Fashion Design and Pattern Design

Fashion Design Book / Pattern Design Book

The program's books show, with step-by-step diagrammed instructions, how the industry’s top designing departments produce the patterns and make the sample garments for high-end clothing – garments that are sold to preferred, wealthy customers in the very best stores in the country.

The pant books begin with instructions on how to take accurate measurements and how to use them with professional drafting tools to draft patterns that fit. Knowing these skills enables and speeds the production of beautiful clothing.

Every step of the procedure is included. Charts are presented to give a place to record measurements, help with the math, and make it easy to draft patterns that fit correctly. Numbered cells in the charts refer back to previous charts so that work is not repeated.

The instructions in these books are for making production patterns that are used to cut traditional woven fabrics. It is necessary to first learn how to make production patterns for use with traditional woven fabrics. Once those procedures are learned, it is then easier to understand how to draft patterns for use with stretch wovens and knit fabrics.

Stretch fabrics vary so much from one to another; the industry develops separate pattern sets for each individual stretch fabric. The industry may also develop individual sets of patterns for some types of traditional woven fabrics as the same set of patterns can give varying results depending on the fabric used. But with woven fabrics the varying results are usually minor. In the industry a pattern must ALWAYS be tested in its designated fabric before being sent to the factory. Testing the patterns in muslin, as shown in the books, will give good results as long as the patterns’ final usage is with traditional woven fabrics.

Students watch a sewing demonstration, making notes in their textbooks as they do so.
Minimal equipment is needed to teach design room techniques.

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