Pattern Design: Fundamentals: Construction and Pattern Drafting for Fashion Design By Jennifer Lynne Matthews-Fairbanks
Pattern Design: Fundamentals is an ideal book for beginners to the field of fashion design as well as self guided learners. Pattern Design: Fundamentals covers the basics of pattern making, terminology and drafting concepts. This book is different than all other drafting books of its kind. This drafting book combines knowledge of drafting with sewing and construction. Please note that this book does not include draft by measure. Draft by measure is an intermediate topic and it is best to understand how to manipulate patterns before trying to draft using personal measurements. This topic will be discussed in the Sloper book.
The best way to understand how patterns are drafted is to understand how the drafts are constructed, why certain pattern markings are used and in what order a pattern should be constructed. Understanding the construction, solidifies ones drafting knowledge, connecting the dots of two dimensional drafting to the three dimensional finished garment.
Pattern Design was developed by designer and educator Jennifer Lynne Matthews Fairbanks. Fairbanks years of instructing at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising coupled with her years running her own design and sewing studio, make for the ideal combination of teaching to the visual and self guided learner.
Chapters 1 and 2 introduce you to the tools, terms and pattern markings, including fabrics used, grainlines of patterns and the grain of a fabric. You will create a simple pattern with all appropriate markings from an unaltered sloper and learn each part of all slopers used throughout the book.
In the first section, Shape, Pattern Design walks you through manipulating darts with the pivot and slash and spread methods, creating pleats, tucks and gathers. Each chapter details the basics of construction in order to complete each exercise fully and utilizes several different slopers to show how each concept can be translated to different garment types.
Section two, Line, covers style lines (also called seam lines) and combines style lines with design elements from the Shape section.
The third section, Details, includes beginner design detail concepts such as pockets, extensions, collars and banding. Pocket exercises include patch pockets, in seam pockets and inset pockets. Extensions for buttons and placket for blouses are also demonstrated. The banding chapter covers simple waistbands and sleeve cuffs.
The forth and final section covers Finishes. Finishes include facings, zipper insertion and basic hemming.
Pattern Design: Fundamentals covers the material that most fashion design students learn in their first year of schooling. The book is an ideal guide for self learners or for classroom instruction.
Pattern Design: Fundamentals is the first book in this pattern making series of books. Pattern Design: Fundamentals: Construction and Pattern Drafting for Fashion Design
It's a great book for very beginners / starters in pattern design. It has a gradual evolution, from the simple notions to the complex, with excercises helping you to understand the practical fundamentals, which is great. I learned a lot of basics. Thank you! :) Jennifer Lynne Matthews-Fairbanks This book does not teach you how to draft a pattern, at the back of the book they have half scale patterns that you use to do your pattern alterations. The book is really good at giving you lots of ideas on how to modify the half scale patterns. But in the end you do not learn how to actually draft a full size pattern.
I want to return this book,not up to the standard bien Content is very basic. No dimensions, no reference measurement mentioned.Not much useful.
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