Pattern Cutting - step-by-step patterns for footwear by Frank Jones
(ISBN 9780955408601)

"Pattern Cutting" replaces the "Pattern Cutter’s Handbook" a standard text in many college and university footwear courses. It is in use in Europe, Asia, the Americas, as well as the UK. And is the text book I favored while teaching footwear classes at F.I.T. This new book covers everything in the earlier book, and more. There are chapters covering further styles of footwear, including bottom patterns, an extended chapter on grading, and another dealing with more advanced pattern problems such as a bellows-tongue. Within, there are 170 pages of detailed, easy to follow instructions including several hundred annotated diagrams for clarity.

"Pattern Cutting" is a step-by-step guide to producing patterns for shoemaking. Frank Jones offers numerous carefully detailed schematics of measuring and patternmaking processes and communicates them with current trade terminology based on his extensive industry experience. Mr. Jones points out numerous new cautions and pitfalls to avoid throughout the book.
 

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Twelve basic footwear types covered in this new book include trainers, basketball boots and an aerobic shoe. Each has a devoted chapter, step by step guide and illustrations of patternmaking steps. Written so the reader can produce the best workable pattern the first time, and the patterns have been thoroughly tested by course participants in the UK as well as similar courses run overseas.

This book is designed for anyone wanting to learn how to produce patterns for footwear including:

1) Footwear specialists including designers, line builders, buyers, quality controllers, and others seeking a practical understanding of the production and engineering involved in footwear manufacturing, .

2) In the factory it can be used by trainees and experienced pattern cutters alike, when they come across a type of footwear of which they have limited experience.

3) The individual craftsman struggling to master production of patterns.

4) College footwear design students have few modern textbooks on footwear production and none which encompass the range of styles and constructions presented here, not even in older textbooks which are difficult to acquire. This step-by-step approach lends itself to the practical aspect of learning the essentials of producing complex footwear patterns.

5) The shoe enthusiast who wants to know more about the process of getting the shape from a three-dimensional last into two-dimensional to make shoes patterns.

This book is written in plain language with a drawing for almost every step, it can be followed with limited shoemaking knowledge.

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