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Complete Pleats: Pleating Techniques for Fashion, Architecture and Design
Paul Jackson‘s major new title Complete Pleats is the most comprehensive book about pleating on the market.
It explains how pleating systems can be stretched, compressed, flared, skewed, multiplied, and mirrored, showing how from simple ideas, a huge number of original pleat forms can be created. Each technique is explained with a series of step-by-step photographs and line illustrations, enabling the designer to work through the basic principles of pleating and then adapt them to their specific needs. Complete Pleats also features more than 60 examples of pleats from the worlds of architecture, fashion, and product design.
Paul Jackson has taught pleating techniques to students of Fashion Design for 30 years, in both paper and fabric. Complete Pleats is the definitive practical guide for anyone wishing to create and make pleats.
The book includes a DVD featuring 23 videos of pleating techniques.
It explains how pleating systems can be stretched, compressed, flared, skewed, multiplied, and mirrored, showing how from simple ideas, a huge number of original pleat forms can be created. Each technique is explained with a series of step-by-step photographs and line illustrations, enabling the designer to work through the basic principles of pleating and then adapt them to their specific needs. Complete Pleats also features more than 60 examples of pleats from the worlds of architecture, fashion, and product design.
Paul Jackson has taught pleating techniques to students of Fashion Design for 30 years, in both paper and fabric. Complete Pleats is the definitive practical guide for anyone wishing to create and make pleats.
The book includes a DVD featuring 23 videos of pleating techniques.
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304 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 11, 2015
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March 31, 2021Great book for learning how to fold flat surfaces ex. Paper, wax sheet, material.
January 29, 2022
Great resource for pleats.
Though this was my entry into pleating, I will no doubt be referring back to it for a while to come!
Though this was my entry into pleating, I will no doubt be referring back to it for a while to come!
March 4, 2016
This is a unique and beautiful resource for designers, and anyone interested in pattern and/or folding techniques. There is enough inspiration in this book to last, and to keep returning to. As a paper folder (who will put this next to Tomoko Fuse's Spirals on my bookcase), I'm interested in the designs in paper as you would make them to experiment, but the book covers fabric folding and using the shapes in other fields such as furniture design and architecture.
The book is produced to a very high standard, with quality paper, printing and design. Colour photographs provide ideas from finished work among the numerous illustrations of the techniques. Such quality comes with a price tag, but this is a book to relish and revisit, and will pay its way over the long term.
The book is produced to a very high standard, with quality paper, printing and design. Colour photographs provide ideas from finished work among the numerous illustrations of the techniques. Such quality comes with a price tag, but this is a book to relish and revisit, and will pay its way over the long term.
August 31, 2016
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