Complete Pleats: Pleating Techniques for Fashion, Architecture and Design

Hardback

Main Details

Title Complete Pleats: Pleating Techniques for Fashion, Architecture and Design
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Paul Jackson
Foreword by Pete Docter
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:304
Dimensions(mm): Height 255,Width 190
Category/GenreDecorative arts
Industrial / commercial art and design
Product design
Fashion and textiles - design
Architectural structure and design
Needlework and fabric crafts
Origami and paper engineering
ISBN/Barcode 9781780676012
ClassificationsDewey:746.92
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Laurence King Publishing
Imprint Laurence King Publishing
Publication Date 14 September 2015
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Paul Jackson s major new title Complete Pleats is the most comprehensive book about pleating on the market. It explains how pleating systems can be stretched, compressed, flared, skewed, multiplied and mirrored, showing how from simple ideas, a huge number of original pleat forms can be created. Each technique is explained with a series of step-by-step photographs and line illustrations, enabling the designer to work through the basic principles of pleating and then adapt them to their specific needs. Complete Pleats also features more than 60 examples of pleats from the worlds of architecture, fashion and product design. Paul Jackson has taught pleating techniques to students of Fashion Design for 30 years, in both paper and fabric. Complete Pleats is the definitive practical guide for anyone wishing to create and make pleats The book includes a DVD featuring 23 videos of pleating techniques.

Author Biography

Paul Jackson is the author of over 30 books on paper arts and crafts. He has taught the techniques of folding on over 150 university level design courses in the UK, Germany, Belgium, the US, Canada and Israel and been a 'folding consultant' for companies such as Nike and Siemens.