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Laurel Hoffmann High-end Design Room Industrial Fashion Methods
Laurel Hoffmann

High-end Design Room
Techniques
Contemporary Fashion Education, Inc.

Laurel Hoffmann
This is a green, environmentally
 friendly fashion education
 program. Minimal equipment
 is required. All drafting can be
 done with basic drafting tools
and pencils. All sewing cold be done on a treadle sewing machine. Except for pressing, even electricity isn't needed.

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Laurel Hoffmann Read Expert offers courses in making high fashion at home, written by Kaitlyn Linsner, published in the Springfield Sun.

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Laurel's classes are now being taught at Holy Martyrs Church in Oreland.

Registration for winter and spring classes is open. Weather postponed the start of Drafting & Fitting Pants and Skirts to Saturday, January 28.

Laurel Hoffmann Textbook information

Laurel Hoffmann Contemporary Fashion Education, Inc.

Laurel Hoffmann Laurel is quoted in the April 2011 issue of Inside Fashion/Fashion Technology Magazine. Read the article...
Getting Y
our Hands in the Clay.
Visit the publisher's website.

Laurel Hoffmann Doll bag instructions
Testimonials, Seminars & News

Laurel Hoffmann November 4, 2011 Laurel offered her books at the 2011 International Textiles and Apparel Association (ITAA)'s annual conference in Philadelphia where her books were well received.

Laurel Hoffmann October 2011 Laurel taught the Cutting Difficult Fabrics  seminar at the Association of Sewing and Design Professionals (ASDP) Educational Conference in Portland, Oregon.

Laurel Hoffmann October 2010 Laurel taught the C5: Industrial Fly & Invisible Zipper Sets - L15 seminar at the Association of Sewing and Design Professionals (ASDP) Educational Conference in Secaucus, New Jersey.

Laurel Hoffmann Picture and comments about Laurel teaching Making Effective Use of Home Sewing Patterns at the Association of Sewing and Design Professionals, Inc's Educational Conference in Illinois in October, 08.

Laurel Hoffmann Read about Sustainable/Fair Trade Companies here in the Philadelphia area.

Laurel Hoffmann (1.19mb) Read the review, Learning to Design Garments That Really Fit Real People published in Fashion Technology Magazine. Visit the publisher's website. View the cover pages that feature Laurel Hoffmann and students.

Laurel Hoffmann (353kb) Read the review, Oreland expert offers course in making high fashion at home published in the Springfield Sun.

Laurel Hoffmann Vogue Patterns magazine...Learning from the Best

Laurel Hoffmann Sew Young...Techniques for Teaching
Laurel Hoffmann Book Beat...A magazine book review.

Laurel Hoffmann Faculty Show 2006

Fashion Affiliations

Laurel Hoffmann All affiliations

Laurel Hoffmann International Textile and Apparel Association (ita a)
Laurel Hoffmann National Association of Sustainable Fashion Designers (NASFD)

Laurel is now listed on
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where you can find and book trustworthy local services.

Contact Information

Laurel Hoffmann Phone: 215 884 7065
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Fax: 215 884 3727
Laurel Hoffmann E-mail

Laurel Hoffmann Mail: Contemporary Fashion Education, Inc., Laurel Hoffmann, Box 74, Oreland, PA 19075-2014

More about the program

This program is about high-end professional drafting and sewing techniques, as done in custom haute couture and high-end industrial designing departments. Minimal equipment is needed, as the more expensive the garment, the less equipment needed to make it. Although you will learn about industrial sewing machines, all work in the program can be done on a treadle sewing machine in the home. 

A treadle is an old fashioned sewing machine that uses no electricity.

 

Laurel Hoffmann's
High-end industrial pattern making/sewing instructions
                                     for home, cottage industry, and design room.

Design Room Techniques
is now on Amazon.com!




Design Room Techniques

contains 440 pages

DRT's step-by-step fully diagrammed material has
been extensively tested with fashion students, entrepreneurs, and design room personnel in college classrooms over a period of 20 years. Designed and used as a college textbook it contains all of the basic design room sewing procedures fashion design students need to know. Patterns for mockups, and references to the sample book pages where students place their finished samples are included at the end
of the chapters.

  Design Room Techniques and its sample book present a fundamental understanding of design room procedures. With minimal equipment, a few inexpensive tools used in the industry, and the PDF of the author's master sample book on the included CD, this sewing textbook will enable you to produce more professional results, whether you are a fashion student, work in the industry, have an entrepreneurial business, or need these skills for personal use.

Learn how to make high-end zipper sets, kick pleats, hems, seam finishes, bias bindings, buttonholes, etc., as done in high-end designing departments. With minimal equipment, a few inexpensive tools used in the industry, and PDF's of the author's master sample book on the included CD, you will be able to produce professional samples. Once you have completed the sample book you will have an impressive portfolio you can show to clients and potential employers. The book retails for $125.00 (USA).


To order DRT and/or the pant books, below, directly from the publisher, Contemporary Fashion Education, Inc., please call 215 884 7065.
For book sellers' and educators' rates, please call 215 884 7065.
The books are written for both novices and professionals.


Drafting & Fitting Pants and Skirts - Laurel Hoffmann
Drafting & Fitting Pants and Skirts
contains 288 pages.
Sewing Pants and Skirts - Laurel Hoffmann
Sewing Pants and Skirts
contains 272 pages.


The two pant books are available on Amazon.com and on this website. Samples of material from both pant books are on both this web site and Amazon.com at
Search Inside the Book (tm).

 

 

Using this classroom-tested program, learn the professional fashion design pattern design and clothing design procedures used in the world's top design rooms to produce beautifully custom fitted, highly desirable garments like those sold in high-end boutiques in Paris and New York City.  Industrial fashion design methods, pattern making and clothing design skills will enable you to start a home-based fashion design business, learn to sew more professionally, and learn the art of draping, drafting and fitting. Learn how to start a clothing line and/or how to start a clothing business, learn to draft professional patterns from measurements, learn how to adapt grade rules, and how to grade home sewing patterns to custom fit. Learn to sew and manufacture high-end, luxurious clothing for yourself and others. Learn how to cut exotic textile designs to match.

The introductory Design Room Techniques book and the pant books are available in hard copy for purchase now. Four additional books are in progress. As the additional books become ready, we will post them on the website. Currently they are still in-progress and not available for sale. That is because our insistence on high quality, easy-to-understand, step-by-step instructions that REALLY work, is in place. This policy ensures that you, our customer, will be highly satisfied with the improvement in your sewing EVERY time you buy and use one of our books. As always, all work is guaranteed. If not COMPLETELY satisfied please return your book within 30 days for a FULL refund, no questions asked.

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