Great Gift Ideas for Sewers
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Inspiring Books
Pattern Magic 2 by Tomoko Nakamichi
This is a really cool and fascinating book that clearly illustrates how to make sculptural clothing details using Tomoko’s creative approach to pattern cutting. It’s the partner to Tomoko’s original Pattern Magic, published last year in English, and includes even more step-by-step project illustrations and instructions for creating unique and cutting-edge designs. ($24.95, LaurenceKing.com)
--Carol Fresia, special issues technical editor
Advanced Textiles for Health and Well-Being by Marie O’Mahoney
It’s amazing to think that fabrics are being developed that could be proof against fire, bacteria, sharks, the sun, and other potential hazards. Future textiles are going to have new uses in medicine, construction, transportation, and more fields that could change the way people live. “Advanced Textiles” includes a glossary, more than 200 illustrations, and a suppliers list. ($50, ThamesandHudson.com)
--Sarah McFarland, associate editor
Seventeenth-Century Women’s Dress Patterns: Book 1 edited by Jenny Tiramani and Susan North
This book--along with its recently published follow-up, Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns: Book 2--will doubtless join the other historical clothing books on my shelf. Produced by the Victoria & Albert Museum’s publishing arm, it details 15 garments and accessories from a 17th-century British woman’s wardrobe and provides step-by-step drawings of the construction sequence and scale patterns. Alongside the usual gorgeous color photographs are X-ray photos that reveal every detail of a garment’s composition and construction. ($65, VandAShop.com or AbramsBooks.com)
--Stephani L. Miller, associate editor
Edith Head: The Fifty-Year Career of Hollywood’s Greatest Costume Designer by Jay Jorgenson
This is a big, heavy, monster of a book that's filled with wonderful photographs of clothes designed by costume designer Edith Head for movies such as “All About Eve,” “Sabrina,” and “A Place in the Sun.” The author was granted unprecedented access to the Edith Head Archives of the Academy of Motion PIcture Arts and Sciences, so the book offers oodles of great eye candy and lots of information on Head’s career. ($75, RunningPress.com)
--Mary Ray, contributing editor
For more sewing gift items, head to your nearest newsstand for the December/January 2012 issue of Threads.
What sewing items top your wish list this year?
Stephani Miller, associate editor Posted on Dec 14th, 2011 in sewing, online extras, tools & supplies, embellishments, notions, Tools, gift guide, sewing books
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