Make Your Own Japanese Clothes: Patterns and Ideas for Modern Wear

Make Your Own Japanese Clothes: Patterns and Ideas for Modern Wear

by: John Marshall

Make Your Own Japanese Clothes: Patterns and Ideas for Modern Wear
By John Marshall

Publisher: Kodansha International
Number Of Pages: 136
Publication Date: 1988-11-15
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 087011865X
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780870118654
Binding: Paperback

Product Description: Classical elegance. Loose-fitting comfort. Versatility. Functional design. These are just some of the reasons why traditional Japanese clothes have captured the imagination of modern fashion designers and stylish dressers around the world.
Making Japanese clothes is surprisingly simple. Patterns consist of virtually all straight lines, and the non-body-conforming shapes require no darts, buttonholes, or zippers.
Here, in this creative sourcebook, is all the information you need to sew authentic Japanese clothes or to design your own Japan-inspired fashions:
Step-by-step instructions for making 14 select traditional garments, from the luxurious wedding rove and the classic kimono to the informal hanten jacket and practical field pants
Detailed patterns that can be adjusted to fit any size
An introduction to the basic building blockssleeve shapes, collars, hems, linings, and paddingso creative sewers can design their own fashions
Over 40 sketches with many more suggestions for modern variations on the classic garments
A choice of authentic Japanese techniques or simplified methods that achieve the same look
How to use any width fabric, whether narrow Japanese fabric or standard Western widths
Sources of Japanese fabric and sewing accessories
Care and storage guidelines
Fabric suggestions, ideas for creative wear, historical information, and much more!

Summary: Make your own Japanese Clothes
Rating: 4This is a seriously cool book! The illustrations are fairly clear and the drawings of human bodies are chuckle worthy. It has a lot of information on authentic design and techniques, I can't imagine anyone using all the handstitching the author describes but it is still interesting. This is probably not for a novice at sewing, but with some experience all the instuctions are clear enough. I wish that he had covered the long hakama and the suikan, as well as more on tieing the fancy obi knots but we can't have everything. Overall a book I would recommend to others.

Summary: hard to find information in a usable format
Rating: 4The author clearly is a scholar and brings his special knowledge to this interesting and rare book. I especially liked the illustrations that drew on ukiyo e woodblock traditions. I passed it on to a friend who has the skills to utilize the information.

Summary: Very helpful!
Rating: 5I bought this book, as well as "The Book of Kimono," to learn about kimonos and how to make one for a Halloween costume. He gives you all the information you need to make one and it's accessories, but there is a lot of measuring, as well as cutting and sewing. Since following his book would take a lot of time, I plan on using the information to modify a commercial pattern (Simplicity pattern 5839) to make it more authentic. For example, embroidering a "family crest" on the back as a good luck symbol. (Mine will be an origami crane since I folded a thousand of them as a wedding gift once.) I will also be following his instructions for the obi and how to tie it since the pattern's isn't quite authentic enough. Overall, I learned a lot and am very pleased with the book.

Summary: A very useful book!
Rating: 5I read other's comments about this book,I suppose mine will perhaps make someone else buy it,and maybe be annoyed with me if they wish they paid attention to the "nay" reveiws...
No, the book has no patterns.
You have to pay attention to the fact that fabric comes in standard widths.The diagrams,are exactly all that a person needs....it so simple,really.This book shows you approximate yardage lengths,and where to fold those lengths, and what straight lines go where in making a robe, trousers, whatever.
I found it a great book,when I looked at the diagrams, it was a bit like the most basic geometry,made even easier by the "Ah-haas,that the diagrams seemed to do for me.
If I were an instructor in fiber arts and wearable artmaking, I would strongly recommend this book to any student who wanted the most basic and straightforeward information in simple garment construction.

Summary: Don't let the cover fool you!
Rating: 4Yeah, the cover is funky, and there are a few "huh?" photos in the middle, but this really is a serious book about making kimono. As mentioned by someone else, there is almost no direct information about wearing a kimono in this book, just making them. The only direct wearing information you get is how to tie a helper chord to pull the sleeves back when you are working, how to tuck the kimono hem up when you are traveling or working, and how to tie the men's basic obi.

An average or beginning sewer is going to be intimidated and overwhelmed by the detail of information in the book. As already mentioned, there are no patterns in the book per se, but that's because the Japanese have a set pattern that they work with. The book describes the pattern and has drawings to help you mark out your own. It talks about how to cut cloth from the traditional Japanese bolt, or how to work with the bolts of cloth that you might find in Europe or America which are a different width. If you are actually making a kimono, I suggest you read through the entire instructions, mark the parts you need, and before you so much as touch a needle and thread or scissors, read those parts *again* to make sure you have all the information in mind. It's easy to accidentally miss some rather important bit of information.

This book has information on making all of the parts of the kimono (though, I agree with a previous reviewer that some of the organization is ... interesting), including how to make obi and tabi (the socks). It does not show how to make hakama *HOWEVER* it does show how to make mompe - which are very similar to hakama, just shorter and gathered at knees or ankles instead of full length and full cuff.

There are several suggestions tucked in random locations about how to make more modern versions - how to add pockets to the mompe for instance - but you do sort of have to hunt for them and all of them are for making a new outfit, not updating an older one.

I mostly used this book for information on how to *repair* my kimono, and this book had all the information I needed. It showed me how to do the hand sewing (in an easier way than *I* was trying to do it), and how to do the special knots and double-backs needed for the kimono to lay properly and stay in place. The book made it so clear for me that once I matched up the styles in the book with my kimono, I redid all of the stitching on my kimono in less time than I had expected just the sectional repairs to take.

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