Lori A. Knowles worked for 13 years as a patternmaker and production manager for Marie Clayden Inc. in Los Gatos,CA, and taught for nine years at West Valley College in the department of Fashion Design and Apparel Technology. She has had a consuming interest in vintage clothing and costuming since childhood and possesses a large Edwardian and Victorian clothing collection that includes pieces dating back to the 1840s.

Appendices including sloper set, metric conversion chart, fractions of inches to decimal point chart, French curve, sample pattern chart, and sample specification sheets

Chapter 1: Introduction to Patternmaking
Chapter 2: Taking Measurements, Body Forms, Live Models
Chapter 3: The Basic Sloper Set
Chapter 4: Draping the Basic Sloper Two-dart Bodice and Two-dart Skirt
Chapter 5: Dart Manipulation for Bodices, Sleeves, Skirts and Pants
Chapter 6: Collar/Neckline Theory and Development
Chapter 7: Sleeve Theory and Development
Chapter 8: Dart Equivalents as Stylelines, Gathers, Pleats and Release Tucks
Chapter 9: Added Fullness/Flares and Added Ease
Chapter 10: The Torso Sloper and Its Uses
Chapter 11: The Jacket Sloper and Its Uses
Chapter 12: The Coat Sloper and Its Uses
Chapter 13: The Dartless Jean Sloper and Its Uses
Chapter 14: Special Body Forms, Live Models, Contoured Styles
Chapter 15: Patterns for Fabric Used on the Bias Grainline, Draping and Drafting
Chapter 16: Patterns for Fabrics that Stretch
Chapter 17: Patterns for Fabrics that Shrink
Chapter 18: Linings
Chapter 19: Knock-off Pattern Techniques
Chapter 20: Production Pattern Techniques

TEXT FEATURES:
-Measurement guide for junior's, misses' and women's sizes
-Size charts