Complete pleats : pleating techniques for fashion, architecture and design /

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, enab...

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Main Author: Jackson, Paul, 1956- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Laurence King Publishing, 2015.
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Summary: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 forty examples of pleats from the worlds of architecture, fashion and product design. Paul Jackson has taught pleating techniques to students of Fashion Design for thirty years, in both paper and fabric. Complete Pleats is the definitive practical guide for anyone wishing to create and make pleats.
Physical Description:303 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm.
ISBN:1780676018
9781780676012