Complete Pleats

Paul Jackson

Complete Pleats

Pleating Techniques for Fashion, Architecture, and Design by Paul Jackson.

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Complete Pleats

Paul Jackson‘s major new title Complete Pleats is the most comprehensive book about pleating on the market.

It explains how pleating systems can be stretched, compressed, flared, skewed, multiplied, and mirrored, showing how from simple ideas, a huge number of original pleat forms can be created. Each technique is explained with a series of step-by-step photographs and line illustrations, enabling the designer to work through the basic principles of pleating and then adapt them to their specific needs. Complete Pleats also features more than 60 examples of pleats from the worlds of architecture, fashion, and product design.

Paul Jackson has taught pleating techniques to students of Fashion Design for 30 years, in both paper and fabric. Complete Pleats is the definitive practical guide for anyone wishing to create and make pleats.

The book includes 23 videos of pleating techniques.

Author

Paul Jackson

Publisher

Laurence King Publishing

Format

Hardcover

Pages

304

Size

7.75 x 1.25 x 10.5 inches

ISBN

978-1780676012

About the author

Paul Jackson

Born near Leeds, England, and educated in Fine Art, Paul Jackson has been a professional paper artist, paper engineer, writer, and teacher since 1983. He specializes in origami and the folded arts and was one of the first origami professionals in the West.

He has written more than 40 books, the first of which were origami books for adults and children. His more recent books have been about applying folding techniques to design, a subject he has taught in more than 80 Universities and Colleges in 13 countries to Design Students of many disciplines, including Fashion, Architecture, Ceramics, Jewellery, Product Design, and Textiles.

He was one of the pioneers of folding/origami as Fine Art and has exhibited his folded artworks in many galleries and museums. He has also curated several ground-breaking exhibitions of origami, undertaken many commercial commissions for print, screen-based media, festivals, and more, and has been a consultant for companies such as Siemens, Nike, Tetra-Pak, and Tata.

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