The Art of Fashion Draping [Paperback]

Connie Amaden-Crawford (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1996

This revision of an easy-to-follow bestseller teaches the different methods and principles involved in draping fabric on the dress form. The Art of Fashion Draping, 3rd Edition is organized from basic to more advanced topics and includes a wide variety of styles. New and revised illustrations and updated instructions keep the book up to date with a younger and more fashionable look. This beautifully illustrated book is an invaluable teaching tool for fashion design, clothing, and dressmaking students and professionals.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Connie Amaden-Crawford is a licensed designer for The McCall Pattern Company under the Butterick label and is President and CEO of Fashion Patterns by Coni. A former instructor at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) in Los Angeles, California, her professional experience includes positions as a patternmaker, grader, and design consultant. A nationally recognized fashion specialist, she has been featured in magazines such as Threads, Sew News, and Notions and was a guest speaker on the ABC TV series Home. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Fairchild Books & Visuals; 2ND edition (February 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563670178
• ISBN-13: 978-1563670176
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 9.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #286,835 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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132 of 135 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good intro to draping, March 14, 2000

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allison taylor (orange county, california) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Art of Fashion Draping (Paperback)

Excellent intro for novice sewers as a text, or experienced sewers wanting to learn draping skills. Covers tools/equipment, terms/elements of draping, the basic bodice/skirt/shift/sleeve, princess bodice/dress, skirt variations, pants, sleeve and armhole variations, collars, cowl necks, yoke variations, knits, and a few intermediate fashion features like sculptured pleats, bias, boned bustier, ruffles/flounces/gathering, and peplums. To follow the exercises, you must have a dress form (preferrably professional) to work with. But with numbered steps giving a very simplified process, and the very clear and numerous b/w diagrams, you should be able to teach yourself the rudiments of draping unless you are also a beginner at sewing. As a veteran sewer and novice draper, I received this as a textbook for my first draping class and appreciated it as a reference. But it's no substitute for a beginning sewing class. I would strongly recommend this for home sewers ready to move beyond commercial patterns or for first year fashion students.

38 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Art of Fashion Draping, February 26, 2006

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Jessica Stanton "J. Stanton" (Santa Rosa CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Art of Fashion Draping (Paperback)

Good information in general, but there a lot of instructions that are unclear and/or EXTREMELY poorly edited (spelling/grammar mistakes etc). The book itself is not good quality and pages are already starting to fall out of my barely-month-old copy.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very easy to follow, August 4, 2008

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Phoenix - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Art of Fashion Draping (3rd Edition) (Paperback)

I had the pleasure of meeting Mrs. Crawford and she is SO knowledgeable. THis book is a testament to her knowledge and experience in the fashion industry. I also recommend her patternmaking book as well (which I also own). This is one of my favorite references in my extensive art and design library. I definitely recommend it. It has a very easy to follow format and has lots of information not found in other draping books. I use this in conjunction with another book to get a full spectrum of techniques and inspiration for my own methods of draping.