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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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A piece of art in itself, a print should be able to
stand alone. In two dimensions, color, and shape
come together in endless manifestations. A print
is applied to fabric. Patterns and weaves such as
stripes and plaids can be imitated by printing
print
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them on a garment, but if they are woven in,
then they just aren’t prints.
One way to recognize a print is that the
“wrong side” of the garment does not carry
the pattern. Some fabric-printing techniques
and fabrics, however, will show very little or
no difference ...
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ISBN: 9781592538218