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Pattern Making for Fashion Design - Beginner Course

How to use Pattern Making Principals and Techniques to draft patterns for your original fashion design ideas.
Length Under 3 weeks
Effort 1 hour per week
Price $ 15
Subject Design, Art
Level Beginner
Languages English
Video Transcripts None

VIDEOS + DEMOS: In this course students will learn:

  • Basic Principles of pattern-making such as Dart Manipulation and Added Fullness and Contour.

  • Students will learn techniques such as Pivoting and Slash-and-Spread.

  • New terminology such as Slopers and Blocks and Darts, Pleats, Tucks, Yokes, Princess Seams, Shirring, Apex, Notches.

  • Where pattern come from: draping muslin bodice on dress form.

  • Drafting Princess Seams.

  • Drafting an A-Line skirt.

  • Drafting Skirt Yokes and adding fullness to skirt.

  • Grainlines and Pattern Labeling.

  • Trueing Darts.

  • Tools necessary for drafting patterns.

All lectures delivered by VIDEO with detailed DEMOS of the applied techniques.

Who this course is for:
  • Students should have a strong interest in Fashion Design.
  • Students eager to learn how to draft patterns so that they can (potentially) design and cut and sew their own clothes.

What you'll learn

  • Pattern Making for Fashion Designers. This is a beginner course on how to draft patterns, and some draping.

  • Students will learn the Principals of Pattern Drafting (Dart Manipulation, Added Fullness, Contour).

  • Students will learn Techniques such as Pivoting and Slash-and-Spread.

  • Students will learn to draft an A-Line Skirt.

  • Students will learn to draft a Yoke unto a skirt and Add Fullness to the skirt.

  • Students will learn how to draft Princess Stylelines/Seams. And Darts, Pleats, Tucks.

  • They will learn Grainlines and how to label Patterns. Including Notches and Seam Allowance.

Course syllabus

Introduction Session #3: Session #4: Principal of Pivot (or Pivoting Session #5: Using Slash-and-Spread Session #6: Creating a Yoke. Session #7: Princess Lines

Meet the instructors

Nino Via

Fashion Design Instructor - Expert Fashion Consultant/Coach

My passion is to inspire and empower people to live the best version of themselves. Using fashion as a vehicle to educate and develop themselves and striving for excellence.

A fashion industry expert -- From concept to completion: From Vision Board to Pattern Drafting, to Tech Packs, to Social Media.

~~~ As Assistant Creative Director of the Fashion Design program at FIDM (Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, LA) all my fashion design skills were put into practice.

~~~ As a Consultant for SAMSUNG C&T America, I have the opportunity to introduce new Brands to Samsung's infinite available resources to elevate Brands to global visibility.

~~~ Born and raised in ROME (Italy), speaking Italian was an asset while working at RALPH LAUREN, when responsibilities included supervising samples manufactured in Italy.