaking. Hinging on a recurring theme that all designs are based on one or more of the three major patternmaking and design principles dart manipulation, added fullness, and contouring it provides all the relevant information necessary to create design patterns with accuracy regardless of their complexity. Sewing guides included for the pleated trouser (with pattern layout), belt/loops, pockets, and zipper; the jean pant with pockets, contour belt, and fly front; and the gusset. Updated jacket foundation draft includes fabric preparation, interfacing, chest piece, tape control, and shoulder pads. Pant drafts Trouser draft including pocket, waistband, and loop; dungaree foundation draft; grunge pant draft; and three jean waistline variations including pocket and sewing instruction. Includes fitting corrections for the basic patterns. Unique section on patternmaking for bias-cut garments. For anyone developing their patternmaking skills.

The Practical Guide To Patternmaking For Fashion Designers: Menswear : The Practical Guide to Patternmaking for Fashion Designers: Menswear offers patternmaking techniques for a variety of garment styles and includes information on sizing, lining, and a variety of fabrics. Covering everything from casual to tailored designs, it can serve both as an introduction to the pattern-drafting skills necessary for menswear and as a more in-depth treatment of patternmaking techniques. The guide covers the patternmaking process for an array of menswear garments, as well as the accompanying theories and concepts.

The Practical Guide To Patternmaking For Fashion Designers: Juniors, Misses and Women : The Practical Guide to Patternmaking for Fashion Designers: Juniors, Misses, and Women offers an in-depth look into the techniques and theories of pattern drafting for women's garments. Covering a wide variety of styles, textiles, and sizes, this book is useful for a wide range of pattern courses from introductory to advanced. It provides a sound introduction to the concepts and the processes of patternmaking, as well as a more advanced analysis of style and design. The book offers helpful techniques on taking measurements and adjusting the fit of garments for all body sizes, patterns, and types of fabrics.

Patternmaking : This comprehensive text covers all the technical aspects of developing precise professional patterns for garments, and gives a firm foundation in the tools, concepts, and methods necessary for success in this highly competitive industry.

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Laurence King: Laurence King publishes pattern making titles including Pattern Magic and Pattern Cutting Deconstructed.

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Below you will find additional fashion industry books of possible interest:

• 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

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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.

Three Principles Behind Every Pattern

Patternmaking for Fashion Design organises the whole craft around three principles, and that organisation is what makes the book teachable. Dart manipulation moves the shaping of a garment from one place to another without changing fit. Added fullness introduces volume — gathers, pleats, flares — where a design wants more than the body's shape. Contouring follows the body's curves closely, shaping a pattern to a form rather than around it. A student who genuinely understands those three operations can analyse almost any design, however complex, and decide which principles it combines — which is the book's stated aim: creating design patterns with accuracy regardless of complexity.

From Principles to Finished Garments

The book does not stop at flat pattern theory. Its included sewing guides carry the reader through complete components: the pleated trouser with its pattern layout, belt and loops, pockets and zipper, and the jean pant with pockets and contouring. Those guides matter because patternmaking errors often hide until sewing: a pocket drafted without its construction in mind, or a waistband that ignores its loops, fails at the machine. Teaching pattern and construction together is what separates a patternmaking text from a drafting manual, and it is why this title is described as a hallmark book of the shelf.

Pattern Making Within the Wider Shelves

This Fashiondex page and the pattern making books page elsewhere in this books section complement each other: this one presents the Fashiondex selection, that one gathers pattern titles across publishers and stores. Around them sit the grading books, which multiply a finished pattern into sizes, the design tools shelf, which supplies measurements and specifications, and the listings for pattern makers, pattern making software and pattern making supplies linked from this page for readers setting up to practise what the books teach.