Couture Sewing Techniques, Revised and Updated Author: Claire B. Shaeffer | Language: English | ISBN:
1600853358 | Format: PDF
Couture Sewing Techniques, Revised and Updated Description
Review
With clarity and a profound respect for technique and application, Claire Shaeffer brings one into an haute-couture atelier, where the realm of possibility has no boundaries. She imparts the secrets of hand-work that allow a garment to become weightless, a wisp of dimension for the wearer. She pays homage to the gods of the craft and bows to the church of haute couture. --Ralph Rucci, designer
As every Vogue Patterns reader knows, Claire Shaeffer can unravel couture garment construction better than anyone, and her revised and updated version of Couture Sewing Techniques is the authoritative guide to haute couture techniques In it, Shaeffer demystifies designer garments and gives you the confidence to try the techniques and practiced in the ateliers of the haute couture. A must-have for all serious sewers. –Vogue Patterns
About the Author
Claire Shaeffer is an acclaimed couture designer and recognized expert in the history of fashion. She gives twice-yearly workshops to select few, and has published many books on the topic of couture techniques including the first edition of Couture Sewing Techniques, which has sold more than 80,000 copies.
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- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Taunton Press; Second Edition edition (May 24, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1600853358
- ISBN-13: 978-1600853357
- Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
1. Better layout:
The layout is so much better! Text is set in different colors to differentiate the content, tips, pull-out boxes, blurbs. This dramatically improves the book navigation!
2. More Content:
over thirty more pages of content added as a result of the author's recent research.
3. More images:
Claire added more images to illustrate instructions, and they are invaluable!
4. Improved instructions:
Clearly marked step-by-step instructions for all processes of couture construction. If you own the previous edition, you know how the instructions were presented in run-on paragraphs making it difficult to use the book as a quick reference.
5. More how-to illustrations:
6. Claire's Hints:Excellent short tips, mostly absent in the previous edition.
7. contemporary couture techniques from the worksrooms of Ralph Rucci and James Galanos
8. techniques by Mainbocher and Charles Frederick Worth: Shaeffer says in her acknowledgements that she worked on a research project that focused on Mainbocher and Worth. She seems to have added some of the new techniques as a result of this research
9. New chapter "Designing with Fabric": Shaeffer introduced this chapter to demonstrate "a variety of design ideas and specific techniques to inspire you to use fabrics more creatively". A master of observation, Claire describes techniques used in haute couture garments by Antonio Canovas del Castilo, Hubert de Givenchy, Chanel, Worth, Hanae Mori, I. Magnin, Balenciaga, Victor Edelstein, These techniques are not necessarily obvious, but so easy to learn and to apply in your own garments.
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