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It is what is says.. a DESIGNING book.......2004-04-27
DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK UNLESS YOU ALSO BUY " HOW TO DRAFT BASIC PATTERNS" BY THE SAME AUTHORS. This book is good because it teaches how to use the basic "slopers" (basic patterns) and manipulate them to create OTHER design styles. IT DOES NOT, however, describe in detail how to develop the basic sloper patterns. It skims over that part, showing only brief pictures and giving basic information about the basic slopers and assumes that you already have the slopers to create new flat pattern designs. "How to Draft Basic Patterns" is the companion book that gives detailed instructions( -almost too tediously detailed insturction...) on how to develop the basic sloper patterns. I personally think they made us design students buy these two books in school because it was a chance to cash in on students buying two textbooks for class. The authors could have put all the info of both books into one book- EASILY!! If you want a good ALL IN ONE book that teaches both basic sloper development and design style creation with the flat pattern, one which is also fairly easy to read and "get through" in order to develop your patterns, try the flat pattern written book by Helen Joseph Armstrong.
This is very good book.......2002-11-17
I'm a fashion design student and this book for is
very good. It's easy to understand. The images are really clear.By only seeing the image I can make the pattern quickly.
Designing Apparel through the Flat Pattern.......2000-12-25
you have no content list for the book. it is very neccessory and helpful to have a content list for each and every book. I can't make a buying decision without knowing what the book is talking about.
Designing Apparel.......2000-07-04
I bough this book expecting a more through coverage of apparel design. i was somewhat disappointed, mainly due to the fact that you have to buy the partner book, Pattern drafting, by the same authors in order to do anything with the instructions given. Pattern Making for Fashion Design By Helen Joseph Armstrong is a much better, easy to follow book for all levels of the pattern drafter and designer.
This is an excellent, easy-to-use reference........1998-04-02
I highly recommend this book to anyone who drafts patterns, from beginner to expert. Not only can one use this information for current styles, but can also apply these techniques for historic and fantasy costume. The text is straightforward and easy to follow, and the illustrations are simple and clearly marked. Enjoy!
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Flat Pattern Cutting and Modeling for Fashion
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Cosmatesque Ornament: Flat Polychrome Geometric Patterns in Architecture
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Italian Pavements: Patterns in Space
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Book Description
A richly illustrated study of architectural ornament in the late Middle Ages. This unique study of the distinctive colorful geometric mosaics created in hundreds of late medieval buildings in Rome and environs (and such far-flung locations as Westminster Abbey) by a group of artisans called the Cosmati is a treasure trove of information and pattern for art and architectural historians and designers in every medium. 600 color and black-and-white illustrations.
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Poor quality photos.......2004-11-19
A thorough and focused academic treatise on Cosmati tiling. Living in Rome I was interested in the designs, so I bought this book when it was newly published because it's the only one on the subject. Unfortunately, many of the color photos (taken by the author while a student) have a yellow cast are so dark you can hardly see the details; a few are even out of focus. Such a shame after so much effort of research and expense of printing, that a professional photographer/photo editor was not used. For my purposes I found it disappointing, especially at the list price.
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One of the more difficult aspects of a designer 's training is learning how to create patterns that make full use of the characteristics of individual fabrics. With an ever increasing range of fabrics available to the designer, an understanding of the relationship between fabric, form and pattern shape is now probably the most important skill a designer has to acquire.This book discusses the factors that need to be taken into consideration and offers a unique and practical method for solving problems. Its approach to design and flat pattern cutting is based on the appraisal of the fabric (according to a scale of five for each of five fabric characteristics - weight, thickness, sheer, drape and stretch) and body shape. The book is lavishly illustrated and makes use of numerous practical examples.
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Nice Book, if a Bit Outdated.......2003-08-30
This book is really nice, very informative, laid-out well and its information is very clear and fairly easy to follow. While it's a textbook, and therefore its primary audience is students of design, a skilled sewer will find this book to be very helpful nontheless. It's definitely for the beginner pattern-maker, and that's why it's successful not only as a text book but as a simple instruction book as well.
It outlines a brief (i.e. a few paragraphs) history of pattern making. Then it outlines all the tools (oak tag, pattern paper, french curves, hip curves etc.) of pattern making and how those tools are used. Next the book discusses darts, gathers and other ways to fit and add fullness to garments. After these introductions to pattern-making and fitting, MacDonald addresses the basics of EVERY TYPE of garment you will ever want to make! Seriously.
She addresses bodices, variations on bodices, darting for different figures, and then goes on to sleeves (variations on sleeves include cowl, raglan, kimono, lantern, leg o mutton and more!). She addresses variations and fitting techniques for the following: bodices, sleeves, necklines, pants, shorts, skirts (every skirt you've ever heard of and some you haven't!), tunics and dresses, collars, cuffs and closures!
While some of the techniques are a little outdated fashion-wise, (lantern sleeves and sweet-heart necklines - yuck!) the important thing is that it teaches you how to make EVERYTHING which is great experience nonetheless. And once you're familiar with pattern making for the various pieces - you can use what you've learned to make EXACTLY what you want!
This is, in short, a very thorough and clear book.
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This concise book delivers superb coverage of how to design and make garments ranging from evening dresses to sleepwear.
KEY TOPICS: This book contains special sections on pattern-making for men's, boys', and girls' clothing, plus many useful tools such as a checklist for completing patterns and design inspiration sheets. Includes important discussions about the use of Computer Assisted Design (CAD), and features a new appendix that includes a list of computer software currently being used in today's fashion market. For every future professional in the apparel or fashion industry.
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Very Helpful.......2007-02-12
I needed this book for a Flat Pattern class that I'm taking, and this book has been so helpful in explaining with step-by-step guides how to alter basic style into anything that I want. This book is very helpful for people who are interested in becoming fashion designers. You must know how to alter clothes and what your end result will look like. I highly recomend this book.
basic.......2006-07-03
The book starts with the assumption that the reader already has a "commercial basic pattern that has previously been altered to fit the individual". (found in the introduction) To that effect, it commences to show the reader how to ALTER the pattern into different styles to suit the reader. It's not meant to show you how to create a pattern from scratch. Compared to other books I checked out at the library, this was very concise with easy to follow illustrations. I thought it was a great book because it really aided me in making my own patterns. I'm pretty petite, so it's hard to find patterns in my size. Once I found a junior pattern that fit me (which was insanely hard), I used the book to alter the dimensions to create other looks that I would otherwise not be able to find commercial patterns for.
Incidentally a good book for making patterns from scratch is "Basic Pattern Skills For Fashion Design." It starts off using the drape method to get the pattern then proceeds to the flat method for alterations.
I liked learning pattern making with this book........2005-10-10
I liked learning pattern making with this book. It doesn't illustrate how to draft a pattern from scratch like some other books, my favorite being Dorothy Moore's book for that. I used the eighth scale patterns in the book, made a zillion of them, and used those little patterns for "pattern labs" for each example and each style. I took out the spiral binding and put it in a big three ring binder and taped my pattern over each completed style with drafting tape. I learned slash and spread and the pivoting method with great ease thanks to this book.
Not what you think........2003-07-10
This book is written from the viewpoint that you already have a perfectly fitting bodice pattern, which you created from a store bought pattern. It gives you different style ideas, but no detailed step-by-step instructions. For instance, they tell you to remove the waist dart by combining it with the side dart.They show you a drawing, but no detailed instructions. I've been making patterns for 6 years, and I remember starting out totally confused about the whole moving darts issue. It took me an entire school semester to figure it out. This book is confused. It makes you design using store bought patterns (beginners stuff), then gives you vague directions that only a professional could understand. Don't waste you money.
Beginners Bible.......2002-07-15
I received this book when I was first beginning to experiment in drafting my own patterns, and I will tell you that this book is worth every penny if you want to be a fashion designer or just want to sew your own clothing ideas. Excellent for beginners, as it is more pattern manipulation (changing a commercial -store bought- pattern to your own design, very easy). If you are quite advanced (ie.Already know how to change patterns) this might not be the best book for you, as you might find it a little elementary to your knowledge, but can be a great reference from time to time when you are trying to remember how to change those pesky bust darts into a mid-yoke.
A must have for all who dare to push yourselfs beyond the boundaries of the boring old Simplicity's and Vogue's!!
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The first complete account of the role of published plans in the building of American homes.
Many homes across America have designs based on plans taken from pattern books or mail-order catalogs. In Houses from Books, Daniel D. Reiff traces the history of published plans and offers the first comprehensive survey of their influence on the structure and the style of American houses from 1738 to 1950. Houses from Books shows that architectural publications, from Palladio's I Quattro Libri to Aladdin's Readi-Cut Homes, played a decisive role in every aspect of American domestic building. Reiff discusses the people and the firms who produced the books as well as the ways in which builders and architects adapted the designs in communities throughout the country. His book also offers a wide-ranging analysis of the economic and social conditions shaping American building practices.
As architectural publication developed and grew more sophisticated, it played an increasingly prominent part in the design and the construction of domestic buildings. In villages and small towns, which often did not have professional architects, the publications became basic resources for carpenters and builders at all levels of expertise. Through the use of published designs, they were able to choose among a variety of plans, styles, and individual motifs and engage in a fruitful dialogue with past and present architects. Houses from Books reconstructs this dialogue by examining the links between the published designs and the houses themselves.
Reiff's book will be indispensable to architectural historians, architects, preservationists, and regional historians. Realtors and homeowners will also find it of great interest. A catalog at the end of the book can function as a guide for those attempting to locate a model and a date for a particular design. Houses from Books contains a wealth of photographs, many by the author, that enhance its importance as a history and guide.
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An Exhaustive Source.......2001-07-22
This is the most exhaustive source I have come accross in regards to the study of pattern books and catologue books. Reiff traces the devlopment of pattern books first coming from Europe (Palladio, Serlio) and then evolving into Armerican Pattern Books (Asher Benjamin, A. J. Downing) and finally the history of plan catalogues by architects, lumber yards and majot retailors, such as Sears Reobuck. The book shows how houses built from these sources sometimes deviated from their plans. Also, many times the plan books merely influenced builders who drew their own plans more or less pirated from these sources. Reiff traces many built examples of houses that have their roots in these sources - sometimes litterally and other times suggestively.
Houses from books also contains an interesting chapter on the development and influence of architectural journals. There is also a chapter of the influence of pattern books and catologue houses in an actual town using the authors home town of Fredonia, New York.
In many ways this is a wonderful book, and if there is one source book I would recommend for the study of these topics, this would be it. My only critisism is that the reading can at time be laborious. The author has a tendancy to describe subtle nuances of houses in great detail. Sometimes an illustration accompanies the text, other times there is none. Because of this I often found myself a bit frustrated trying to figure out just what the author is trying to get accross. That set asside, it is still an excellent, scholarly work. The bonus feature of this book is its eight Appendices that contain listings of pattern and catologue books by companies, individuals, construction details, etc. This is an invaluable source for the student of vernacular architecture.
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The Airmen: The Story of American Fliers in World War II
Edwin Palmer Hoyt
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"Airmen" Disappoints.......2002-01-01
This book has some interesting anecdotes of pilot experiences, and for that reason I was able to read the book to the end. Unfortunately, the author writes with the ability of an average high school kid, which made the book frustrating to read.
Inaccuracies in the book could be detrimental to anyone studying World War Two history. For example, Hoyt several times indicates that Doolittle's bomber raid on Japan occurred in 1943, not 1942:
"The Americans believed an aircraft carrier might safely approach the Japanese shores to a point about 500 miles out and launch planes which could then strike the Japanese home islands.....So in the winter of 1942 the Joint Chiefs of Staff puzzled over the problem...."
"The training was carried out in the winter and early spring of 1943 at an auxiliary airfield near Eglin Field, Florida."
Also, Hoyt no doubt will offend many veterans of the vicious battle of Peleliu in the Palau Islands when he says, "So in September the Americans invaded Palau, to find virtually no Japanese in situ."
More of Hoyt's pithy writing:
"The next step was a dress rehearsal for an amphibious landing, conducted off the island of Koro in the Fijis. It was very successful. The marines were supposed to go ashore, but most of them never made it over the coral reef."
"In January the Japanese reinforced the Lae garrison with considerable success, losing two of five transports....."
"When, on December 10, fighters and bombers attacked the approaching convoy in Lingayen Gulf, and all suffered losses, as indicated."
"The American and British air forces operated with close cooperation until the end of the North African campaign."
Responsibility for some of the inaccuracies and poor writing must go to the publisher, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, which should be ashamed for publishing a book in such a condition.
Book Description
Even people with little interest in birds will stop in their tracks at the sight of a hawk soaring overhead or a falcon perched on a window ledge. Birds of prey have an aura that few other creatures have. In the acclaimed Hawks in Flight, Pete Dunne showed what birds of prey look like. In The Wind Masters, he shows what it is like to be a bird of prey. He takes us inside the lives and minds of all thirty-four species of diurnal raptors found in North America--hawks, falcons, eagles, vultures, the osprey, and the harrier--and shows us how each bird sees the world, hunts its prey, finds and courts its mate, rears its young, grows up, grows old, and dies. Vividly written, and beautifully illustrated by David Sibley, The Wind Masters is a brilliant work of narrative natural history in the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's The Wind Birds and Barry Lopez's Of Wolves and Men.
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Gripping tales of life and death.......2007-02-18
Thirty-three birds of prey - one to a chapter - star in this book that is a blend of natural history, fast-paced adventure, and reflections on life and death. In "The Wind Masters," Pete Dunne introduces each of North America's diurnal raptors by telling a story in the life of an individual bird (from the author's imagination, of course, but biologically accurate). So vivid are these introductions that they will not soon be forgotten.
I was shocked by the gruesome, painful details described in some of the stories. Many do not have happy endings. A sharp-shinned hawk, pursuing a sparrow, slams into a glass window, and the chapter ends with her on the verge of succumbing to a brain haemorrhage. A young osprey sinks her talons into a huge fish that pulls her under the water to her death. A golden eagle slowly succumbs to lead poisoning, struggling to eat but finding her digestive system paralyzed, and choking as her stomach fills with rotten food.
But, the lives of raptors abound in exhilarating moments too, and it is these upon which Dunne focuses most of all. An arctic Gyrfalcon searches the moonlit landscape to find his mate who, he knows by instinct, has just returned from migration. A common black-hawk hunts in a stream by dangling her wing-tip in the water, attracting fish who think it is a struggling insect. A peregrine falcon successfully defends her nest from a marauding wolverine. And a group of broad-winged hawks ride thermals to travel over two hundred miles without a flapping a wing. Dunne highlights the adaptations of each raptor that make it perfectly suited to its life in the air, hence the title "The Wind Masters."
The woodcuts by David Allen Sibley are superb. Each chapter contains a head portrait of the bird on the title page, as well as a full-page illustration of the bird in its habitat later in the chapter. That's 66 illustrations in all!
I greatly enjoyed this book, and its striking images will stay with me for a long time. The only reason I withheld the fifth star is that I found some elements of the writing a bit awkward in places - such as anthropomorphism that felt strained, or long parenthetical facts that interrupted the flow of the story. Overall, though, Dunne has succeeded admirably at blending biological detail with fast-paced narrative. This is a unique and beautiful book that I would recommend to anyone who enjoys natural history.
An Engaging Account of Raptor Life.......2006-10-03
The Wind Masters, by Pete Dunne, is a delightfully charming little book. His central conceit is unique--he wants to blend storytelling with didacticism, conveying dry fact of hawk existence with emotional anecdote.
In this, he succeeds admirably.
In each of the short stories in The Wind Masters--one for each resident raptor species in the United States--Dunne manages to convey pertinent factual information about the story as a whole, while still telling tales of the trials and tribulations of individual birds. He marries science and fiction with admirable skill; I certainly feel as if I know more about the birds after reading these stories.
However, the quality of the stories as stand alone works of fiction suffers from this. Though there are innumerable moments of literary magic, Dunne's prose is at times clunky and heavy-handed, and sometimes his desire to include the information interrupts the otherwise smooth narrative flow of the story. The reader cannot forget that one of the primary purposes of this book is to inform, not just enchant. Taken out of the context of the book as a whole, these would seem much poorer for their scientific fact.
Of course, these stories aren't meant to be taken out of context, and considering their purpose, they are often truly are astounding. Dunne's anthropormorphization of these birds--the translation of their behavior into human thought, human motive--is interesting at the worst and truly breathtaking at the best. He shies away from no topic in the course of his book, and every aspect of raptor life is covered, from birth to death. In fact, death is not glossed over at all; Dunne is not afraid to remind the reader that yes, most young animals die, and yes, many raptor deaths are caused, in some way, by humans. Some of his most moving stories are the ones highlighting a bird's death.
Dunne also does an excellent job in exemplifying the similarities and differences that tie together the various raptor species. We see what traits they share and learn what characteristics set them apart.
All in all, though, and especially considering his purpose in writing it, Dunne's book is excellent. It does exactly what it set out to do, and does it with grace and style. I would heartily recommend this to anyone who is a fan of birds of prey, or simply interested in getting into the heads of these fascinating, intelligent creatures. Believe me, you won't get another opportunity like this one, short of going out and working with the birds themselves.
Short, informational stories that are quite entertaining.......2005-08-19
The Wind Masters is a collection of 34 short stories (most only about 3-5 pages) that are meant to inform the reader about the habit and behavior of the North American birds of prey (Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, Vultures, etc..).
I was very pleasantly suprised to discover how well Dunne managed to include so much information while telling an entertaining vignette. It seems like this would be a very good book for beginning birders to learn about raptors before reading something more substantial. It offers very basic information (range, eating habits, simple ID characteristics) that you could get elsewhere but would not be able to absorb the information as well.
Highly Recommended.
A Modern Fable.......2003-07-16
Dunne's unusual book hovers in a crosswind. Parts natural history and literate essay; parts short fiction and pure fable, The Wind Masters imagines a new way into the minds of North American raptors. Through a series of brief narratives, one for each native species, Dunne introduces the birds of prey as individuals - moreover, as beings of thought, emotion and opinion. For a falconer prone to think of some birds as persons, it is a familiar yet still startling flight of fancy.
To Dunne's eye, the Northern Goshawk fairly gloats atop her recent kill, a snowshoe hare. She feels a satisfaction any hunter might in the successful execution of her skill and power, and in the anticipation of a good meal; as the author notes, "Who can say this isn't so?" A hunter himself, and a long-time student of raptors in the wild, Dunne's gripping portrait of a master assassin bears truth.
Were each of his subjects equally or solely lauded for their hunting prowess, Dunne's work might comprise a long cliché or worse, a sort of book-length perpetuation of negative raptor stereotypes. But it does neither. What Dunne finds worth noting of each species reflects a careful sifting of scientific fact and personal observation; he tries to find the essence of each bird and how each uniquely suits its niche. He attempts, through the form of the short story, to capture a similar holistic image of our predatory birds that was the focus of his earlier, more utilitarian Hawks in Flight. This might be a hopeless conceit for a writer of lesser skill, but Dunne manages it well and often beautifully.
"The Gray Hawk remained until just before dark and then departed - a hungry gray shadow flying swiftly and directly to roost. It wasn't lack of skill that had defeated his efforts to feed. It was the temperatures that had turned his reptilian prey to stone and sent the birds to early roosts. It was circumstance and bad luck - the luck of a raptor."
Every facet of a raptor's life, from the struggle to escape the egg to the peril of migration and the battle for breeding rights finds illustration through the individual stories. No single account hopes to convey every part of that bird's natural history; rather the commonalities between all raptors' lives are distributed throughout the balance of the book. Fittingly, the many ways our raptors die receive as much notice as do the ways they live. Sometimes a death provides the focus for the story.
"The eagle managed to stand until the raven completed his retreat. Then, surrendering to gravity, she slumped to her booted tarsi and fell forward until her emaciated keel touched the earth. Only the opened wings, spread like stabilizing outriggers, prevented the bird from falling to her side."
Rarely do Dunne's descriptions approach simple sentimentality or fall prey to the temptation of polemics. Each chapter can stand alone as a work of good craftsmanship and a careful exposition of story; in each a fair and informed picture appears of a raptor as an individual and a species unique. But the implication of man's effects, mostly negative, finds expression everywhere. In the oldest tradition of the fable, Dunne artfully imbues his narratives with cautionary, sometimes pointed details illustrating the harm our actions (and inaction) may bring. Whether or not the reader finds these details an intrusion or an obstruction, they are certainly part of every raptor's life and of the truth Dunne hopes to reveal.
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