The Book of Pockets

Name: The Book of Pockets
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SKU: 9781474272490
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A Practical Guide for Fashion Designers

By Adriana Gorea and Katya Roelse and Martha L. Hall

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The Book of Pockets is an essential guide for anyone involved in fashion design, construction, patternmaking, or costume design. It explores the significance of pockets both as a design feature and functional element, tracing their history from workwear to couture. The book features inspirational imagery with detailed patterns, interviews with industry experts, and step-by-step illustrated tutorials on creating various pocket styles including nested pockets, invisible zipper patch pockets, and cascading pockets.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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This book is perfect for fashion designers, patternmakers, costume designers, and anyone interested in the technical and creative aspects of incorporating pockets into garments.

A practical guide to designing and constructing pockets for a broad range of design briefs, from activewear to couture, featuring step-by-step instructions, engaging construction challenges and patterns of this important design detail to inspire readers who want to up their pocket-making game.

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Whether fashionable or functional—or both—pockets are an important design detail that can enhance the aesthetic of your collection and improve the experience of the wearer. Whether it’s for fashion design, construction, patternmaking or costume design, if you’re looking to get the full picture on patch pockets, better command of the cargo, or more know-how on welts, this is your go-to resource.

The Book of Pockets includes:

Inspirational imagery, overlaid with flat patterns or zoom-ins of the pocket detail
Comprehensive information on all things pocket, beginning with their long history and going all the way from workwear to activewear and couture
Practical advice through interviews with fashion designers, curators, and technology developers
A Pocket Flat Sketch Library appendix for quick reference
Step-by-step construction tutorials, illustrated with flats throughout, showing you how to create nested pockets with gussets, invisible zipper patch pockets, cascading pockets, and more

With consumers crying out for stylish, functional pockets, The Book of Pockets is the ultimate guide to help you successfully incorporate them into your designs.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781474272490

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 July 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Illustration: 250 color illus

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 198.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 659g

Pages: 208

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Adriana Gorea Arts & Culture Katya Roelse Martha L. Hall Non-Fiction

About the Author

Adriana Gorea is an assistant professor of fashion design at Syracuse University, USA. She teaches senior design collection and fashion illustration courses.

Katya Roelse is an instructor at the University of Delaware, USA. She also works as a freelance technical designer.

Martha L. Hall is Director of Innovation at the College of Health Sciences at the University of Delaware, USA.