The Handsewn Wardrobe: A Complete Guide to Making Your Own Clothes from Patternmaking to the Finishing Stitches - Couverture rigide

Sonstroem, Louisa Owen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 163586626X ISBN 13 : 9781635866261

Editeur : Storey, 2025

Synopsis

Discover the slow, quiet joy of sewing clothes by hand in this one-of-kind guide.

Featuring step-by-step, illustrated instructions, this hand-sewing course-in-a-book shows you how to create nine wardrobe staples, including a t-shirt, button-up, and jeans, using simple hand-sewing and hand-stitching techniques. Author Louisa Owen Sonstroem shares her sustainable, empowering, and portable craft with gentle encouragement and guidance.

Sewists of all experience levels will learn how to:
- Draft a pattern to fit custom measurements.
- Select and cut fabric.
- Make nine pieces of clothing with simple hand-sewing techniques.
- Construct each garment without using a sewing machine.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Louisa Owen Sonstroem is a maker, illustrator, educator, and technical designer. She studied design and patternmaking at Fashion Institute of Technology and pattern drafting at RISD and MassArt. She has worked in the garment industry as a technical designer at Macy's and Eileen Fisher. She teaches hand sewing and patternmaking classes and is the founder of Patternmaking in Public Places (PIPP), a project seeking to democratize access to patternmaking skills. She is the author of the self-published book, Hand Sewing Clothing: A Guide.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Storey
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 163586626X
• ISBN 13: 9781635866261
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Early Learning Centre; distribution@wordunited.com ; ; Theodorstrasse 105; DUSSELDORF; 40472; Allemagne