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Practical pattern making

Herbert Aughtie

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Basics Fashion Design

Anette Fischer

Construction Patterns

Basics Fashion Design

Construction is the foundation of fashion design. It takes great skill to take a two-dimensional drawing and turn it into a successful garment—and now fashion designers can learn those essential skills, from Basics Fashion Design: Construction. With no-nonsense text and more than 200 color images, this book leads readers through the essential stages of creating a garment, from pattern cutting to construction and draping a mannequin, to finishes and haberdashery. Interviews with designers and other fashion-industry creatives from around the globe offer exciting insights into garment construction, from concept to execution.

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#9

Democracy Under Construction

Ursula J. van Beek

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#8

A Pattern Language

Christopher Alexander
Sara Ishikawa
Murray Silverstein

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#7

Pieced Clothing

Yvonne Porcella

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#6

Patterns of Fashion 4

Janet Arnold

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#5

Costume Close Up

Linda Baumgarten
John Watson
Florine Carr

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#4

The Complete Book of Birdhouse Construction for Woodworkers

Scott D. Campbell

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#3

Geometric Patterns and Designs for Artists and Craftspeople (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

Wil Stegenga

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#2

Traditional Construction Patterns

Stephen Mouzon
Susan Henderson

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"NEW" EXOTICISMS. Changing Patterns in the Construction of Otherness. (Postmodern Studies 29)

All civilisations have both feared and been fascinated by what lies beyond their limits, and have to a greater or lesser extent construed their "others" as exotics. Given that, even in its most consumerist fashion, the adoption of the exotic goes back a long way, what, then -if anything- is "new" in contemporary versions of exoticism? This volume attempts to offer some answers to this question. The first of its three sections serves as an extended introduction to the concept and practice of exoticism, considering the phenomenon from a number of theoretical and critical positions, explicitly examining -sometimes via significant examples- the particular attributes of exoticism. The second and third sections are more strictly text-based, relying on the analysis of specific instances of film in the former and literature in the latter, in order to tease out some specific uses of the exotic -whether ethnic, gendered, sexual or other. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students working in the fields of representation, cultural theory, postcolonialism, gender, ethnicity, sexuali...

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"NEW" EXOTICISMS. Changing Patterns in the Construction of Otherness. (Postmodern Studies 29)

Isabel SANTAOLALLA

Construction Patterns
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Patterns of Fashion

Janet Arnold

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