Sartorial Architecture: Luxury, Custom Fashion Pattern Making 

Who:  Homeschool High School Students

When:  16 Mondays beginning September 30, 2019

Where:  Baldwin Studios,  751 South 4th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147

Time:  9.00 a.m. - Noon

The goal is to give the students the skills and knowledge needed to obtain accurate and precise body measurements and to use those measurements to design a couple of personal slopers, a custom-fitted, basic pattern from which patterns for many different styles can be developed.  As they say, a sloper in hand is worth two in the bush.

Learn how to create block sloper patterns using flat pattern-making techniques together with art form of draping. This course will give students all the basic skills needed to create pants, bodices, sleeves, skirts and/or dresses (depending on time and complexity). On an industry dressform, students learn how to measure a body properly and create garments using draping skills and techniques. Then learn how to do simple changes to a basic pattern, aka the sloper (the fashion term for your basic pattern block). This 16-week course is ideal for those beginners sewers who lack this technical training. Within 16 weeks, the students will build a foundation and pattern-making understanding that will be able to be utilized once the course has been completed. Once this art form has been mastered, design to your heart's content! Some designers perfect their work on the table using flat pattern alone. But these students will also learn the excitement of designing in 3D and seeing ideas come to life through draping!

The following is a list of takeaways:

• Sewing on Industrial equipment

• Complete two (2) slopers 

• Sartorial architecture - learning the terms, tools and forms

• Custom fittings

• Test the efficacy of at least one sloper

• Learn modification

• Recognize a perfect fit

WELCOME YOUNG MEN AND YOUNG WOMEN!!!!