Garment Technology for Fashion Designers

This handbook is designed to provide students and professionals with the fundamental principles of clothing technology in relation to their own work of design, pattern cutting and supervision of a sample-making section. Technological factors are becoming increasingly important in fashion design because of the far-ranging decisions which the designer has to make involving cutting, fusibles, sewing, pressing, finishing and quality at the sampling stage. Today, the designer has to understand the basics of the technologies involved in order to make informed decisions, which will affect the feasibility and costs of designs.