Complete Guide to Dressmaking: All the Essential Techniques and Skills You Need
Author(s): Jules Fallon
A beautifully presented technique-resource, this is a guide for dressmakers new to the craft and for those who want to take their skills further. This definitive how-to book features scores of step-by-step sequences showing every kind of technique, from simply using and adapting paper patterns, to specialist couture-inspired seaming techniques that will take your garment-making skills to a new level. Author Jules Fallon runs a hugely popular and over-subscribed series of dressmaking classes, which means she knows exactly the techniques that everyone gets stuck on. She brings her neat tricks and sage advice to all aspects of the book, and especially to the "Help!" features: troubleshooting fixes for the real-world mistakes that are part of our dressmaking experience.
Product Information
Jules Fallon began her career as an apprentice pattern cutter and gained her Fashion Degree as a mature student. She set up her own design company, designing and producing couture and ready-to-wear bridal and evening wear. Before setting up Sew Me Something, she was head of a college fashion department. Sew Me Something offers dressmaking workshops from a team of expert tutors. She lives in Stratford-Upon-Avon in the UK. For more information, see www.sewmesomething.co.uk
General Fields
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- : Search Press, Limited
- : Search Press, Limited
- : 01 September 2017
- : 254mm X 215mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 September 2017
- : books
Special Fields
- : Jules Fallon
- : Paperback
- : 646.432
- : 256
- : 500 Illustrations, color