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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.

Search Words

BinocularsHere is a list of suggested subject terms for searching our library catalog OneSearch. Sometimes the terms used in your classroom or the industry may be different from the words librarians use to classify books.

For example: "Anthropometry" will give you different results than the word "body size"  even though they have similar meanings. Trying some of these searches may unlock different and more relevant results.