Tailoring: The Classic Guide to Sewing the Perfect Jacket

Tailoring is the complete photo guide to sewing jackets and coats.

Written by sewing professionals, this book teaches the trusted, proven methods for sewing tailored jackets with impeccable details and perfect fit. Written for the intermediate sewer who wants to move on to more challenging projects, this book ensures success with detailed, step-by-step instructions, more than 400 photos, in-depth discussions about products and how to use them.

Tailoring offers guidance for every aspect of tailoring a jacket:

• Fitting and pattern alteration
• Fabrics and tools
• Interfacings
• Interlinings
• Seams and finishes
• Hand stitches
• Collars
• Pressing
• Topstitching
• Shaping shoulders
• Setting in sleeves
• Sewing pockets
• Vents, and
• Making perfect buttonholes

Author: Editors of Creative Publishing Internati
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Quarry Books
Published: 05/01/2011
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 10.90h x 8.20w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781589236097