It's another installment in "How I Frittered Away Last Weekend on the Internet." These links offer good tutorials on pattern drafting from scratch, and in choosing and altering commercial sewing patterns.
- 1942: Modern Pattern Design by Harriet Pepin, available thanks to Vintage Sewing Reference Library, is the full text of an out-of-print book on pattern drafting and pattern design. It's an excellent, detailed how-to manual, better than most of the current books on the subject, and it's free!
- CTF 30: Clothing, Textiles and Fashion This site was created to provide teaching and learning resources for Clothing, Textiles, and Fashion 30. Each activity is built on Saskatchewan Evergreen curriculum objectives. Aimed at high school students, it's not a complete guide to pattern drafting, but it is a good start.
- New Mexico State University "How-to" Publications: Pattern Alteration. The drawings and directions are succinct. Sometimes, that's just what you need.
- TheSloperLady talks about why you'd want to make a sloper, but doesn't tell you how to do it here.
- Full Bust Enlargements by Kathleen Cheetham, of Petite Plus Patterns, offers detailed directions and diagrams for this particular alteration.
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How long (historically) did pattern drafting exist? I imagine the first patterns were draped. Or were they? If anyone knows the answer please e-mail me at senyum@dslextreme.com
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