The Peg Loom Book: How to build a peg loom and how to use it
This is a short and concise colour guide on building your own peg loom and then how to use it. As well as the materials tools and instructions needed to make your loom, the book details how to thread your loom with the warp thread, the basic weaving technique, how to join blocks of colour, finish loose ends, and make quick rag rugs. Also included are instructions on how to prepare raw fleece for peg loom weaving without having to spin it. This is a great guide for anyone interested in learning this ancient but wonderfully simple weaving method that can be taught to both adults and children. Peg looms are great tools for recycling old materials yarns and anything else that will pass between the pegs.This is a colour pictorial guide so although formatted for any kindle device, the bigger the screen the better.
Introduction to the Principles of Pattern Adaptation for Fashion Using Quarter Size Blocks
This is a short but detailed colour guide for anyone interested in getting to know how clothing patterns are developed from basic blocks. The majority of garments bought in shops are developed from very simple blocks with style variations added and tweaked along the way. Every fashion house has its own set of blocks from which their designs are developed. Any budding fashion designer who wants to produce patterns for their own designs needs to understand the concepts involved in adding and taking away fullness, how to introduce style variations and how to make it all come together in the construction process. The first step to achieving this is to work in quarter size (or quarter scale) and a link to download a set of basic bodice, sleeve and skirt blocks is included to get you started.
Quarter size blocks are a fabulous way to develop concepts and try out ideas in a format that is both inexpensive and manageable. Pattern adaptation can seem a little daunting at first glance but working in quarter size makes it easier to see how the adaptations affect other pattern pieces and provides a platform for ideas to flow much quicker than in larger formats. Since it is small and easily viewed, issues of scale and function are more obvious and once you get the hang of it, it can be oodles of fun. The only limit is your own imagination.
Written by the people who decided to manufacture half size mannequins out of frustration at a lack of a suitable product for their needs, this guide is intended as part of a series of booklets being developed with both the home sewer and student in mind to enhance their design skills and take their creativity to a new level.
This book, being a colour pictorial guide although formatted for all kindle devices works best on the larger tablets or PCs. To download the pattern block pdfs for print, you will need to use a PC.
Introduction to the Principles of Pattern Adaptation for Fashion Using Quarter Size Blocks (Kindle)
How to scale up half size sewing patterns
A short but detailed guide to show home sewers, students and budding fashion designers who use half scale mannequins and blocks how to scale up their finished designs to full size. It includes instructions for upscaling using a variety of methods both high and low tech. You will find instructions for how to use both Photoshop and the free graphics programme GIMP to upscale your half size designs. For those new to the concept of designing in half size this handy booklet both outlines the advantages of the process and solves the problem of how to get your mini designs into a useable format ready for construction. It includes a link to download to your PC a set of half size basic bodice, sleeve and skirt blocks in pdf format to get you started. Written by the people who decided to manufacture half size mannequins out of frustration at a lack of a suitable product for their needs, both the blocks and upscaling methods have been tested and used in their own professional practice. Part of a series of booklets being developed with both the home sewer and student in mind to enhance their design skills and take their creativity to a new level.
This book, being a colour pictorial guide although formatted for all kindle devices works best on the larger tablets or PCs. To download the pattern block pdfs for print, you will need to use a PC.