Imagine Learning A Lifetime Of Sewing Pattern Design Techniques

Fashion appeals to people of all ages. It is one field that is a very necessary part of every body. Clothes make personalities and impressions. They help to enhance a person’s effect on other people. They even offer the solace of retail therapy!!

Jokes apart, you cannot deny the effect that a good wardrobe has on a person’s life. What is even more important is that it makes a very well paid career option.

Fashion design is a trade and like all trades it has some rules and tools that make it easier. Any person with a creative bend of mind and an eye for fashion can take it up as a career but to be successful he will have to learn the tricks of this trade.
• Sewing Patterns: it is the most basic tool of the fashion design. Patterns are the outline or draft on which the whole design is based. In fact they are necessary for any successful design.
• Tools of pattern making: there are many tools available in the market that makes your pattern making experience enjoyable. The designers curve helps in designing the sleeves and armholes etc. The tailors curve helps in designing the pant legs, seams etc. The simflex sewing gauge for accurate measurements for the proper execution of the designs. The lutterloh system or the golden rule is the essential tool for every pattern maker. It contains measuring tape, pins, adhesive tapes, instruction manuals and a number of pattern design templates. The lutterloh system can be customised according to every person’s needs.
• Classes and workshops: there are a number of classes and workshops that can help the interested designer intending to begin in this field. Our country has some of the finest fashion design institutes that offer a variety of courses on the fields of design. There are also a variety of crash courses on offer in these institutes. Many cities have workshops organised by designers or former design students who are willing to impart the technical knowledge of designing. A person can also enrol for online courses or learn from video tutorials of pattern making.

Designing is about creating and a creation is incomplete without the actual knowledge of the process. These are technologically advanced times. Therefore, apart from the already mentioned tools there is also a variety of soft wares that help in this field. The cad software or other drawing soft wares help in designing more accurately.

A person should have working knowledge of these tools and that will enrich him with the knowledge of a lifetime’s worth of pattern designs. This is a treasure in itself which he can then share with the world through his creations.