Thursday, 3 October 2013

1950's Knitting - Cropped Jacket & Angora Collar

Cropped Jacket
Housewife magazine November 1954
34-36" Bust



Soft & Warm Angora Collar
Housewife Magazine November 1954


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Thursday, 26 September 2013

1950's Sewing - Fundamentals of Pattern making for Women’s Apparel Book I and 2

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Fundamentals of Pattern making for Women’s Apparel Book I:
 Foundation Patterns
Esther Kaplan Pivnick Revised 1955

Fundamentals of Pattern making for Women’s Apparel Book II:
 Style Patterns
Esther Kaplan Pivnick Revised 1958


1940's Sewing - Dress Design Draping and Flat Pattern Making


Free PDF 1940's Sewing - Dress Design Draping and Flat Pattern Making 1948

Dress Design Draping and Flat Pattern Making
Marion S. Hillhouse and Evelyn A. Mansfield 1948

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Wednesday, 25 September 2013

1930's Sewing - Draping and Dress Design Booklets

Draping and Dress Design 1935 free pdf
Draping and Dress Design 1935
free pdf Designing By Draping 1936
Designing By Draping 1936
Both of these booklets are really fascinating and give us a fabulous insight in to the way designers created those liquid sweeping gowns of the 30's!

Kindly reproduced by Evie from La Couturiere Dimanche