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This multidisciplinary collection of eighteen essays was presented at the conference of the same name. It explores the complex and significant role of contemporary craft in society. The authors show how linguistic and feminist studies are tools for understanding craft....
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Mercury-Mercure
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1994-01-01
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A description of the once communal and now individual activity of textile production in eastern Newfoundland including dyeing techniques, fancywork, and the creation of mittens, socks, sweaters, mats, and quilts. The author identifies an emphasis on the quality of the...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1979-01-01
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We take great pleasure in presenting this Work to the trade, confident that it will meet a long-felt need. Although it addresses garments somewhat beyond the usual scope of tailoring practice, they nevertheless form a legitimate, and indeed essential, part of it. There...
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2025-11-28
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"Time tries all things, and no better test can be desired than the fact that after years of widespread recognition as a standard work on Cutting and Practical Tailoring, this book has so grown in favour that edition after edition is demanded.
This, the tenth part,...
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2025-10-20
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Switchblade knives remain highly popular, and in recent years an unusual variant has been making the rounds on the global collector's market. Built with a powerful coil spring along the back of the handle, these knives are rugged and dependable, snapping open under...
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2025-09-17
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The bravest thing in war is a good retreat, and the cleverest thing in cutting is altering a bad fitting garment in such a way as to make it a
good one. Who of us has not felt at a loss what to do when some unexpected difficulty has faced us, and how much at such times...
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2025-08-20
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It is now about three years since we added a new part to "The Cutter's Practical Guide Systems" in the form of a Work on ladies' tailor-made garments. Not only has a large Edition been disposed of, but a number of the styles which were then popular are now out of date....
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2025-08-18
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"The Cutter's Practical Guide" being the present acknowledged Standard System of Cutting at the Tailor and Cutter Office and the System taught to the Students at our Academy, it has, in a variety of forms and adaptations, been laid before the members of the tailoring...
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2025-08-11
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We now introduce another instalment of our work - "The Cutters' Practical Guide," in which we endeavour to embody the result of experience, observation and careful study. Our emanations in this Series of works may not be perfect - we do not claim they are, but we have...
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2025-05-30
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The work we have now completed, which will be placed before the members of an intelligent profession, is essentially the outcome of practical experience in the high-class livery trade. But as the experience of one on so wide a topic as all kinds of Liveries must, of...
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2025-04-15
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Once again we have written our ideas on Trouser Cutting. The system herein described is so simple that the veriest novice may learn it and cut smart-fitting garments by it after a few hours' study; but at the same time embracing problems so difficult that many of them...
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2025-04-11
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Square weaving is a crafting technique that allows you to easily recycle coffee bags into baskets and bags. The coffee bags are cut, folded, and woven into squares. These squares are then joined together with materials like gift ribbon, eliminating the need for a sewing...
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2025-01-14
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An exciting search for traces of the provenance of a katana from the Taima-school, which was forged in the early 14th century. Three hundred years later, it came into the possession of Terao Naomasa, a high-ranking samurai and vassal of Tokugawa Yoshinao, the first...
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Books on Demand
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2023-10-11
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Any body shape is 'normal'
Instead of forcing the customer into a norm, as it happens in the clothing industry with its ready-to-wear sizes, bespoke tailoring adapts to the people. Each body is individual and unique. There are no extraordinary body shapes in bespoke...
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Books on Demand
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2022-12-28
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Recognise and professionally correct fit errors
Not every piece that suits halfway fits perfectly. Folds and wrinkles often appear in unwanted areas, or the wearer notices an uncomfortable feeling of tension because the garment is too tight somewhere.
Body shapes are...
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Books on Demand
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2022-12-09
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Bespoke tailoring
A good silhouette is the DNA of a garment, a kind of architecture for textile ideas. In this book, practical step-by-step instructions ensure that inexperienced cutters can work out the perfect fit, on average body shapes, for a suit, a coat, pants...
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Books on Demand
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2021-12-21
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The more we like to touch an object, the longer it can be found in our household. Nowadays, these wooden objects often are replaced by plastic resulting in a limited lifespan as a standard. How delightful it is when an old chisel finds its way into your hands at a...
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Books on Demand
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2021-11-23
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Reducing or enlarging a sewing pattern - Grading Men's garments fashion book.This book, the second stage in our ""Become a pattern drafter”: Men’s garments series, completes the creation of garments developed earlier using a point-by-point explanation of how to move...
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ESMOD
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2021-08-13
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Pattern drafting fashion book for children's wardrobe A pattern drafting manual for children’s ready-to-wear clothing that includes details on the overall shape of a child’s body from infancy to adolescence, as well as the procedures for development and transformation...
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ESMOD
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2021-08-13
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Le vocabulaire indispensable du prêt-à-porter pour travailler dans la mode (vêtements, détails, bases de textiles, mercerie et accessoires) - Ouvrage illustré et bilingue.Avec plus de 1200 illustrations en couleurs, ce lexique Français-Anglais rassemble cinq grandes...
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ESMOD
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2021-05-01
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