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Tailoring: The Classic Guide to Sewing the Perfect Jacket
The well-tailored jacket, always in style, is one of the most challenging, popular, and satisfying sewing projects. Tailoring is the classic guide to the required techniques. Step-by-step instructions and close-up photographs help hobby sewers get professional results. Tailoring covers all three tailoring methods (custom or hand, machine, and fusible) and the complete proc...more
Paperback, 128 pages
Published
August 1st 2005
by Creative Publishing international
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Tailoring covers methods of jacket construction almost from the big bang. The required notions, choosing fabrics and interfacing and construction steps are all documented with concise text and photographs. The book covers traditional bespoke techniques and also the faster ways with modern materials.
I've found the "Tailored Hems" and method for lining a back vent very useful techniques for dress and skirts too.
The photos are a bit dated but that doesn't detract...more
I've found the "Tailored Hems" and method for lining a back vent very useful techniques for dress and skirts too.
The photos are a bit dated but that doesn't detract...more
This book is a must have for your sewing library. Having recently completed a lengthy and very involved coat project, this was my tailoring bible. I referred to it continuously through out the sewing process, having read it literally from cover to cover which is easy due to the excellent photography and straightforward and concise writing. It begins with the tailoring basics, fabric selection, hand-sewing techniques and proceeds from there. It is the attention to details that culminates in a fi...more
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