Drape Patternmaking: Lesson 1 How To

Tutor Couture gives you your first lesson in draping a bodice. Draping is the more intuitive way to make patterns. For a perfect fit drape it right on your client's body rather than on the dress form.

Basic Draping

There is more than one way to make a dress. Until now through my free videos and how-to tutorials with diagrams you have been learning the basics of projective geometry through pattern drafting. Some designers however prefer to deal directly with the three dimensional. Draping is the sculpting of a design directly onto the body. The muslin is, in essence, a soft version of the drafting paper. In her videos Susan Elias introduces us to the basics of draping.