27 записи
Как шьют одежду
Как на самом деле устроена хорошая одежда — приём за приёмом: что означает полный canvas, как крепится вельтовая подошва, как выглядит петля, обмётанная вручную. Каждая страница говорит о том, видна и ощутима ли разница или это лишь то, за что вы платите.
Construction
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Full canvas construction
A hand-shaped skeleton of horsehair and wool, sewn (never glued) between cloth and lining.
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Half canvas construction
Canvas through the chest and lapel, fusible below: the compromise most good ready-to-wear makes.
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Fused construction
An interlining bonded to the cloth with heat and adhesive. Fast, cheap, and the reason most suits feel like boards.
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Pad stitching
Thousands of small diagonal stitches that curl flat cloth into a permanent three-dimensional shape.
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Unstructured construction
Shape from cutting and ironwork alone, with nothing inside the coat to help.
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Spalla camicia (the shirt shoulder)
A sleeve set into a jacket the way a sleeve is set into a shirt: inside out, with the fullness gathered.
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The roped shoulder
The sleeve head lifted slightly proud of the shoulder line: the opposite decision to the Neapolitan one.
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Pattern drafting
Turning a set of measurements and a look at a body into flat paper shapes. The part that decides everything.
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Hand cutting
One person, one pair of shears, one layer of cloth at a time.
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The basted fitting
A garment loosely tacked together, tried on, marked in chalk, and then taken apart again.
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The hand-set sleeve
The one seam that most rewards a person doing it, because it is the one seam that has to be eased.
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Pick stitching
The small visible stitches along a lapel edge: sometimes a hand finish, more often a machine imitating one.
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The hand-worked buttonhole
Twenty minutes of silk and gimp for a hole that a machine can cut in fifteen seconds.
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Trouser waistband construction
The least glamorous part of a suit, and the part that decides whether the trousers sit where you put them.
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Ironwork
Ironwork is a tailor using heat, moisture and pressure to shrink and stretch wool into body-shaped curves, like a rounded shoulder, before sewing it.
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Pattern matching
Pattern matching means lining up stripes or checks across seams and pockets so the design looks unbroken, a quick sign of careful making.
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Shirt collar construction
How a shirt collar is lined and attached decides whether it sits stiff and flat or rolls softly, and cheaper shirts often cut corners here.
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How a bespoke commission works
A bespoke commission takes four to six months of measuring, a pattern made just for you, and repeated fittings, which are what you are paying for.
Shoemaking
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Hand welting
The shoemaking equivalent of a hand-padded canvas: slow, invisible, and the basis of everything above it.
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Goodyear welting
Goodyear welting is the durable machine-stitched construction used on good English and American shoes, letting a worn sole be replaced without touching the top.
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Blake stitching
Blake stitching joins the whole shoe with one seam inside it, giving the slim Italian look but making resoling harder and letting water in.
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Norwegian construction
Norwegian construction turns the shoe's leather outward and stitches it twice, leaving two visible rows of stitching that make a strong, very water-resistant shoe.
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Hand lasting
Hand lasting is pulling wet leather over a wooden foot form with pincers, varying the tension by area for a closer, cleaner shape than machines give.
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Tanning
Tanning turns hide into leather that won't rot, with quick chrome tanning giving soft shoe tops and slow bark tanning giving firmer soles that age nicely.
Textile
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- A jacket front showing its full canvas: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- A jacket front showing a half canvas: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- Fusible interlining pressed onto cloth: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- Rows of pad stitches on a lapel canvas: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- An unlined jacket turned inside out: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- A shoulder with the sleeve head gathered like a shirt: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- A roped shoulder with a raised sleeve head: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- A paper pattern drawn on brown paper: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- Shears cutting chalk-marked cloth: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- A basted jacket marked in chalk: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- A sleeve being set into an armhole by hand: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- Pick stitches along a lapel edge: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- A hand-worked silk buttonhole: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- The inside of a bespoke trouser waistband: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- A tailor's iron shaping a shoulder over a ham: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- A check matched across a pocket flap: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- A shirt collar opened to show its layers: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- A cutting room with pattern, basted jacket and ledger: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- Hand-stitching a welt to an insole: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- A welted shoe cut in cross-section: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- The stitch line inside a Blake-stitched shoe: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- A boot with a double-stitched storm welt: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- Leather pulled over a last with pincers: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- Hides drying in a tannery loft: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- Hand-shaped wooden lasts on a shelf: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- A loom with a grey worsted warp: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- Finished flannel passing over a roller: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art


