Author : Sandra Betzina
Publisher : Taunton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,96 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781561586622
A new edition of the best-selling fabric guide includes all-new updated information on the selection of the best fabrics for a variety of projects and how to make the most of them, including new tips and more than three hundred color photographs.
Author : Sandra Betzina
Publisher : Taunton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,30 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Dressmaking materials
ISBN : 9781561585731
The fabric-lover's guide to cloth offers preshrinking instructions and advice on layout, marking, interfacing, and hemming.
Author : Sandra Betzina
Publisher : Taunton Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781631868412
"All new fabric savvy takes the guesswork out of choosing the best fabric for any sewing project. Each of the 107 fabrics features detailed information on laying out, marking, and cutting the fabric; choosing the best thread, needle, stitch length, and presser foot; pressing; finish details; and more"--Back cover.
Author : Mood Designer Fabrics
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 34,11 MB
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 161312872X
“Designers, we’re going to Mood!” More than 10 years ago, Tim Gunn and Project Runway introduced millions of viewers to New York’s ultimate fabric mecca, Mood Fabrics. Now, the experts behind this fabric power- house bring their fabric and fashion know-how—plus their behind-the-scenes stories—to the sewing public. The Mood Guide to Fabric and Fashion is the ultimate guide for home-sewers, fashion students, aspiring designers, and Project Runway fans who want to learn everything they need to know to choose and use quality fabric. Drawing upon the expertise of the Mood staff, the book teaches readers the fundamentals—from where fabric is produced to the ins and outs of its construction—and features a fabric-by-fabric guide to cottons and other plant fibers, wools, silks, knits, and other specialty fabrics.
Author : Claire Shaeffer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 14,38 MB
Release : 2003-11-10
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1440220336
Fabric Basics at Your Fingertips Have you ever wished you could call an expert and ask for a five-minute explanation on the particulars of a fabric you are sewing? Claire Shaeffer provides this key information for 88 of today's most popular fabrics. In this handy, easy-to-follow reference, she guides you through all the basics while providing hints, tips, and suggestions base don her 20-plus years as a college instructor, pattern designers, and author. In each concise chapter, Claire shares fabric facts, design ideas, workroom secrets, and her sewing checklist, as well as her sewability classification to advice you on the difficulty of sewing each fabric. Color photographs offer further ideas. The succeeding sections offer sewing techniques and advice on needles, threads, stabilizers, and interfacings. Claire's unique fabric/fiber dictionary cross-reference over 600 additional fabrics. An invaluable reference for any one who sews, Sew Any Fabric provides practical, clear information for novices and inspiration for more experienced sewers who are looking for new ideas and techniques.
Author : Nicole Mallalieu
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 47,72 MB
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1617453129
A fashion expert’s techniques, tips, and tricks for transforming your favorite garment patterns—one small detail at a time! Add or remove pockets. Adjust the neckline. Create new cuffs. Swap a zippered back to a button front. With step-by-step instructions, clear illustrations, and how-to photos in this guide, you’ll learn professional design alterations for your favorite men’s, women’s, and children’s commercial sewing patterns. Whether you have basic sewing skills or are a confident dressmaker, you can learn to be your own fashion designer! “Each chapter focuses on a specific topic, and Mallalieu provides a concise explanation and expert tips, as well as numerous diagrams and photographs . . . Skilled sewists interested in altering their favorite patterns will find an abundance of advice.” —Library Journal
Author : Marypaul Yates
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 2002-04-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780393730623
Fabrics provides designers with the information needed to make their fabric specifications easy, informed, and appropriate to the job at hand, considering aesthetics, performance, application, and green design. This thorough handbook by a textile professional describes and illustrates fibers and yarns, fabric structures, fabric design, dye and printing processes, finishes and treatments, styles and applications of cloth for furniture, window-, wall-, and floor coverings. Also covered are testing and flaws; the fabric industry, and professional practice.
Author : Nicole Vasbinder
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 46,52 MB
Release : 2012-01-07
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1620337312
Even the best sewists will encounter problems, snags, and little glitches in their work. Expert sewist and author Nicole Vasbinder's Sewing Solutions is an indispensable reference filled with invaluable advice you can trust. Organized by stages, you'll find: • Detailed advice for the sewing process, including pros and cons, and basic considerations of working in each step. • An easy-to-follow layout providing basic information as well as step-by-step techniques for making bias tape, sewing trims, buttonholes, zippers, hems, and more. • Easy-tonavigate color-coded cross-references available for quick referencing. • Troubleshooting tips that advise how to deal with every sewing situation. Whether choosing the right tools, reading patterns correctly, or everything in between, Sewing Solutions will prove to be an essential sewing companion.
Author : Sandra Betzina
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 13,11 MB
Release : 1996-10-15
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780875967448
Provides patterns and instructions for sewing pants, vests, t-shirts, jackets, skirts, and dresses
Author : Sandra Betzina
Publisher : Taunton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,91 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781561586493
Every sewer has to make pattern alterations at one time or another and this book provides a fresh approach to this normally complex subject.
