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Technical Apparel Design: Patternmaking, Draping, and Grading

This research guide offers resources for the technical aspects of fashion design. These include patternmaking, drafting, and draping as well as sizing and pattern grading.

Textbooks Online

(ebook) Draping for Apparel Design

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(ebook) Patternmaking for Menswear

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(ebook) Fashion Design

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(ebook) Principles of Flat-Pattern Design

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(ebook) Computerized Patternmaking for Apparel Production

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Complete Guide to Size Specification & Technical Design

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(ebook) Beyond Design

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Fashion Drawing

Online Resources

The Library has increased our online resources in the last several years. This page focuses on how to get you the materials you need when the Library is inaccessible. Most of the books on this page are restricted to use by FIT students, faculty, and staff. But other sites listed have a great deal of information available to a wider community of users.

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FIT Library Video Collections

Fashionable Image Sources

Berg Fashion Library

Berg Fashion Library

contains fashion specific dictionaries and encyclopedias.  It's a great place to get definitions and overviews on a topic.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Gale Virtual Reference Library

contains fashion specific dictionaries and encyclopedias.

Artstor

Artstor

has thousands of images from museum collections around the world.  You can browse by Country of Origin, Museum, Medium and Time Period.

Vogue Archive

Vogue Archive

Every issue from 1892-Current, including articles, ads, editorial content 

FITDIL: FIT Digital Image Library

FITDIL: FIT Digital Image Library

digital repository database of approximately 64,000 digital images intended for both research and instructional use by FIT students and faculty. Includes our designer files.

Harper's Bazaar Archive

Harper's Bazaar Archive

Harper's Bazaar (US): 1867-present
Harper's Bazaar (UK): April 1930 - Dec 1969
Harpers and Queen (UK): Nov 1970 - Feb 2006
Harper's Bazaar (UK): Mar 2006 - Dec 2015

Current Online Textbooks