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This classic text offers students and industry professionals detailed step-by-step instructions and illustrations, for grading pattern pieces for women's, men's and children's wear.
only half the storyReviewed by N. Owczarek, 2007-08-20
this book is best for people grading by hand, as it gives step by
step instructions on how to move the pattern to grade
up/down.
it does NOT give standard grading charts of standard sizes. it
gives only the BASIC BASIC grades between them, such as 2" for the
waist.
I was expecting something a lot more thorough and updated than
this, especially since the apparel industry has changed so much. I
wanted standard specs with grading, not common-sense instructions
on shifting a pattern up and out, etc.
The one that gets used most in the businessReviewed by Kathleen Fasanella, 2006-03-28
I can't believe nobody has reviewed this book because it is -hands
down- the best book in the business. It's self-published so its
release and publicity is limited but I can tell you this is the
book that is most often USED in the apparel industry. Not the book
most used in schools, but in real life (I've been a pattern maker
for 25+ years). I guarantee all the pattern grading services keep
it on hand! The way the grading charts and mapping is set up in the
book most closely mirrors the way we work in the industry. The
charts in competing books (Price/Zamkoff) are so complex but
Handford's book nails it.
Unlike many book authors, Handford was a pattern maker for years.
He'd work in the industry for a spate of years, get disgusted, go
back to school, get disgusted with school so he'd go back to
pattern making, then in to teaching, then back to school, then back
to manufacturing over and over. He did this over the lifetime of
his career finally ending up with a Ph.D and 50 years of industrial
experience! I mention his background because it means his book is
keenly attentuated to the needs of everyone, students, pattern
makers and educators. He did it all so he'd know what was most
efficacious for all parties concerned. His book blends the needs of
everyone simply and succinctly. You could buy another book rather
than this one but I don't know why you would.
