About the Course
Special Guest Professor Kenneth D King: Moulage and Sleeve Drafting Workshop
This workshop is a good fit for people who want to learn more about making custom, well fitted clothing.
In this class, Professor Kenneth D. King will show students how to properly measure themselves and how to use those measurements to draft moulage patterns. (A moulage is a body-double pattern which can be used to create expertly fitted garments.)
In this 2-day Moulage and Sleeve Drafting Workshop, you will make a moulage pattern, a bodice sloper for a shirt/top, and a sloper for a jacket. In addition, you will obtain the information needed to make a coat sloper, and the sleeve sloper will also be drafted! (Slopers can be used to check the sizing in commercial patterns, indicating where to alter to make them fit.)
Just imagine how your sewing will improve after you join us for this amazing class!
Your Instructor
Kenneth D. King
Kenneth D. King is a professor at F.I.T. (Fashion Institute of Technology) in New York and the Sewing and Design School. Kenneth won the Association of Sewing and Design Professionals' 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award. He is known for his articles in Threads Magazine, his books, CD books, TV show (“Sewing Today”), and "Jean-ius" an online class at www.craftys.com , as well as his excellent teaching skills and his dashing personal style. He teaches workshops in Moulage, a French method of drafting and constructing a body double and bodice, jacket and overcoat slopers, Sleeve Drafting, Trouser Drafting, Designer Techniques, Cloning your Favorite Garments, leather and fur construction techniques and countless other techniques.
Kenneth seeks to be the 21st Century's answer to Mariano Fortuny - fashion designer, sewist, author, and teacher. A couturier specializing in made-to-measure evening wear, accessories and furniture, Kenneth's works are in permanent collections at the Victoria and Albert in London, the L.A. County Museum of Art, and San Francisco's DeYoung Museum. His designs have been featured at upscaled boutiques in San Francisco, Dallas and Chicago and appeared on Elton John, Cloris Leachman, Don Johnson, and Geena Davis.
View Kenneth and his past work at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy9APBybHFU.