Introduction to Moulage for Fashion Design
Joints and drawstring 1
A course by Isabel Sánchez , Designer
About the video: Joints and drawstring 1
Overview
“In this lesson I will teach you how to assemble and sew the front and back pieces by closing the sleeves. We will do it by starting to make purses and always using the iron to leave the perfect shirt.”
In this video lesson Isabel Sánchez addresses the topic: Joints and drawstring 1, 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
“Joints and drawstrings In this lesson we are going to see how to join all the pieces that we have cut to have our blouse. Specifically, we are going to start joining back and front. We could finish this blouse in several ways. It could be cleaning the interior with an overlocker. It could be with a normal machine doing a zigzag. There is another alternative, which is the one I have chosen, which is to do a French seam. In particular, it seems to me that it is the cleanest and the most beautiful. It is usually sewn on the wrong side. Here with French couture we invert everything. We are goin...”
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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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