The first book teaches how to insert knots, twists, cubes, holes, craters etc into your basic bodice. A version of the bamboo-bodice is in this book, too. Some techniques are surprising, as you literally attach the element with tape or pins on the garment and use style-lines to melt it into the pattern. Take the pieces of a three-dimensional garment apart and flatten them, to get individual pattern pieces. There isn’t much information to be found about the author Tomoko Nakamichi. I searched on the internet, but I could only find the same information that’s also written in the Pattern Magic -books: She was a professor at Bunka Fashion College in Tokyo and now delivers lectures and holds courses both in Japan and internationally. All the garments in the pictures are actually in half-scale. Nakamichi created them with trial-and-error approach and they served to help her students understand better how patterns work. Basics

Then there’s a design called ” Like a jungle” where the bodice front is separated with stylelines into slices that overlap each other. I had an idea that I wanted the overlapping area to create a flower-shape in the middle by leaving little holes in between the slices. Well, I’m not too happy with the result, but probably I could make it work by editing the pattern some more. Jungle-flower Trang phục người dao đỏ trong giảng dạy thiết kế thời trang ấn tượng cho sinh viên khoa thiết kế thời trang Ffareconceafed in a curve Thisdesignmakesyou wonderhow the flarehas beenconcealed. The foldedand layeredlook that hasso much depth is structurallybeautifuland exciting.With that ideain mind, I beganby drawing somecomplexcuryes. These are really beautiful transformation, I love the nyokittos and the jungle flower. I don’t have any of the books neither have I tried any of these before. I’m now inspired to try some through your tutorials. Great job therethe values and placement, or multiplying the elements. Just improvising and seeing what comes out. I mean, the book gives you the technique, but you can place the cuts differently, add more (or less) volume than it says and so on. It’s interesting to experiment. Even better if you can use a half-scale dressform.

This series of booksis ideal for intermediate & advanced fashion designer/dressmaker. In the series, Tomoko Nakamichi has written4books, 3 which usewoven fabrics and one of which usesstretch fabrics. I would be lying if I said these books are good for a beginner as you need some knowledge of pattern cutting and sewing to be able to use and understand the processes required to make the designs. That said, they'realso greatbooks if you would just like some design inspiration for a collection or for fashion illustrations. Trang phục người Dao Đỏ trong giảng dạy thiết kế thời trang Ấn tượng cho sinh viên khoa Thiết kế thời trang (Luận văn thạc sĩ) There’s a dress with a group of knots in the front. What a great idea! The knots create an interesting texture. I made a different version by inserting the knots on the shoulders of a bodice and added some gathering, too. Gathered bodice with knots As you can see, the second book has inspired quite a few designs for me! And to be honest, now that I was leafing through it, I started planning a couple of new ones, too… Here’s a picture of a vanishing tie I made with some changes to the pattern. I think this way the pattern became more simple. I added stripes as well. Vanishing tie with stripes

I first discovered these books during a sewing course. One of the fellow-students had brought the first two books with her in class and we were all leafing through them, amazed by the designs. Of course I then had to get the books myself, too. It’s difficult to say which one is my favorite. Each book has designs that I like. However I’ve done most variations on the pieces from book number 2, so I guess this means that it’s the most inspirational for me. What is Pattern Magic? I’ve had an explosion of inspiration, and I’m not even an expert in sewing!…I’m sure that many of you, fashion designers or not, can learn a lot from these tutorials’ ImaginativeBloom.com

Here you can find garments inspired by the various geometrical shapes: circle, triangle and square. There’s a chapter on accordion-technique, with examples of that being inserted both in a sleeve and into a bodice. I’ve done a few designs using this technique and I love the way it creates really sculptural shapes. Here’s one. Accordion-sculptureI’ve tried almost every design in this book and then I made my own versions of some of them by changing

Having served for many years as a professor at Bunka Fashion College, Tomoko Nakamichi currently delivers lectures and holds courses on pattern making both in her native Japan and internationally. This book brings together the results of the research she has carried out on garment patterns to help instruct her students. She is also the author of Pattern Magic, Pattern Magic 2 and Pattern Magic: Stretch Fabrics. It’s a fairly well known series of patternmaking books from Japan. There are others, too, but what I love about these in particular, is that instead of just giving you the finished pattern to copy, the book explains how to draft it yourself! That way you have the possibility to make all kinds of different versions of your own using the various techniques explained. Pattern Magic Books By:Tomoko Nakamichi ​ Inspired by nature and geometry,this Japanese series of Pattern Magic books offers fashion designers & dressmakers the chance to be more playful with pattern cutting. Each design comeswith step by step written and photographed instructions making these intriguing designs possible. ​

Thank you. 🙂 You can find these books in many bookshops, also online. I’m not sure which shop you have available where you live, but I think you should be able to find the best place for you by doing a google search. If I recall correctly, I bought mine from Book Depository. They ship internationally. All the projects include step-by-step instructions with diagrams and lots of photos. Some are more difficult than others to understand, depending on your experience. Personally, I often use the books as inspiration, even just by looking at the pictures. You can create a garment by cutting, moving and reassemblingthe piecesof a pattern, just like the pieces of. a pazzle. Easy-to-follow, detailed instructions make it easy to create stunning, sculptural clothes with a couture look