Clone Your Clothes - Claire-Louise Hardie

For home dressmakers looking to recreate the pieces they reach for most, Clone Your Clothes by Claire-Louise Hardie is a practical paperback guide to remaking wardrobe favourites without unpicking and damaging the originals. It explains how to create your own dressmaking patterns using a combination of tracing and measuring techniques, so you can remake well-fitting garments again and again in different fabrics.

Drawing on the author’s experience working in costume departments for film and television, the book teaches several approaches to pattern making. You’ll learn Direct Measurement for simpler shapes, Over Draping for more complex details such as a waterfall frill or a ruched panel, and a Tracing method suited to a wide range of clothing styles. The “Cloning School” section breaks down each technique with step-by-step instructions and photography, while “Design School” shows how to apply the skills to specific garments including trousers, a simple dress, a gathered skirt, a shirt and a camisole top. Guidance on choosing fabrics and tools, plus ideas for adapting designs, helps you build new pieces from patterns taken from best-loved clothes.

Key features

• Step-by-step instructions with photography
• Covers Direct Measurement, Over Draping and Tracing methods
• Includes example garments to demonstrate each technique
• Design School projects: trousers, simple dress, gathered skirt, shirt and camisole top
• Advice on choosing fabrics and tools
• ISBN: 9781446312759

Specifications

• Author: Claire-Louise Hardie
• Subtitle: Pattern-making and sewing techniques to recreate your best-loved clothes
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 128
• Publisher: David & Charles
• Publication date: 13 August 2024
• Illustrations: 256 colour illustrations

Sizing

210 x 273 mm

Rackhams Reference : MGV3HFL453