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The Language of Fashion Design
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The Language of Fashion Design

by Laura Volpintesta
February 2014
Beginner content levelBeginner
240 pages
7h 2m
English
Rockport Publishers
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In general, garments are cut with the length grain
(parallel to the selvage edges of the raw material)
running down the length of the piece. Called
straight grain, it is stable and strong, its threads
falling flat in the gridlike formation that weaving
bias
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naturally takes on a loom, resulting in crisp
forms with square corners, and no horizontal
or vertical stretch.
The development of the bias-cut
technique is likened to the first action of
deconstruction: It provoked a total rethink-
ing of the medium. When a garment is cut
diagonally from ...
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ISBN: 9781592538218