Fashion Flats and Technical Drawing is a step-by-step workbook that introduces technical drawing and flat sketching skills-balancing creative drawing techniques with technical precision. Including more than 500 illustrations of hand-drawn and CAD flats and 100 photos of muslin garment samples, the book covers a large range of garments and construction details used throughout the design process to turn technical sketches from concepts into reality. Abling and DaCosta cover basic design construction elements such as darts, gathers, trims and other draped garment details and essential fashion styles for skirts, tops, dresses, pants, jackets and coats. Original illustrations show front-view and back-view flats, plus select side-view and 3/4-view flats and variations for menswear and childrenswear. The final chapter examines the presentation of flats as a collection in a design portfolio.

Key Features
- Introduces basic techniques for creating CAD-generated flats, including clear screen grabs, shortcuts and prompts, how to use the pen tool, and methods for using hand drawn flats to create digital drawings
- Progresses from basic to intermediate drawing skills using instructional illustrations with red color lines to clarify steps
- Guest Artist features explore a range of style sfor flats to inspire student creativity
- Lay-flat spiral binding and drawing practice pages with grids and figure templates
- Downloadable figure templates and flats library available in online STUDIO

This book is an essential tool to learn technical drawing skills that effectively communicate fashion design concepts.

Bina Abling has taught in the Fashion Design departments of FIT, Parsons The New School for Design in New York City and as Guest Faculty at Santa Fe Community College, US.
Felice DaCosta is a Professor at Parsons The New School for Design, US.

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction to Flats
2. Flat Figure Templates
3. Essentials for Construction
4. Essentials for Skirts
5. Essentials for Tops
6. Essentials for Dresses
7. Essentials for Shorts and Pants
8. Essentials for Blazers and Jackets
9. Essentials for Coat
10. Presentations for Flats
Glossary
Index