Patternmaking for Underwear Design: 2nd Edition, Paperback

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• Author: Dr Kristina Shin

Patternmaking for Underwear Design 2nd Edition is a comprehensive patternmaking guide suitable for students, teachers and the industry. Step-by-step instruction is matched with superb illustrations, and all measurements are provided in both metric and Imperial scales. This book introduces common bra patternmaking methods widely used in the industry and offers the authors own innovative bra patternmaking method entitled Shin's method. This new method includes two intermediate blocks developed using the flat patternmaking concept. Shin's method enables novice patternmakers to create various bra designs from scratch with commercial fit quality. Patternmaking for Underwear Design 2nd edition elaborates the direct bra drafting further, thus the readers whose bra size is not 34B (75B) could draft their own bra according to their body measurements. Bra grading method is also added to the 2nd edition to enable the readers to grade the bra from 34B.