Friday Freebie: Pants!
By Anna Romaniuk and Ellen Knight
Drafting, modifying and fitting pants. In Imperial and Metric. No copyright. ‘nuff said. Get it here.
And if you loved that, this should be of interest too (downloadable pdf link at top left). Thank goodness for open access/ public domain/ do-gooding nerds. I hope to die a millionaire so I can leave my body to Science and everything else to Project Gutenberg (gwah! they have Alice’s Adventures Underground-with illustrations). And just for kicks, ye olde men’s pattern drafting.
I had an awesome/ frustrating time colouring up these ladies as Star Trek babes in Acorn then my laptop crashed and I lost everything so you’re just going to have to use your imagination (/recreational drugs) for now.
I managed to get Hillhouse and Manfield’s Dress Design: Draping and Flat Pattern Making via interlibrary loans from at Uni. It’s a beautiful hardback tome which is awesome in terms of the amount of information contained within but unfortunate in that I can’t get the text towards the centre to scan right on my tiny little A4 scanner. Which is a bit of a bummer because it’s an awesome book, totally out of copyright and perfect for sharing (people are selling pdfs on Etsy. I’ve said all I have to say on that so I’m not going to launch into another diatribe here). I am, however interested in the logistics of how these people scanned it-did they use a Google style magic robot or just take the binding apart and shove the pages through a document feeder?)
I spend a lot of time and effort scanning these books so I really hope the information is of use to someone out there. If you end up making something from this, do let me know, I’d love to see how it worked out.
On an aside, I drafted up Enid’s Apron of Delight today (in Imperial measurements, what what!) and I’ll be sewing it up tomorrow so fingers crossed on that.
Previously on Friday Freebies.
Thanks a lot for this, I have just had a good skim-read and it looks brilliant!
I have so far relied on Winifred Aldrich because it was all I had access to / could afford, but this is pants-tastically nerdy and obsessive, I am sure I will use it at some point in the future.
Meanwhile, I have also done my own Sewing in the media post, inspired by yours
hahahaha love it! How did I miss that? Moss is fav. from that show btw. I watched The Watch ‘cuz he was in it-and quite liked it (it was Ben Stiller silliness as expected, every stereotype/trope was present. Also Moss..but not really).
Oo Cool! Totally gonna download! I love internet freebies – and pants! So win win…
Thanks for the freebie. There is such a thing as a book scanner that makes scanning books really easy. If you’re keen you can also make your own using a camera. During my uni break I’m going to raid the libraries for pattern drafting books out of copyright to scan!
Yea Google used to use a custom version of this but they’ve moved on to higher speed stuff since (one of which I linked in the post above). I did think about the one you’ve mentioned but I have no tools so I’ll have to find someone with a proper setup. Will look into it though-thanks! And f-yea on the pattern book scanning front!
Oh! That is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing! These are very interesting and educational. Will print the 1915 book and bring it to Patternschool (well, fashion design school, but I like the sound of Pattern school better) on Monday. People will love it!
What first caught my eye was the “slims” shown with boots … no boot cut? I think my obsession with making jeans has gotten out of hand.
This is a fantastic series, I really love your posts – thank you!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing! When I feel brave I will definitely attempt to make a block.
You are a sharing, caring woman. Thanks
this looks great – I’m definitely giving this a go!
Thanks so much for sharing! Love this book!
PANTS!! I’m so looking forward to going through this in detail… thank you so much!! ^___^
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