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Dress Making - Drafting and Pattern Making
Dress Making - Drafting and Pattern Making
Dress Making - Drafting and Pattern Making
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Dress Making - Drafting and Pattern Making

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This vintage book contains an introductory guide to tailoring, including complete directions for drafting and pattern-making. With step-by-step instructions and many helpful tips, this volume is designed to introduce the beginner to dressmaking, and aims to walk the novice through the creation of a few simple items. Contents include: “Dressmaking and Tailoring”, “Drafting and Pattern-Making”, “Shirt-Waist”, “Shirt-Waist Sleeve”, “Foundation Skirt”, “Tight-Fitting Waist and Collar”, “Tight-fitting Sleeve”, and “Kimono Waist”. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on dressmaking and tailoring.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 16, 2013
ISBN9781446549759
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Dress Making - Drafting and Pattern Making - Jane Fales

I. SHIRT-WAIST

I. Drafting the Pattern

REGULATION MEASURES

Length Measures

(1) Length of back 15″

(2) Length of front 15½″

(3) Length of underarm 7½″

Width Measures

(1) Width of back 14″

(2) Width of chest 14½″

(3) Bust 38″

(4) Waist 26″

(5) Neck 13½″

Individual measures are taken as described in the preceding chapter.

The shirt-waist pattern is composed of two pieces, one half the back and one half the front. These may both be made, side by side, on one sheet of drafting-paper about 36″ in length. The back is drafted first.

BACK

In the upper left-hand corner of the paper two lines at right angles and of indefinite length should be drawn. The work then proceeds as follows:

(1) To Determine the Foundation Lines:

(2) To Determine the Neck Line:

(3) To Determine the Centre Back Line:

(4) To Determine the Shoulder Line:

(5) To Determine the Underarm Seam:

(6) To Determine the Armseye:

(7) To Determine the Basque:

(8) To Determine the Curve of the Shoulder Seam:

FRONT

Extend the line A of the back of the waist across the sheet and draw a line at right angles to it in the upper right-hand corner. The work then proceeds as follows:

(1) To Determine the Foundation Lines:

(2) To Determine the Neck Line:

(3) To Determine the Width of Chest:

(4) To Determine the Shoulder Line:

(5) To Determine the Underarm Seam:

(6) To Determine the Armseye:

(7) To Determine the Waist Line:

(8) To Determine the Centre Front Line:

(9) To Determine the Basque:

(10) To Determine the Curve of the Shoulder Seam:

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