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Unlock Your Perfect Fit: Learn Professional Pattern Making


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Flat pattern cutting is the process of creating patterns from blocks for a garment that will be used to guide the cutting and construction of the final outfit i.e. Dress. Block Pattern: Digital ...

A0, A4,US letter size digital block patterns

Pattern Making Blocks as PDF Downloads


DIGITAL BLOCK PATTERNS

The pattern making blocks as PDF downloads are graded sets of women’s garment blocks used by fashion designers, universities, colleges, schools, pattern makers, students and indie sewing designers around the world. The A0 ...

New digital block patterns - A0, A4,US letter size

New Pattern Making Digital Blocks


DIGITAL BLOCK PATTERNS

For Our Subscribed Members: The digital knit block patterns for the bodice, skirt, trouser and dress stretch garments, the woven block pattern for the corset has been added inside the private members portal. ...

5 essential to create a workspace for pattern cutting

5 Essentials to Create an Inexpensive Workspace for Pattern Making


PATTERN MAKING

Once you've designed your garment i.e. a coat, you need to make your pattern on paper or card. Pattern cutting is one of the skills required for the design process when producing clothes ...

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Miniature Scale Garments for the Haute Couture Collection


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Designers often work in small scale when designing garments that require expensive fabrics or a lot of fabric. Working in full scale can be daunting and more complex and requires meticulous painstaking precision ...

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Alexander McQueen Creators Patchwork Challenge


FASHION INDUSTRY

Patchwork dates back to around 5,000 years. The technique is used most often to make quilts, bags, wall hanging and clothing. It’s the art of sewing small pieces of fabric together to form ...

Where Do you Store your Fashion Design Tools?


FASHION DESIGN TOOLS

When I started fashion college we made tools bags for our pattern cutting tools (left), ever since then I’ve always kept my tools in a quilted tool bag as it protects the sharp ...

Fashion and textiles

Take an A-level in Fashion and Textiles: Starting September 2017


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Students will be able to take an A-level in Fashion for the first time ever under plans unveiled 19 May 2016 by exam board AQA with the first students taking the exam in 2019. ...

13 tools I can't live without for pattern making

13 Fashion Design Tools I Can’t Live Without


PATTERN MAKING

Over the years, I’ve accumulated lots of tools and equipment that I use for pattern making, sewing and craft projects. You could say one of my guilty pleasures is shopping for pattern making ...

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