Metric Pattern Cutting for Women's Wear, 6th Edition

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New for this edition is the inclusion of colour to help students recognize the different sections of the book and to enhance the garment illustrations? Colour illustrations also offer a new dimension to the updated material on computer-aided design and the CAD chapter now provides students with a clear guide to the technology. The perfect book to start with, is Metric Pattern Cutting for Women’s Wear by Winifred Aldrich, which has been around since 1975 and by now has reached its 6th edition. It’s been published by John Wiley & Sons. Essential Clinical Skills: Enrolled Nurses, 5th Edition PDF by Joanne Tollefson, Gayle Watson, Eugenie Jelly and Karen Tambree A particularly useful chapter is the one that talks about correcting fit issues. Because lets face it, not everybody has the standard body-shape.

This won't teach you how to sew, but it may provide a foundation for pattern manipulation and drafting.Following some of the adaptions, I've altered commercial patterns, such as splitting the front to have a yoke, rotate the dart to the shoulder and add fullness to gather into the yoke instead of a dart. Metric Pattern Cutting for Women’s Wear gives you the chance to draft patterns to your own measurements. But you can use industrial sizes, too. There are a couple of different size charts: one for teenagers, with a more athletic figure (=high-street fashion), including sizes 6-16. And one for the mature women (=standard), sizes 6-24. Both with the possibility to adjust the measurements by the person’s height: short, medium or tall. There are also different charts for leisure wear with the letter-codes XS-XXL. The size-charts have been updated to reflect the changes in body sizing during the years. This usually means bigger waist and -hips and a smaller bust. Contents

Notchers - These aren't a must but they are useful if you want to make your patterns last longer. They snip a 'U' shape in the paper meaning it doesn't rip as easily asnotching by hand creating 'V' shapes. People often ask me to recommend some pattern making books, so I decided to write a few introductions. Well, there are already these two articles about the Pattern Magic-series, which I continue to recommend, but now it’s time to introduce something more basic. I chose some books which I want to write about. Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach, 10th Edition PDF by Yunus A Cengel, Michael A Boles, and Mehmet KanoğluManagerial Economics and Business Strategy, 10th Edition PDF by Michael R Baye and Jeffrey T Prince The size charts have been revised to reflect the changes in body sizing, the co-ordination with European size charts and to the way that clothes are now marketed to different sectors. The great expansion of casual wear has led to the growth of 'flat cutting' with no darting, and the section devoted to this type of cutting has been further expanded. The book has been written for fashion-students, who are beginners in pattern making, but it’s also useful as a reference book for freelance-designers. Metric Pattern Cutting for Women’s Wear, first published in 1975, provides a straightforward introductory book for students beginning courses in flat pattern cutting.