Using your custom drafted Trouser Pattern made with Kenneth D. King, he will take you through the steps of construction. You choose the style you wish to make.
This Digital Version of the PDF Book Brush Fringe Jacket shows you how to make tailored clothing with self-fringed edges, while still being able to incorporate sew-in interfacings.
Measuring the Body, Measurement Chart and Minimum Wearing Ease for Fabric Types. This 10+ part Online class will take you from measuring your body to adding in wearing ease, checking commercial patterns for fit and adjusting the patterns.
Do you have a group interested in any of the many classes offered at the Sewing And Design School but live too far away for all of you to travel? Ryliss will travel to teach sewing and alteration lessons or deliver a lecture. Deposit of $50.00 is needed to set up the date.
DIGITAL VERSION of the PDF book MAKING PATTERS FROM EXISTING GARMENTS by Kenneth D. King outlines the method of taking a pattern from an existing garment, without taking that garment apart.
The Basic Sleeve
by Kenneth D. King
Once you get your slopers, you will need a sleeve. This book continues with the Ecole Guerre-Lavigne system of couture pattern drafting, to draft the three most basic set-in sleeves: Shirt sleeve, fitted sleeve with elbow dart, and two-part tailored sleeve.
• A Flash Drive book* – 130 pages
• Includes Video Demonstration on CD-ROM.
• $24.95 US – shipping and all applicable taxes included
The moulage is the foundation of the couture pattern drafting system taught by the Ecole Guerre-Lavigne in Paris. This is a system of measuring the figure, calculating, and drafting a pattern that will fit the torso like a second skin, incorporating any of the infinite variations of shape the human figure can take.
Making Garments from Existing Garments
by Kenneth D. King
Flash Drive Book*
$24.95 US shipping included.
If you have a garment that you love, one that you’d like more of, you can use this way of taking a pattern from it without ripping the garment apart.
The Collars
by Kenneth D. King
• A Flash Drive Book*
• $24.95 US – shipping included.
The Collars is another installment in the series of couture patternmaking CD books.
Dress Lines
by Kenneth D. King
A Flash Drive Book*
$19.95 US shipping included.
The Dress Lines CD is the final installment of the Ecole Guerre-Lavigne pattern drafting system.
The Moulage
By Kenneth D. King
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The moulage is the foundation of the couture pattern drafting system taught by the Ecole Guerre-Lavigne in Paris. This is a system of measuring the figure, calculating, and drafting a pattern that will fit the torso like a second skin, incorporating any of the infinite variations of shape the human figure can take.
NEW Flash Drive book! Cool Tricks Takes Manhattan
By Kenneth D. King
Kenneth has introduced yet another book, on garment techniques, called Cool Tricks Takes Manhattan!
Necklines and Draping
by Kenneth D. King
• A Flash Drive Book*
• $38.95 US – shipping included.
This is the next installment in the series of couture pattern making CD’s.
The Minott method takes into account figure differences; skirts and pants are drafted to fit one's hip shape and posture type, not just waist and hip measurements.
Making Garments from Existing Garments
by Kenneth D. King
If you have a garment that you love, one that you’d like more of, you can use this way of taking a pattern from it without ripping the garment apart.
CD Book offers a visual approach to fitting. A moulage/sloper/basic pattern that has been fitted or drafted to your personal measurements is duplicated in clear plastic with the necessary reference points
This CD Book offers a visual approach to fitting. A moulage/sloper/basic pattern that has been fitted or drafted to your personal measurements is duplicated in clear plastic with the necessary reference points
NEW Flash Drive book! Embellishments
By Kenneth D. King
Price includes shipping and tax.
There’s a new CD book out by Kenneth! Called Embellishments, it gathers many diverse embellishment techniques that Kenneth has written about, taught at the Fashion Insititute of Technology, and across the country.
Birth of a Bustier
by Kenneth D. King
• A Flash Drive Book*
• $24.95 US – shipping included.
If you’ve ever made strapless garments, you will know how difficult it is to make a garment that fits well and stays in place.
NEW Flash Drive book! Cool Tricks Takes Manhattan
By Kenneth D. King
Kenneth has introduced yet another book, on garment techniques, called Cool Tricks Takes Manhattan!
The Skirts
by Kenneth D. King
• A Flash Drive Book*
• $24.95 US – shipping and all applicable taxes included.
The Skirts is another installment of the Ecole Guerre-Lavigne system of pattern drafting.
Tailored Jacket
by Kenneth D. King
• A Flash Drive Book, 289 pages*
• $27.95 US – shipping included.
My aim was to create a book that illustrates the process so well that one would feel confident to try an tailored jacket.