Hachette India

Technical Drawing for Fashion Second Edition

Basia Szkutnicka

Technical Drawing for Fashion explains how to create a technical fashion drawing using a simple and straightforward step-by-step method. This second edition includes more information on rendering drawings by hand and using a computer and a brand new section on knitwear.

The main part of the book presents over 600 technical drawings of garment types styles and construction details the basic key shapes of which are shown alongside a specially created and photographed calico toile. This unique presentation illustrates the relationship between the three-dimensional garment and the two-dimensional drawing allowing readers to really understand how to render technical drawings.

Basia Szkutnicka

Basia Szkutnicka was a successful freelance writer, design consultant, educator and creative, specializing in womenswear, footwear, forecasting, colour, range planning and technical drawing. She lectured all over the world on design process, was a course director at the London College of Fashion for 15 years, and then head of the MA in Fashion at Hong Kong University. She died in 2021.