Timo RissanenZero Waste Fashion Design (Required Reading Range)

I am an ordinary sewist who loves cotton and linen and who has come to hate traditional clothing patterns because of the fabric waste that they leave in their wakes. And while I quilt and make other projects with the wastage, I would prefer to make good-looking clothes that don’t leave me with so much scrap fabric. This book, therefore, is an incredible resource for helping people like me visualize how we can use zero waste concepts in designing and making our own clothes. True, some of the concepts — see, e.g., CAD or grading patterns for multiple sizes — I am unlikely to use. And some of the designs in this book will not compliment my body (now in its seventh decade). Still, many of the concepts in the book are helpful to hobby sewists like me. Further, I can wear many of these designs and very much look forward to making them. In the meantime, many, many thanks to Timo Rissanen and Holly McQuillan for publishing a work that, in addition to being comprehensive, also is accessible to those of us who are not design students.

Lo único que no me agradó, es que llegó golpeado y arrugado en la parte superior, supongo que fue por el transporte.

Great book with clear instructions

It's a somple book, but is grate if you want to know how to make zero waste fashion desing. I found it inspiring.

Como o livro veio de fora, fiquei com um certo receio do livro vir danificado, mas não aconteceu nada com ele

I read the whole book and I can say that many of the designs are not practical to wear in this book. Only few are wearable. The patterns to make them are very complicated. Personally as a fashion design student I would not recommend this book.

This is a great textbook that discusses zero waste fashion design. It starts with a bit of history then moves onto how to create zero waste designs. There are illustrations of various garments that you could reproduce but you need to do the work of creating the measurements needed as it is not a pattern drafting book but a more theoretical look at zero waste designing in the fashion industry. Although I'm not a professional as I only sew for myself I am interested in applying the theories and ideas exposed here to my own sewing.