Introduction to Moulage for Fashion Design
The garment
A course by Isabel Sánchez , Designer
About the video: The garment
Overview
“In this lesson we will prepare the final fabric and we will go on to marking and cutting our blouse with all the references and poise. We are going to see how our garment takes shape; we are already closer to the final result.”
In this video lesson Isabel Sánchez addresses the topic: The garment, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Moulage for Fashion Design. Learn to shape clothes directly on a mannequin and turn them into patterns for future replicas.
Partial transcription of the video
“The garment We will now go on to cut the patterns in fabric. The fabric I have folded, I folded it in half because it is much more accurate and much more comfortable to work with. I have one side and the other side. Here at the moment I have the pattern of the striker. And before anything else, I will calculate more or less the length that I will need. I will extract it and thus I am not handling with all my tissue. I present it here like this and I say, I will give a margin. And short. You see that I left enough margin. As you practice, you can adjust much more. In the beginning we will no...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Moulage for Fashion Design
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Category
Craft, Fashion -
Areas
Fashion Design, Patternmaking & Dressmaking, Sewing

Isabel Sánchez
A course by Isabel Sánchez
Isabel Sanchéz has dedicated herself to the fashion world for over 40 years. Since the late '80s she has worked alongside and collaborated with some of Spain's most renowned designers like Devota & Lomba, Jesús del Pozo, and Agatha Ruiz de la Prada.
She began combining her design studio collaborations with teaching in 1999, and has since worked at the University of Navarra, the European University of Madrid, and the IED (Istituto Europeo di Design), to name just a few, giving classes on the technical side of dressmaking, pattern design, and draping.
In 2011, she published the book Little Black Dress, which was translated into several languages. The same year, she opened her studio, Laboratorio de Proyectos, where she works on runway collections and any other project requiring the study of fabric volume and behavior.
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