Basics Fashion Design 06: Knitwear
Basics Fashion Design 06: Knitwear by Juliana Sissons is a comprehensive guide to knitwear design, covering yarns, construction techniques, and creative development. This digital PDF edition offers instant access to essential knowledge for fashion students and designers.
Explore the fundamentals of knitwear design, from traditional techniques to modern innovations. This book provides practical skills and inspiration for creating innovative knitted textiles.
Book Overview
This textbook introduces the history of knitting, yarns, fibers, machinery, and tools. It guides readers through creative design development, project briefs, and practical skills such as knitting tension swatches, using domestic machines, and creating knitting patterns. The book also covers two- and three-dimensional design, textural and sculptural qualities, and details like embellishment and fastenings.
What You’ll Discover Inside
- Approach to knit: reinventing traditional knitting, yarns and fibers, construction of knit, developments in design and technology
- Creative development: the brief, research, design development, color, sculptural form, presentation and evaluation
- Construction through pattern and texture: tension swatch, basic techniques, lace, surface texture, patterned knits
- Construction through shape: partial knitting, flared shapes, increasing and decreasing, draping and shaping, creating a knitting pattern
- Details and trims: collars and neckbands, hems and edges, buttonholes and fastenings, hand-finishing techniques, embellishment
- Industry insights and resources
Why This Book Matters
This book is an essential resource for fashion design students and professionals seeking to understand knitwear design. It bridges traditional craftsmanship with contemporary technology, offering a solid foundation for creative exploration.
Book Details
| Format | |
|---|---|
| File Size | 23.9 MB |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 186 |
| Publisher | AVA Publishing SA |
| Publication Date | 2010 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-2-940411-16-0 |
Device Compatibility
This digital PDF can be read on any device that supports PDF files, including Kindle, tablets, desktop computers, and mobile phones. Instant download after purchase.
FAQ
Is this a physical book?
No, this is a digital PDF download. No physical copy will be shipped.
How do I access the book after purchase?
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Start your journey into knitwear design with this practical and inspiring guide.
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