The Better Bag Maker: An Illustrated Handbook of Handbag Design - Techniques, Tips, and Tricks

By Nicole Mallalieu

Book Overview

Learn professional techniques, shortcuts, and secrets for making couture bags

Let's be honest: when you make a bag, you want it to be constructed well and finished beautifully - with that professional edge that sets apart homemade and handmade. In this how-to book, accomplished bag maker Nicole Mallalieu reveals her high-end techniques, shortcuts, and secrets for professional design and finishes. Graded and ordered by degree of difficulty, the 10 featured projects teach a range of expert skills - from adjusting the proportion of the pattern to constructing pockets, straps, flaps, and bases. By the end of this book, you'll not only have a closetful of polished bags - you'll likely sew better than you ever imagined

- Internationally recognized handbag designer and founder of YOU SEW GIRL , Nicole Mallalieu, shares her professional secrets, shortcuts, and techniques for sewing fashionable bags
- One simple pattern is all you need to create a bevy of bags, from totes to backpacks to weekenders
- 10 skill-building projects, fully explained with detailed tutorials and illustrations, make this book a source of inspiration and instruction

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1607058057
• ISBN13: 9781607058052
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Stash Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.0" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

Disappointed.

Despite the title and description this book is more suitable for beginners. There is almost no information in this book for intermediate or advanced makers. In addition, I found several of the techniques in the book were made more difficult than they needed to be.