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Fashion Sewing: Advanced Techniques
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This book is suited to readers with some basic sewing experience seeking to elevate their skills, as well as ambitious beginners who want to produce professional-quality garments through structured learning.
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Fashion Sewing: Advanced Techniques guides the reader through a range of intermediate and advanced skills, such as tailoring, sewing with knits, inserting linings and facings, and how to sew a wide range of design variations for collars, pockets, and sleeves.
The detailed step-by-step instructions are easy to follow, with clear accompanying illustrations.
This comprehensive guide serves as an ideal accompaniment to the first book in the series, Fashion Sewing: Introductory Techniques. However, it will also enable those with little sewing experience to master their fashion sewing skills and create beautiful, professional-looking garments.
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Book Details
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ISBN: 9781350162006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 21 May 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Illustration: 1000 colour illus
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 210.0mm
Height: 268.0mm
Weight: 623g
Pages: 208
About the Author
Connie Amaden-Crawford is President and CEO of Fashion Patterns by Coni, a member of the Sewing Hall of Fame, and a licensed designer for The McCall Pattern Company under the Butterick label. She is author of The Art of Fashion Draping, 4th Edition (Fairchild Books, 2012).
Also by Connie Amaden-Crawford
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