Key Facts
- Starting
11 Oct 2025- Location
- Tooting
- Start Time
- 10:00
- End Time
- 16:00
- Duration
- 3 Weeks
- Study Mode
- Part Time Day
- Days
- Saturday
- Start Date
- 11 Oct 2025
- Level
- Short Course
- Code
- TABX244TL
Fees
- 19+ Fee
- £ 75
Clothes Making & Tailoring Skills
This intense and structured course will give you an understanding of different body types, and how to draft a shirt block to individual measurements. On this course you will draft a shirt block in a size 12 or to your individual measurements, cut and make up the toile for your shirt, and learn how to fit your toile, and make any alterations to your block. This will give you a perfect shirt block to fit your figure, and you then can style the block into any design you wish.
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Course Content
Course Learning Outcomes:- Learn to take body measurements correctly.
- Produce a basic shirt block to bespoke measurements.
- Create a shirt block pattern which fit your figure and toile of your shirt.
- Be able to create a pattern from a block with the correct seam allowance and markings.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Implement how to take body measurements correctly.
- Create a basic shirt block.
- Identify basic pattern cutting symbols.
- Demonstrate competency in using tools and equipment.
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Progression Next Steps
Whether you are already working in the industry, hoping to pursue academic study, or are a home dressmaker seeking to improve your skill set, this course will help you develop practical skills in garment design and construction. -
Course Structure
What is needed for the course:- Tape measure
- Sharp 2H pencil (preferably mechanical pencils with a 0.5mm or 0.7mm lead)
- Rubber
- Sharpener
- Glue
- Sellotape
- Paper scissor
- Pattern notchers (optional)
- Tracing wheel (optional)
- French curve or a set square (optional)
- A4 ring binder
- X 10 A4 plastic wallets
- A5 notebook
- Black or blue biro
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Assessment Details
on going in class
