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MENDING AND ALTERATIONS MADE SIMPLE

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A Complete Guide to Clothes Repair
Anna de Leo

This manual provides all necessary knowledge for anyone who wants to acquire the basic skills for mending, altering and fixing clothes. The publication explains in an easy to ...
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Publishing date: 2022
Language: English
Binding: Softcover
Size : 17,00 x 24,00 cm.
Pages: 176
ISBN/EAN: 9788417412364

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This manual provides all necessary knowledge for anyone who wants to acquire the basic skills for mending, altering and fixing clothes. The publication explains in an easy to understand and simple language the most usual clothing repairs, like shortening pants, a seam to be redone, darning a hole, shortening the sleeves of a shirt, etc. From learning to do stitches by hand to using the sewing machine, the author guides the reader throughout the process by simple texts and useful photographs proving that mending is easy. The book also includes a glossary of technical terms. With this DIY guide, the reader will be able to perform some alterations and mendings without the need of going to the professional tailor. It's a basic manual, but also contains some more complicated mendings that people with advanced skills can tackle.
Anna De Leo was born in Cosenza, Italy in 1987. In 2014 she graduated from the Euromode School Italia. In 2015 she moved to Udine, where she took a tailoring repair course. She later enrolled on the Fashion Design course at Milan Fashion Campus (Italy), and completed a Personal Shopper and Image consultant course. From 2015 to 2017 she worked in different fashion companies, refining the knowledge and skills that allow her to experiment also with the packaging of garments and the study of new modeling techniques. She is the author of fashion-related books, including Mending and Alterations Made Simple.