Pattern Magic - creative pattern making

[educo]

My God Gius, thank you so much for this!

 

[gius]

you're welcome
here is his myspace, where you can view a demo (video)
http://www.myspace.com/164795440

also it says on the site if you make something from the techniques, you could send it and they'll upload it there, but not sure where that page would be... but you could post it *here* if you like

 

[Petit Lucille]

i thought i could add a weird skirt that i made. it has spikes!

onthecornerstreetstyle.blogspot.com

 

[kbella]

Here is something else...
from the U.K.

Experimental pattern making ideas/instructions by Julian Roberts

The site gives you the basic theory of pattern making
and experiments to try out yourself
http://www.blowpr.co.uk/JULIANandSOPHIEsite/school/bananamilkshake.htm

more info on the persons behind it
if you click Julian Roberts name at the top of this post

attached is the theory|

He did a demo at my uni once, it was awesome. Couldn't remember his name though, so glad I found this.

 

[Feline]

Thanks so much Gius, these look really interesting. I will have a more detailed look & maybe try the techniques out if they are straightforward to follow.

 

[Aficionada]

Pattern magic – Japanese-English?

I am happy to have both of Nakamichi's Pattern Magic books now. Totally fascinating!

To work with the books, knowledge of the Japanese language does not seem a must as the illustrations are excellent. It would be nice, however, to be able read one or the other description or instruction to get the most out of them. Therefore my question: Does anybody know if meanwhile there are translations available? Or do I have to go via OCR and babelfish?

A*

 

[gius]

i haven't heard of any..but what is OCR?

also just wanted to ask, in the book is there any tiny letters above the normal sized lettering? (called furigana)

-wikimedia.org

 

[Aficionada]

Ocr

...but what is OCR?

OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition, a software that usually comes with your scanner or is available as free- or shareware ... Other than with such a software, I don't see a chance to use babelfish

I don't understand your other question concerning furigana, gius.

 

[gius]

i'm asking about furigana because i can't read a lot of the chinese characters (kanji) but i can read the japanese alphabets.. and they use these alphabets in the furigana (above the kanji) so you can read the kanji :-)

do you have OCR? sounds like the perfect program.. seems high-tech. i've never even heard of it before. seems to be easiest doing it the OCR way. my chinese friend can read some japanese texts just by going with the chinese characters/kanji... it becomes pretty obvious even without the japanese alphabet in the sentences.

 

[Aficionada]

do you have OCR? sounds like the perfect program.. seems high-tech. i've never even heard of it before. seems to be easiest doing it the OCR way.

I'll see. Have not tried it with Japanese yet. I'll keep you posted ...

 

[MUXU]

i think i need to see more examples of the subtraction cutting to be convinced and to see the performed live. the theories it presents sounds interesting but judging from the images i have seen it seems like this style of cutting is quite limiting, or perhaps it might just havent been fully developed yet.
he's coming to lcf this october,i wonder if i can take a sneak peak

 

[MUXU]

http://www.julianand.com/MainPageFILE/two-wrongs-make-a-right .pdf

in here julian mentions exploring into tailoring and subtraction cutting, sounds interesting.

 

[ettebe]

Nice I should really get one of these books.

 

[bluecherry]

it is a very cool book gius! ive been working lately with a sleeve pattern i found on vintagesewing.info
http://vintagesewing.info/1940s/42-mpd/illust/04-118-b.jpg
this website has a lot of cool vintage patterns, back from the 1800s to the 1950`s
id like to do a variation of this...but seems a lil complicated
http://vintagesewing.info/1940s/42-mpd/illust/04-114-b.jpg

i realise it was a long time ago but did you find it easy to make the sleeves?? i want to try and experiment!!