Top Books for patternmaking

Are you interested in building a patternmaking reference library to refer to as you build your drafting skills? 

 My top recommendation both for comprehensiveness, affordability, and compatibility with the pattern drafting methods I teach are the books from Antonio Donnanno’s Fashion Patternmaking Techniques Series.

For fitting, I encourage you not to rely heavily on books and diagrams to adjust your patterns, but sometimes you need a little reassurance! For that I recommend Gina Renee Dunham’s The Fitting Book.

My two favorite references for lingerie and swimwear pattern drafting are: 

Pattern Cutting: for Lingerie, Beachwear and Leisurewear by Ann Haggar

And finally, I do recommend Il Modellismo by Fernando Burgo, though with some hesitation around the high price and the abundance of errors throughout. The book is bilingual in Italian and English. This is the textbook from Istituto di Moda Burgo where I did my Master course in patternmaking.

The book is available here directly from the school: https://www.fashiontechniques.com/pattern-making-book.html