Sew Any Fabric: A Quick Reference Guide to Fabrics from A to Z - Tapa blanda

Shaeffer, Claire B.

 
9780873496438: Sew Any Fabric: A Quick Reference Guide to Fabrics from A to Z
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ISBN 10: 0873496434 ISBN 13: 9780873496438
Editorial: Krause Publications, 2003

Sinopsis

Fabric Basics at Your Fingertips

Have you ever wished you could call an expert and ask for a five-minute explanation on the particulars of a fabric you are sewing?Claire Shaeffer provides this key information for 88 of today's most popular fabrics. In this handy, easy-to-follow reference, she guides you through all the basics while providing hints, tips, and suggestions base don her 20-plus years as a college instructor, pattern designers, and author.

In each concise chapter, Claire shares fabric facts, design ideas, workroom secrets, and her sewing checklist, as well as her sewability classification to advice you on the difficulty of sewing each fabric. Color photographs offer further ideas. The succeeding sections offer sewing techniques and advice on needles, threads, stabilizers, and interfacings. Claire's unique fabric/fiber dictionary cross-reference over 600 additional fabrics.

An invaluable reference for any one who sews, Sew Any Fabric provides practical, clear information for novices and inspiration for more experienced sewers who are looking for new ideas and techniques.

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Reseña del editor

This guide defines the sewbility of of the most common fabrics; compares similar fabrics; describes uses and design elements; and contains sidebars with specific information detailing essential suppliers, machine set-up and sewing basics.

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Editorial
Krause Publications
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0873496434
ISBN 13 
9780873496438
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
160
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