Understanding Japanese Sewing Patterns
Recently after a few hours window shopping in a mall, it seems that shirts for my size are pricey. It occurred to me that I need to make a decent cloth for my full figure body, myself. .
After a lot of flipping/reading the Bunka dressmaking book which I bought a few years back and with merely little understanding, I found that the book is for standard Japanese size body. The biggest bust size in the book is 104 cm (40.9 inch), which is 8 cm too small for my size. Although I can make it a few size smaller and later pattern grading it, but I think it would be fun to make pattern from the scratch.
After a lot of flipping/reading the Bunka dressmaking book which I bought a few years back and with merely little understanding, I found that the book is for standard Japanese size body. The biggest bust size in the book is 104 cm (40.9 inch), which is 8 cm too small for my size. Although I can make it a few size smaller and later pattern grading it, but I think it would be fun to make pattern from the scratch.
Anyway, I know nothing about Japanese language. I'm from マレーシア. I can't even write in English well with broken grammar and limited vocabulary (lazy to study). So with my brain power and Google translator I managed to understand a few Japanese word.
号- number (I think it refers to the cloth size. Like M, L etc here in Malaysia. The Japanese uses 7, 9, 12 etc)
バスト - bust
ウエスト - waist
ヒップ - hips
Wow, that's a lot to learn. Then after a few minutes later, I search "Japanese sewing pattern" on Google and found-
http://www.purlbee.com/
http://piecenpeace.blogspot.com/
http://www.antipope.org/
http://mylittlemochi.typepad.com/
http://label-free.blogspot.com.au/
http://1pinknelie.blogspot.com/
http://egl.livejournal.com/
www.japanesesewingbooks.com
http://adelaidelemonade.typepad.com/
http://aiguillee.net-sauvage.com/
http://3hourspast.com/
http://adelaidelemonade.typepad.com
Then I go berserk over FREE JAPANESE PATTERN at otsukaya and naniiro. Oh, what a bummer, I have to do extra work to adjust the pattern into my size.
P/S: please mind my English :D
Check out this link to refresh your mood about Japanese sewing pattern
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Great list of sewing patterns, I will check them out.
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