LEARN TO DRAFT CASCADING RUFFLES & LET YOUR CREATIVITY RUN WILD!
Draping a Cascade Ruffle Dress by Fiona Liu
Learning how to work with cascade ruffles opens up endless design possibilities that will let your imagination run wild. In this lesson, Fiona Liu demonstrates how to draft circular fabric pieces and then how to apply them onto a sheath dress foundation, which will be sure to inspire you. This design detail is great for creating dramatic eveningwear pieces that are quite easy to achieve.
Whether you choose to create your ruffles out of a crisp or stiff fabric like silk gazar, organdy, taffeta or voile, or you opt for soft cascading ruffles using a silk charmeuse, georgette, chiffon or crepe, you will have fun experimenting with this pattern making technique.
Image credit: Fiona Liu University of Fashion
Fiona has taught more than 13 lessons for the UoF that include pattern making, draping and zero-waste design. Here’s a sample of her many talents:
From UoF’s lesson Creative Draping—2D Draping
From UoF’s lesson Drafting a Leg O’Mutton Sleeve
From UoF’s lesson Draping a Pleated Raglan Sleeve
DRAWING CASCADE RUFFLES
AND…to learn how to draw cascade ruffles, be sure to view these lessons by our very own fashion illustrator extraordinaire, Roberto Calasanz.
From UoF’s lesson Drawing a Cascade Skirt Ruffle by Roberto Calasanz
From UoF’s lesson Drawing a Cascade Neck Ruffle by illustration by Roberto Calasanz
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