Lucia Mors de Castro has worked for Vivienne Westwood and several other fashion labels, designers and artists in London, Lima, Vienna and Berlin, where she currently teaches Pattern making/Draping at the International University of Art for Fashion. She is the author of Patternmaking in Fashion. Isabel Sanchez Hernandez is a fashion designer and pattern maker. She has extensive teaching experience and has developed her own work method in which she mixes conventional and geometrical patternmaking techniques. She is the author of Little Black Dress.
Excellent pattern making book!--Natosha Miller "Test Try Results
Blog" (2/16/2016 12:00:00 AM)
Fashion designers Sanchez Hernandez and Mors de Castro team up to
offer a class in a book for designers, fashion students, and
experienced sewers. They encourage readers to produce their own
patterns as a way to express creativity, achieve the perfect fit,
and gain satisfaction from creating their clothes from start to
finish. Most of the book consists of specific design tutorials,
including photos and illustrations of the process and finished
products. The authors provide designs for skirts and jackets, but
the bulk of the book is devoted to dresses, from basic to more
elaborate and daring designs. The instructions are straightforward
and suitable for beginning patternmakers, though a beginning sewer
would likely have some trouble. The glossary is detailed and a
helpful reference for certain patternmaking, sewing, or fabric
terms. The authors explain how to properly take body measurements,
accompanied by graphics and photos, and include a chart to keep the
numbers organized. Also helpful are two standard measurement charts
for European and American sizing. All measurements are metric. Like
a private course, this book provides readers with the
skill-building techniques to adapt patterns and create their own.--
"Publishers Weekly" (11/16/2015 12:00:00 AM)
Practical Pattern Making is the book I wish I had read a few years
ago, when I first got interested in pattern making. It takes you
from zero to hero in under 250 pages. I really like this book
because it's practical, yet fearless. Written by pattern makers and
fashion designers Lucia Mors de Castro and Isabel Sanchez
Hernandez, the book is organized in three sections: traditional
patterns, geometric patterns and traditional geometric patterns...
For a designer and maker interested in creating and sewing dresses,
this book is fantastic... If you're more adventurous and love shape
and fabric manipulation, this book will light up your imagination.
If you're not sure, the book includes basic blocks that you can
magnify to use in your own creations, so you can use what you've
learned to create your own, new garments. The images and
descriptions make the book very clear and ready to be put to
work.--Ina "Sky Turtle Blog" (1/21/2016 12:00:00 AM)
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