Tailor's drafting manuals, that is the ones that consist mostly of men's clothing patterns, fairly often have diagrams at true scale. The women's magazines and sewing manuals have them far less often. Diagrams telling readers what the pattern pieces look like and how to assemble them are usually just that. They are not at true scale because they are designed to be used with a full-size tissue pattern supplied either in that magazine, or by the publisher of a magazine that sold full-size patterns separately (the major pattern companies used magazines to keep their readers informed about new styles, trimming ideas, construction techniques, etc.). And as I said, the early Godey's and Peterson's patterns are pretty rough and probably, not designed for mathematical enlargement. And of course, if you have a human-size tissue pattern, it may not fit the wearer for whom a reproduction is being made, but changing the size is not a graphing issue.
Fran Lavolta Press www.lavoltapress.com On 8/8/2011 1:31 PM, Maggie Halberg wrote:
Thanks Ladies! I'm trying to stick to modern copies of original garments. Getting stuff out of period sources is outside of the scope of what I want to cover in this workshop. I only have three hours so I need to use them wisely. Thanks, Maggie Halberg
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