Complete Pleats: Pleating Techniques for Fashion, Architecture, Design
Sep 2015 · Hachette UK
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About this ebook
Paul Jackson's major new title Complete Pleats is the most comprehensive book about pleating on the market.
It explains how pleating systems can be stretched, compressed, flared, skewed, multiplied, and mirrored, showing how from simple ideas, a huge number of original pleat forms can be created. Each technique is explained with a series of step-by-step photographs and line illustrations, enabling the designer to work through the basic principles of pleating and then adapt them to their specific needs. Complete Pleats also features more than 60 examples of pleats from the worlds of architecture, fashion, and product design.
Paul Jackson has taught pleating techniques to students of Fashion Design for 30 years, in both paper and fabric. Complete Pleats is the definitive practical guide for anyone wishing to create and make pleats.
It explains how pleating systems can be stretched, compressed, flared, skewed, multiplied, and mirrored, showing how from simple ideas, a huge number of original pleat forms can be created. Each technique is explained with a series of step-by-step photographs and line illustrations, enabling the designer to work through the basic principles of pleating and then adapt them to their specific needs. Complete Pleats also features more than 60 examples of pleats from the worlds of architecture, fashion, and product design.
Paul Jackson has taught pleating techniques to students of Fashion Design for 30 years, in both paper and fabric. Complete Pleats is the definitive practical guide for anyone wishing to create and make pleats.
About the author
Paul Jackson is the author of more than 30 books on paper arts and crafts. He has taught the techniques of folding on over 150 university-level design courses in the UK, Germany, Belgium, the US, Canada and Israel, and has been a 'folding consultant' for such companies as Nike and Siemens.
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