The Fashion Design Toolkit

Name: The Fashion Design Toolkit
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781350101562
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18 Patternmaking Techniques for Creative Practice

By Tracy Jennings

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The Fashion Design Toolkit by Tracy Jennings offers a comprehensive guide to mastering 18 essential patterning techniques such as gathers, pleats, tucks, and twists. The book explores these techniques within five categories—from establishing fit and flare to focusing on sustainable design concepts. Each technique is illustrated through historical and contemporary examples to inspire original garment creation. Ethical practice and environmental sustainability are key themes throughout. Readers also gain access to online resources, including a downloadable pattern block in US sizes 4–18.
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This book is ideal for fashion students, aspiring designers, and professionals seeking to enhance their pattern drafting skills with an emphasis on creativity and sustainability. It supports both beginners and experienced makers interested in innovative and ethical garment design.

"Demonstrates how 18 core techniques, such as darts, inserts, twists and folds, can be used to create beautiful garment designs or adapt existing patterns"--

Demonstrates how 18 core techniques, such as darts, inserts, twists and folds, can be used to create beautiful garment designs or adapt existing patterns.

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With The Fashion Design Toolkit you’ll learn how tried-and-tested techniques like gathers, pleats, tucks, and twists can help you adapt patterns and create your own original garment designs. Tracy Jennings walks you through 18 patterning tactics to inspire fresh ideas, demonstrating how embracing pattern drafting skills can lead to innovative and effective collections.

Each technique is illustrated in a variety of contexts, showing how and why it has been used by other designers, so you can use the history of each tool as inspiration for your original collections. Ethical practice is woven throughout the book, with tips on how to implement techniques in an environmentally sustainable way.

The 18 essential techniques are divided into 5 categories:

Establishing Fit and Flare: Darts, Slash & Spread, Seaming, Insets
Channeling Fullness: Gathers, Ruffles, Pleats, Tucks
Fashioning the Fluid and Unstructured: Arcs, Flounces, Drapes, Twists
Engineering Fabric and Form: Contouring, Structure, Textile Designs
Focusing on Concepts: Adaptation, Reduction, Zero Waste

Online resources include a downloadable pattern block, which is available in US sizes 4–18.

www.bloomsburyonlineresources.com/fashion-design-toolkit

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350101562

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 July 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Illustration: 280 color illus

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 268.0mm

Weight: 849g

Pages: 248

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About the Author

Tracy Jennings is a professor of fashion at Dominican University, USA. She teaches courses in apparel design, clothing construction, textile science, and computer-aided design. She incorporates years of experience as a patternmaker and designer of women’s career wear into her classes. Her research interests include aspects of fashion and design related to creativity, technology, and sustainability.