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FLAT PATTERN DESIGN
Paper Code:
MFT-225
Credits:
3
Contact Hours:
45.00
Max. Marks:
100.00
Objective:
To acquaint students with the techniques of flat pattern making.
To introduce students to the concepts of draping.
9.00
Unit I:
Course Content:
- Introduction to techniques in pattern making 04 hrs
- Drafting
- Flat Pattern Method
- Draping
- Drafting of trousers & skirt block 05 hrs
- Adaptations of basic blocks of skirt –flared, gored, circular 05 hrs
- Flat pattern design on bodice block through: 25 hrs
- Dart manipulation: Moving, Dividing and combining darts by pivot & slash and spread.
- Converting dart into: Seam lines, Gathers, Pleats, Tucks, and Yokes.
- Skirt Dart manipulation 10 hrs
- Moving basic dart by slash and pivot method
- Decorative darts
- Darts, tucks and pleats
- Converting dart to flare
- Style lines and yokes
Introduction to Grading 26 hrs
- Terminology
- Methods of grading- Tracks and Stack Method
- Grading children & women basic bodice, sleeve and skirt blocks various sizes.
Preparation of Portfolio
- Preparing pattern and grading of one torso design
Essential Readings:
- Relis, Nurie., & Jaffe, Hilde., Draping for fashion Design, Prentice Hall career & Technology, New Jersey.1993
- Armstrong, J., Draping for Fashion Design, Fair child Publications ,New York.2004
References:
- Hanford, Jack. Professional Pattern Grading: for Women”s, Men’s and Children’s
- Apparel, Fairchild Publications, New York. 2003.
- Pamela, C. Stringer., (1995). Pattern Drafting for Dress Making, Augustan Publishers & Distributors, Delhi.
- Holman., Pattern Cutting Made Easy: A step by step Introduction, Om Publications
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