Practical Fashion Tech: Wearable Technologies for Costuming, Cosplay, and Everyday

© Joan Horvath, Lyn Hoge and Rich Cameron 2016

Joan Horvath, Lyn Hoge and Rich Cameron, Practical Fashion Tech, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1662-0_3

3. How to Sew

Joan Horvath¹ , Lyn Hoge² and Rich Cameron¹

(1)Nonscriptum LLC, Pasadena, California, USA

(2)Los Angeles, California, USA

One of the challenging things about wearable tech is that you need to learn to do a lot of different things that would not typically be in the skill sets of one person. You can, of course, collaborate, as your three authors have done. In this book we try to give you all the key basics so that you can in principle do projects end to end yourself, or with your students.

This chapter covers the basic elements of hand and machine sewing, starting you off with hand sewing and then moving ...