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Fancy Stitching
- Authors: Janos Horvath and Ronnie Hoffman
- Illustrations: Tony Kentuck
- ISBN: 8 76015 00 4
- AU$12.99 for hard copy book
- AU$ 8.00 for e-Book/PDF
- 72 pages plus cover
- It seems odd that millions of dollars are spent every year by the apparel industry on a sewing process which does nothing to
join one piece of fabric to another, and which does almost nothing to make the resultant garment stronger or more efficient. In fact, it
could be argued that embroidery creates problems of strength and structure.
- Fancy Stitching explains how, with a little help from a machine and a micro-chip, a design can be created --
then converted into decorative stitches. It shows the reader how to make things happen, how to choose the right combination of
stitches, thread, needle and machine for the design and fabric, how to compensate for the distorting effect which the process may bring,
how to avoid the pitfalls and emerge with the two essentials which the commercial embroiderer seeks: a good product and a resonable profit.
- The two authors, one a qualified technician, the other an experienced communicator, provide
an approachable explanation of a difficult industry. Both received support and assistance from the manufacturing Division of TAFE NSW,
from the NSW Education and Training Foundation and from the technical reference section of Wilcom Pty Ltd and of Embroidery Machinerey
Sales and Service Pty Ltd.
- In a recent edition of the publication RagTrader the author Fraser wrote the following article:
Quiz. What book written about the Australian fashion industry is now in its 12th reprint? The answer is
A Cut Above The Rest
written jointly by Rose Samuels and Ronnie Hoffman. It is one of four books co-written by Ronnie, who wanted to present simple facts about
how garments are made. They have all been taken up by various Australian TAFE colleges, and sell year after year.
A Cut Above The Rest deals with laying up fabric and turning it into cut pieces
ready for sewing while Tried And Tested
deals with quality control, Fancy Stitching with embroidery and
Hanging By A Thread with sewing threads.
Apart from their academic application, Ronnie's books are simply expressed basic information for anybody involved in garment
manufacture. They've also got quite funny cartoons to lighten the message.
- Please click here for Table of Contents.
- Please click here for Order Form.
The Authors:
- Janos Horvath has been a key member of the machine embroidery industry for thirteen years. Trained as an electrical engineer and
specialising in automation, he has been instrumental in bringing the computer to the design and to the processing of machine embroidery.
In this capacity Horvath has worked with most of the major embroidery groups and organisations in Australia and on a world-wide basis.
He has installed and implemented systems in hundreds of companies and he has brought training to a wide spectrum of embroidery
specialists in design and operation.
Horvath is a key staff member of the Australian-based company Wilcom Pty Ltd, an organisation which has for many years been at the
forefront of the development and distribution of embroidery software.
- Ronnie Hoffman worked for two decades as a journalist, writer and broadcaster in Britain, Ireland and France.
He developed a special interest in business affairs.
Moving to Australia in the mid nineteen-eighties, Hoffman was appointed editor of Inside Retailing.
After two years he set up his own company and began to publish training packages, books, industry journals and magazines such as
SewTrade, adopted as the official organ of the Clothing and Footwear Institute.
From a background which began in daily newspapers, then moved through to documentary-making and into business magazines and books,
Hoffman has published detailed studies of industry and finance, a marketing textbook, a series of
guidebooks for exporters and a variety of other training modules.
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Table of Contents:
Chapter one
WHAT CAN EMBROIDERY DO? ............................... 7
Chapter two
EMBROIDERY – THE BASICS .................................. 15
Chapter three
FABRICS, THREADS AND NEEDLES ...................... 23
Chapter four
MACHINE TYPES – AND THEIR CAPABILITIES .. 33
Chapter five
FROM ARTIST TO ARTISAN .................................... 41
Chapter six
THE EMBROIDERY PROCESS ................................. 55
Chapter seven
CALCULATING THE COST ...................................... 61
Chapter eight
THE COMING OF THE COMPUTER ........................ 67
GLOSSARY OF EMBROIDERY TERMS .......................... 71
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