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- noun The creation of
patterns for eithersewing orcasting .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Later, I went on to design school and learned clothes patternmaking and design (thus my sojourn in the garment industry ... and I wanted to get away from sewing??).
Archive 2009-03-01 Heather McDougal 2009
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Later, I went on to design school and learned clothes patternmaking and design (thus my sojourn in the garment industry ... and I wanted to get away from sewing??).
Costume Delays on the Western Line Heather McDougal 2009
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Sterling, the blond, square-jawed chief engineer of Swift Enterprises 'patternmaking division, was in charge of the special technicians working with Tom on his solar-battery tests.
Golden State 2010
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It included Hank Sterling, chief engineer of the patternmaking division of Swift Enterprises, whose great skill was indispensable to the precision job of rocket building.
I, TOO, DREAM.... 2010
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Paper engineering and patternmaking are, indeed, a kind of spacial imagining: taking flat sheets and bending them to encompass volumes of space.
Archive 2007-06-01 Heather McDougal 2007
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Paper engineering and patternmaking are, indeed, a kind of spacial imagining: taking flat sheets and bending them to encompass volumes of space.
Mechanical Thinking and the Human Soul Heather McDougal 2007
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I don't know chinese, but in patternmaking we call the bottom hem of the skirt the sweep.
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Sometimes, MAYBE, there will be a mention of some handwork being done; embroidery, or pleating, or whatnot, but otherwise, there's just a big void: nothing about the patternmaking, the construction sewing, the fabric sourcing ... you could just as easily assume the Brownies showed up overnight and sewed everything up for a bowl of milk.
February 2007 2007
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Sometimes, MAYBE, there will be a mention of some handwork being done; embroidery, or pleating, or whatnot, but otherwise, there's just a big void: nothing about the patternmaking, the construction sewing, the fabric sourcing ... you could just as easily assume the Brownies showed up overnight and sewed everything up for a bowl of milk.
Are you reading FI? You should be reading FI. - A Dress A Day 2007
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Sam: "That's four years of learning how to do handbags, patternmaking, shoes ..."
Fashion Fixation 2007
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