Pattern Magic

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The designs in these books are pretty unique: not exactly your everyday garments! The approach is definitely creative. It opens your mind to a completely different way of constructing patterns. It’s mostly flat-patternmaking, although many times it looks like one would have to drape to get such results. Thank you. 🙂 You can find these books in many bookshops, also online. I’m not sure which shop you have available where you live, but I think you should be able to find the best place for you by doing a google search. If I recall correctly, I bought mine from Book Depository. They ship internationally. Here’s a picture of a vanishing tie I made with some changes to the pattern. I think this way the pattern became more simple. I added stripes as well. Vanishing tie with stripes It’s a fairly well known series of patternmaking books from Japan. There are others, too, but what I love about these in particular, is that instead of just giving you the finished pattern to copy, the book explains how to draft it yourself! That way you have the possibility to make all kinds of different versions of your own using the various techniques explained.

These are really beautiful transformation, I love the nyokittos and the jungle flower. I don’t have any of the books neither have I tried any of these before. I’m now inspired to try some through your tutorials. Great job thereHaving served for many years as a professor at Bunka Fashion College, Tomoko Nakamichi currently delivers lectures and holds courses on pattern making both in her native Japan and internationally. This book brings together the results of the research she has carried out on garment patterns to help instruct her students. She is also the author of Pattern Magic, Pattern Magic 2 and Pattern Magic: Stretch Fabrics.

I’ve tried almost every design in this book and then I made my own versions of some of them by changing Take the pieces of a three-dimensional garment apart and flatten them, to get individual pattern pieces.Trang phục người Dao Đỏ trong giảng dạy thiết kế thời trang Ấn tượng cho sinh viên khoa Thiết kế thời trang (Luận văn thạc sĩ) Hello, did you ever try sewing the crater sleeve? I’ve been struggling to get the shape right and i was wondering if you’ve done it. How about you? Do you have the Pattern Magic -books? Have you made, or planned, any garments with the patterns? Links: Pattern Magic Stretch Fabrics is the third in the series of cult Japanese pattern cutting books, now translated into English. The new volume looks at…