clothing crafting

interested in lathing/constructing clothing, any good books for it? can't and don't want to go and get a degree for this, courses and other stuff too anything related to the topic may be of interest as well

be more specific what do you want to do whats a project you're thinking about/what experience/tools have you

>>10820 I have a small sewing machine and some needles and stuff I want to make like custom t-shirts, sweatshirts, pants etc The reason I don't wanna just order some stuff that has a conventional cut is because I want to learn how to construct my own cuts and design the clothes how I want to, from the very scratch I guess I have no experience though, the only thing I did was trying to draw some stuff on paper or on computer, but I don't really know how to make sketches that actually depict how the piece should be constructed and stuff, with technical info

>>10822 A good place to start is taking apart clothes you have (or a short thriftstore trip provides) and examining them. You should get an iron if you haven't one already. You can get an ironing board too or just lay a towel on a table and iron on that. You need this to lay fabric flat, as its very difficult to do anything nicely with wrinkled or creased fabric. If you stop at a fabric store they probably sell patterns, if you want to see how 'real' patterns are drawn. You can also look online but having a physical copy is nice in my opinion. A decent intro book is McCunn's 'How to Make Your Own Sewing Pattern'. It covers all the 'how' that you need for basic projects, though little of the 'why', but I think it was good. (and available on libgen). T shirts are really simple.

>>10823 thanks yeah I have an iron and a board for that what else could I need at start?

>>10824 I think thats about everything that I would say you *need* although there's other stuff that is nice for sure. Pins, facing, fabric obviously lol. Large paper if you want to draw patterns, straight edge/measuring tape (good to have one of the flexible ones), a good pencil for marking fabric, a good pair of scissors, list goes on I guess. French curves, more needles of different types. Buttons or snaps.....

>>10824 You need a seam ripper. It's how you take apart clothes or undo sewing and embroidery mistakes. If you want to do embroidery as well you need embroidery hoops. >>10825 I think you use tailor's chalk on fabric rather than a pencil. Also there is special scissors for this too meant to be ran flat on a table and very sharp.

>>10826 maybe (you) use chalk but I use a pencil seam ripper is a good one should have listed that

I guess you could start by customizing clothes from a thrift store or something like that, it will cost very little and might be hella fun.

>Patternmaking for fashion Design It has almost every pattern and technique you can get to ponder about. It's best read as an expositive reference though, don't expect to catch all the details just from it >Fundamentals of Garment Design (Bunka Series) I find the Bunka series to be quite informative and a nice point to start, overall. >Patternmaking for Underwear Design (Kristina Shin) If you're designing for women it has a nice coverage on lingerie, corsets and 'lingerie-adjacent' clothing, such as camisoles and slip ons (which for some reason don't show up as much in the latter books)