Draping
Draping on a professional dress form
with instructor Cora Poole
Mondays, September 20-December 6, 6-9 pm
Take the whole 12-week series for $329 or $175 per 6-week class. Includes pattern papers, notebook and handouts.
As seen on Project Runway, learn how to work with fabric on a dress form to turn your fashion ideas into real garments. Arrange your fabric into folds, twists and style lines to create dresses, tops, skirts, coats and daring necklines. We provide the dress forms. But in the first session, you will find out where to buy a good quality, inexpensive dress form, alter it to your size and how to put on style lines — so you can start designing your ideas!
Draping 1: Mondays, September 20-October 25, 6-9 pm
Learn the fundamentals of draping as a method of designing garments and a patternmaking alternative. Work on a professional dress form to create bodices, skirts, and dresses. Transfer the drape to a paper pattern. Required pre-requisites: Patternmaking I and II.
Draping 2: Mondays, November 1-December 6, 6-9 pm
Expand on techniques learned in Draping I. Learn to drape asymmetrical designs, bias and cowl necklines and knit fabric. Prerequisite: Draping 1.