The Essential Guide to Pattern Making - Andrew Richards and Jo Barnfield

The Essential Guide to Pattern Making is an extensive and clear guide for everyone who wants to become confident in designing and making their own patterns.

This handy book will become any dressmaker's pattern-designing bible: with accessible breakdowns on seams and darts, the order of making for any garment, how to consider your measurements from scratch, and developing your patterns with the inclusion of pockets, pleats, cuffs, and fastenings.

This comprehensive guide features tips and is 'bursting at the seams' with coloured illustrations to help lead you through.

Written by designer Andrew Richards, a previous designer for Valentino, and Jo Barnfield: an experienced Pattern Cutter and Technical Illustrator who has worked under the likes of Jasmine Di Milo, and has worked as a university lecturer in Fashion for years, most currently at the University of the West of England.