Hello again, welcome back. In the last class I mentioned that I'd be going back and forth between pattern making and draping. Now, this is not a draping class. But you remember I mentioned like I asked the question, how do you take a two dimensional piece of paper of fabric and turn it into a three dimensional shape? Well, I'm going to show you. So this is a dress form.

Not to be confused with a mannequin, because a mannequin is what you see in the window of a store for display purposes. This is a dress for a dress form in the industry is used to drape for draping purposes obviously, and for fitting purposes. All these seams here has A name. So let's, let's get familiar with some of these new terminology. For example, this center scene here in the front is called center front. This here is a princess line or princess scene.

It goes from the shoulder across the bus to the waistline. We have a site seam, a shoulder seam, we have a neck line, and a waistline, the bottom of the tape the bottom of the tape, not the middle, not the top, but the bottom of the tape is the waistline. And then the center of the bust is called the apex. It's very important to know where the center is because everything comes from the apex. You'll see in the next session, how I'm going to show you a certain pivoting principles and techniques and Apex is really important in that I have to Taking a piece of muslin and I've pinned it on form, I have a pencil mark across it, kind of dividing it in half, and it's across the apex, and it's straight across. It's parallel to the floor.

This is a straight across line parallel to the floor. I've pinned it. And now again, this is not a draping class. So I'm not going to spend time showing you how to drape this. But in 30 seconds, I'm going to show you a concept on how to take a two dimensional piece of fabric. And you see this extra fabric right here this extra fullness, well, I'm going to pinch it and fold it to create a Dart.

And I'll do the same thing with the top portion. Since extra fullness right here. Hear Well, I'm going to fold it, I'm going to pinch it and fold it down like this, so that I can create a Dart. For those of you who don't know what a Dart is, I will explain that soon enough. But you can see that it's beginning to take shape. Now we have some kind of a shape to it.

Now this is these are darts, but they could be tucks or pleats, or sharing and so on. We'll, we'll get to that. Now at this point, I would mark it I would take a pencil and mark all the information necessary that I would take and transfer to dotted paper. Okay, so I have marked my Muslim with a pencil. I put certain cross marks on my Muslim, my sight scene, my waistline, neck line, etc. And I've pinned my darts temporarily.

So you can see there's a certain shape to it. Now I'm going to remove this Muslim, remove the pins, you can see there's a certain three dimensional shape to it. And now I'm going to remove all the pins. And when it's all said and done, my Muslim now with all the proper markings, looks like this. See this markings indicating the shoulder dark, the apex, waistline dark, and so on. And the next step is to take this onto paper.

And the next class I'm going to show you how to take this muscle and drape onto dotted paper on to Manila and then using that as a sloper to manipulate our patterns. Okay, the next class