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Bring the world to your sewing machine! A sumptuously illustrated survey of traditional clothing from across the globe--plus timesaving, innovative techniques for making and decorating garments--will absolutely enchant stitchers. Throughout, images, from richly colored photographs to vintage postcards, capture people in their authentic dress (many of which have now disappeared). Before beginning an actual project, examine the basics of construction that appear again and again in ethnic attire: unconstructed rectangles, pullover cloaks or tunics, sleeved shifts, pull-on pants, full skirts with aprons, yoked shirts, short vests, and a front-opening coat. Embellish them, using some of the exquisite techniques that make these garments so breathtaking, from weaving and braiding to beading, painting, and embroidering. The highlight: six popular folkwear outfits with instructions on pattern making, marking, cutting out pieces, and putting it all together--a Seminole skirt, Moroccan burnoose, Syrian dress, Polish vest, Tibetan coat and Japanese Kimono.… (más)
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This book is dedicated to my husband, John David Rukavina, and to the countless generations of women (my own mother among them) who, in every corner of the world, took the time to teach their daughters not only how to sew but also how spiritually satisfying it is to make something of lasting beauty with their own two hands.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Patterns constructed from squares, rectangles, triangles, and circles predominate in ethnic clothing.
[Introduction] It all started with the traditional Syrian cloak called an izar.
[Foreword] In the mid-1970s, three California women founded Folkwear Patterns to share their passion for finely crafted ethnic clothing with other lovers of fiber and fabric.
[Afterword] Ethnic clothing can fascinate us simply as costume.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
How many ways there are to create beauty and to celebrate the transcendence of the spirit over the often harsh realities of the physical world!
[Foreword] May their comments here, along with Mary Parker's splendid book, fire up your passion for ethnic clothing and link you to the endless stream of craftspeople who make beautiful things, everywhere and in all times.
[Introduction] I hope that I have heard all their voices clearly and interpreted correctly what they would have said themselves had they been given the chance.
[Afterword] How many ways there are to create beauty and to celebrate the transcendence of the spirit over the often harsh realities of the physical world!
Bring the world to your sewing machine! A sumptuously illustrated survey of traditional clothing from across the globe--plus timesaving, innovative techniques for making and decorating garments--will absolutely enchant stitchers. Throughout, images, from richly colored photographs to vintage postcards, capture people in their authentic dress (many of which have now disappeared). Before beginning an actual project, examine the basics of construction that appear again and again in ethnic attire: unconstructed rectangles, pullover cloaks or tunics, sleeved shifts, pull-on pants, full skirts with aprons, yoked shirts, short vests, and a front-opening coat. Embellish them, using some of the exquisite techniques that make these garments so breathtaking, from weaving and braiding to beading, painting, and embroidering. The highlight: six popular folkwear outfits with instructions on pattern making, marking, cutting out pieces, and putting it all together--a Seminole skirt, Moroccan burnoose, Syrian dress, Polish vest, Tibetan coat and Japanese Kimono.
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