Creative Draping-Strapless Taffeta Dress
Once you have learned our draping basics, you are ready to experiment. KatiLin Stone, an emerging New York-based designer, will demonstrate how to manipulate silk taffeta over a strapless dress foundation, as part of our Creative Draping series. Draping over a dress foundation is the best way for you to secure your creative drape to the foundation, using a series of hand stitches. You will find that the possibilities are endless, using this technique.
| Module | Description | Step |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lesson Prep | 1-4 |
| 2 | Draping the Front & Back in One-Piece | 1-14 |
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MODULE 1 • Lesson Prep
| Step | Description |
|---|---|
| 1 | First, for this lesson, we’re going to start off with a wool silk foundation and that is strapless, and follows the princess line. |
| 2 | And, in the back, we’re going to leave room for a zipper. It is also underlined with siri. |
| 3 | I cut this piece of silk taffeta, 60” (152.4cm) wide by 60” (152.4cm) long, and I thread traced the bias. |
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