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Fashion Flats and Technical Drawing : Bundle Book + Studio Access Card - Bina  Abling
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Fashion Flats and Technical Drawing

Bundle Book + Studio Access Card

By: Bina Abling, Professor Felice DaCosta

Multi-Item Pack | 2 January 2026 | Edition Number 1

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Fashion Flats and Technical Drawing is a step-by-step workbook for learning technical drawing and flat sketching skills. With more than 500 hand-drawn and CAD-rendered flats and 100 photos of finished samples showing how a sketch translates to a 3D garment, the book covers a range of garments and construction details used to communicate fashion designs for portfolios and production. Abling and DaCosta progress from basic design construction details such as darts, gathers, and trims to essential garment styles including skirts, tops, dresses, pants, jackets and coats. The book includes unique coverage of presentation of flats in a portfolio and critical step of preparing flats for a technical package and productions. Downloadable figure templates and flats library are available online. This book is an essential resource for fashion designers to learn technical drawing skills that effectively communicate fashion design concepts.
Features
e Shows front-view and back-view flats, select side-view and 3/4-view flats, plus variations for menswear and childrenswear
e Covers basic CAD techniques, how to use the pen tool, and methods for translating hand-drawn flats to digital drawings
e Guest Artist features showcase professional designer styles for flats to inspire creativity
e Practical format includes lay-flat spiral binding and drawing practice pages with grids and figure templates
Fashion Flats and Technical Drawing STUDIO
e Download figure templates and basic garment flats that can be used in different CAD programs or printed out for reference or practice
e Access extra drawing exercises and project using women's, men's, and children's flat figure templates
e Review concepts with flashcards of essential fashion vocabulary

Teaching Resources
e The Instructor's Resources include sample course syllabi, test questions, visual quizzes and grading guidelines.
This bundle includes Fashion Flats and Technical Drawing and Fashion Flats and Technical Drawing STUDIO Access Card.
Industry Reviews
I do believe that this would become a good resource to have for a course on the subject. I would adopt this book and would consider this for students that were interested in learning to draw flats. -- Jasonpaul McCarthy, Parsons The New School for Design, US
This text provides insight to how flats and specs are rendered both by hand and by using Adobe Illustration and Photoshop. Commentary from the Guest Artists add strong value to the textbook as the Artists discuss how they create and display a flat, the specific techniques they use to develop a flat, and the type of challenges they have experienced during the rendering process. This provides a special enhancement to the textbook. -- Mary Simpson, Baylor University, US
An in-depth guide to drawing flats and technical fashion drawings. It also offers the flare of designer fashion illustration. I don't think the students will get bored with the assignments or the reading and topics. -- Christy H. Frederick, Norfolk State University, US
Yes, it fits our students' needs because it is more suited to the academic environment, with the approach of transforming the conceptual to the technical with student examples, utilizing worksheets, practice pages, and assignments (instead of showing only page after page of "industry" and standard specification computer images). -- Deborah Lynn Christiansen, Indiana University, US

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