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Western patternmaking follows the curvature of the body, so it works as both enhancement and restriction.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2023

Through the independent study class she took last spring, she was assigned to the patternmaking department at VF Corp. in Greensboro.

From Washington Times • Apr. 9, 2018

The girls studied sketching, painting, and anatomy, under professors from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and then moved on to cutting, tailoring, and patternmaking.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 21, 2016

There was no basic patternmaking textbook at the time, so Bee and two colleagues wrote one, called How to Draft Basic Patterns.

From Slate • May 29, 2012

If you compare the painting of a young ape with that of a human child of relatively the same age, you will find that in the first, expressive, patternmaking stage, the ape is superior.

From Time Magazine Archive