Basics Fashion Design 06: Knitwear

by Sissons, Juliana

• ISBN13: 9782940411160
• ISBN10: 2940411166
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-10
• Publisher: Ava Pub Sa

Summary

Basics Fashion Design: Knitwear provides the reader with the fundamental skills, knowledge and inspiration to design and create their own innovative knitted textiles. Basics Fashion Design: Knitwear is a practical introduction to the use of knitwear in fashion design, richly illustrated with examples and easyto- follow diagrams. It describes the many varieties of yarn and fibre, their characteristics and their behaviour, from the traditional to the contemporary. It explains the relevant machinery and tools, and the types of work that can be produced on each. Basic techniques on domestic machines are discussed, leading to a section on how to create a knitting pattern. Details and trims are also examined, outlining embellishment, buttonholes and fastenings. The book also discusses the knitwear industry and offers useful information on the various career pathways. Interviews with international designers, each at a different level within the industry, provide further insight into the business as a whole.

Author Biography

 

Juliana Sissons designs for her own fashion label in knitwear, focusing on innovative sculptural approaches to shaping and pattern making. As a freelance knitwear designer and pattern cutter, her clients have included Alexander McQueen, Louis Vuitton, Antoni & Alison, Shelley Fox, Koji Tatsuno of Culture Shock, Hewitts of Savile Row, The BBC, The Victoria & Albert Museum, Andrew Logan and Britney Spears.

 

Juliana has lectured in fashion and textiles at the University of Loughborough and is currently a visiting lecturer at the London College of Fashion, Northbrook College, Hastings College of Art, Sussex Downs College, City College Brighton and tutors in pattern cutting at the University of Brighton. She has also recently delivered workshops at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark and continues to run regular workshops and demonstrations in haute couture, design and pattern cutting at the Victoria and Albert Museum, UK.