The Dressmaker's Handbook: A Complete Guide To Techniques And Materials

by Rene Bergh

An invaluable reference for anyone interested in sewing clothes! This fully illustrated, comprehensive guide offers practical, expert instructions for all necessary techniques, including laying and cutting out patterns, pressing, and making darts, tucks, pleats, hems, plackets, buttonholes, collars, yokes, and pockets. Advice on choosing patterns and fabrics, as well as simple guidelines and foolproof shortcuts for making individual pieces such as blouses, dresses, jackets, skirts, and trousers, will enable any sewer to produce professional-looking garments every time. 160 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 11.

Genres: Sewing

160 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1999

Reviews

[Alicia]

This book looks like it could be very useful.

[Michele]

I return to this book pretty often when I'm sewing. It's a great reference book.

[Amanda]

Pretty basic, but I am going to reference the buttons/ buttonholes and lined skirt pages