Pattern Making Books

Pattern Making Books and maybe a few textile & clothing books ...

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Are you a pattern maker?  Or possibly you want to join the profession.  Either way, it is always a good time to learn more about pattern making if you work in the fashion industry.  Understanding the various process involved with garment manufacturing is certainly a good idea.  Hopefully the books below will be of assistance.    

Pattern Making Books at Fashiondex

Apparel Making in Fashion Design

Designing Apparel Through the Flat Pattern 

Pattern Making by the Flat Pattern Method 

Junior Knits 

Fit for Real People Sew Great Clothes Using Any Pattern 

Blueprints of Fashion 

Home Sewing Patterns   

Easy Pattern Alterations for Every Figure  

Don't forget to visit the fashion library in our fashion industry terminology section.

Find a job as a pattern maker and learn about what it means to be a pattern maker.

Learn about flat patterns.

In addition to reading books about fashion and apparel, you may have interest in various fashion magazines.  You can find a very good selection at our new Apparel Magazine web site.

Apparel Books & Fashion Books Search Engines

Fashion Model Books

Career Guide Books - fashion careers

Guides to Fashion Industry

Salesman Buyer Guides

 Visit our new Fashion Books page.

Fashion Industry   Fashion Models   Fashion Book 

If you do not like to read fashion books, or simply do not know how to read, you may have interest in Fashion Movies.

The Flat Pattern Method

Several titles on this page share one method in their names: the flat pattern. Designing Apparel Through the Flat Pattern and Pattern Making by the Flat Pattern Method both teach the system in which a basic block — a plain, well-fitting foundation pattern — is manipulated on paper or card to create new designs: darts moved, fullness added, seams restyled. The glossary's flat pattern definition, linked from this page, gives the term itself. Flat pattern work is the professional core of pattern making because one trusted block can generate a whole season of styles with consistent fit, and the books that teach it are structured as progressive drafting exercises rather than picture surveys.

Fit, Alteration and Real Bodies

A second family of titles on this page addresses what happens when patterns meet real bodies. Fit for Real People and Easy Pattern Alterations for Every Figure are about adjusting patterns so garments fit the wearer in front of you — the skill home sewers and alterations specialists use daily, and the judgement professional pattern makers apply when a sample comes back wrong. Sew Great Clothes Using Any Pattern works the same territory from the sewing side, while Blueprints of Fashion Home Sewing Patterns and Junior Knits serve readers making garments, including knit garments for juniors, outside a factory setting. Apparel Making in Fashion Design stands at the broader end, treating garment making as a whole design discipline.

From Books to the Profession

This page is also a doorway into pattern making as work. The pattern maker directory lists working pattern makers, the marking and grading companies directory covers the services that follow pattern making in production, and the pattern maker job descriptions explain what the job involves for readers considering joining the profession. The Fashiondex pattern making books section, linked from here, presents that store's selection led by Patternmaking for Fashion Design. Reading across both pages gives a learner the full shelf: method texts, fit and alteration guides, home sewing titles and the professional directories that show where the skill is employed.