Vintage Creative Pattern Skills Fashion Design Zamkoff Price Pink HC 1990 USA

Condition

Color-illustrated boards show light shelf wear with scattered surface scratching, Interior pages are clean, bright, and unmarked with a secure binding and no loose pages. No dust jacket present.

Description

Title: Creative Pattern Skills for Fashion Design.

Authors: Bernard Zamkoff and Jeanne Price; publisher: ARC Publications; series: F.I.T. Collection; format: English-language hardcover fashion design text for adult readers.

Genre/Topics: fashion design, patternmaking, apparel construction, sleeve and bodice variations, creative flat pattern drafting, and garment design for womenswear.

Content overview: introduces pattern-drafting techniques beginning with basic bodice and sleeve blocks, then develops more advanced silhouettes through design variations such as stylized armholes, kimono sleeves, hip-length patterns, and gusset sleeve constructions.

Organization and layout: chapters combine fashion figure sketches with labeled pattern pieces, step-by-step drafting diagrams, and concise instructions, using section headings like Kimono Sleeve with Stylized Armhole, Kimono Sleeve & Hip-Length Pattern, and The Gusset Sleeve.

Illustrations and features: includes black-and-white technical drawings, pattern diagrams with notches and grainlines, design-variation spreads, and fashion illustrations that show completed garments on the body to clarify fit and style.

Physical details: large-format casebound volume with color-illustrated pink and blue laminated boards and red-and-black interior typography printed on white stock as part of the F.I.T. Collection.

Bibliographic details: F.I.T. Collection; copyright 1990 by Fairchild Publications, Division of Capital Cities Media, Inc.; Standard Book Number: 87005-682-4; Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 89-82494; printed in the United States of America; original language English; nonfiction instructional reference.

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