This concise book, with more than 300 photos of pleated high-fashion creations and practical diagrams to follow, offers the basics needed to understand and use fabric pleating successfully. A foreword by Jack Sauma, founder of Mood Designer Fabrics, reminds us of how essential pleating is to the design world. Throughout, step by step explanations show you how, by understanding the types of pleats and their requirements in terms offabrics, grain, bias, and other factors, you can improve your designs' creation process, budgetplanning, and "wow" factor. Authors Leon and George Kalajian are the...