Fashion Source Book
Fashion Source Book by Kathryn McKelvey, published by Wiley on May 1, 2006, is a comprehensive resource featuring over 1,750 working drawings of garments and accessories. This edition provides detailed visual references that are essential for designers, showcasing historical, classical, ethnic, and inspirational examples. Each drawing is accurately named and described in an extensive glossary, addressing the visual information often missing from traditional fashion dictionaries.
Readers will find a diverse range of fashion poses for women, men, and children, complete with instructions for development and use as templates for personal illustrations. The copyright-free illustrations have been meticulously redrawn and enhanced with contemporary computer graphics techniques to effectively convey shape and detail. The book emphasizes authentic fabric representation, showcasing a variety of complex patterns, prints, and textures, making it a valuable tool for those interested in design, fashion, and accessories.
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This comprehensive source book sets out over 1750 working drawings of garments, accessories and their details, which can be used for reference while designing. Each drawing, which may be a historical, classical, ethnic or inspirational example, is correctly named and fully described in the extensive glossary, thus providing the visual information that is lacking from fashion dictionaries.
In addition, a range of useful fashion poses is provided for women, men and children (from birth to teenage) with instructions on how these may be developed by readers and used as templates for their own illustrations. All the illustrations are copyright-free, enabling readers to use and adapt as they wish.
All the illustrations have been redrawn traditionally then subjected to contemporary computer graphics techniques with a view to clearly communicating shape and detail. As much ‘fabric representation’ as possible has been illustrated, on relevant garments, to give an authentic feel and a variety of complex patterns, prints and textures employed using computer graphics tools.
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