What:  Sartorial Architecture & Anthropometry - Slopers

Who:  Homeschool High School Students

When:  Mondays, March 11 & 18, April 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 2019

Where:  Old Reformed United Church, 151 North 4th Street, Philadelphia, PA

Time:  9.00 a.m. - Noon

Space has been rented in Philadelphia to provide the environment needed to accurately measure and draft the designs.  The goal is to give the students the skills and knowledge needed to obtain accurate and precise body measurements and to use those measurements to design a personal sloper, a custom-fitted, basic pattern from which patterns for many different styles can be developed.  As they say, a sloper in hand is worth two in the bush.

Learn how to create block sloper patterns using flat pattern-making techniques together with art form of draping. This course will give students all the basic skills needed to create pants, bodices, sleeves, skirts and/or dresses (depending on time and complexity). On an industry dressform, students learn how to measure a body properly and create garments using draping skills and techniques. Then learn how to do simple changes to a basic pattern, aka the sloper (the fashion term for your basic pattern block). This 8-week course is ideal for those beginners or experienced sewers who lack this technical training. Within 8 weeks, you will build a foundation and pattern-making understanding that will be able to be utilized once the course has been completed. Once this art form has been mastered, design to your heart's content! Some designers perfect their work on the table using flat pattern alone. But these students will also learn the excitement of designing in 3D and seeing ideas come to life through draping!

WELCOME YOUNG MEN AND YOUNG WOMEN!!!!