Complete Pleats
Subtitle: Pleating Techniques for Fashion, Architecture and Design
Publisher: King Publishing, Laurence
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781780676012
Subjects: Sewing; Textile crafts
Description: Complete Pleats explains how pleating systems can be stretched, compressed, flared, skewed, multiplied and mirrored, showing how from simple ideas, a huge number of original pleat forms can be created. Each technique is explained with a series of step-by-step photographs and line illustrations, enabling the designer to work through the basic principles of pleating and then adapt them to their specific needs. Complete Pleats also features about 40 examples of pleats from the worlds of architecture, fashion and product design. Paul Jackson has taught pleating techniques to students of Fashion Design for 30 years, in both paper and fabric. Complete Pleats is the definitive practical guide for anyone wishing to create and make pleats.