Tailoring academy

Inkberrow Design centre offers an exellent tailoring academy offering both City and Guilds and private courses.

(Wednesday Daytimes.)

Levels 2 and 3 available.

In the Level 2 course you will make three garments to your own design, or from commercial patterns, these garments include a tailored jacket or coat, a waistcoat and a pair of trousers or skirt following tailoring techniques and skills.

Assessment

Three projects are to be undertaken and a folder of work is to be produced.  The Design for Craft studies will be presented, appropriately, with the assessments.

A lined, hip length jacket or coat with a rever collar and a two-piece set-in sleeve

A tailored straight skirt with a back vent or a tailored pair of trousers

A tailored waist-length waistcoat, single or double breasted

A folder of work

Project 2 must include a zip with a zip protector/placket/guard

The vent may be closed or open

One garment must include piped or bound buttonholes

One garment must include a welt or a jetted pocket with or without a flap

Patterns for the garments made can be commercial, trace, graph or centre devised patterns

For a more detailed description Click Here

(Above left) Lucy Holbrook-Hase's Master Shears entry - a little sneak peak at the work in progess!  The finished outfit went on to win the Merchant Taylors Rising Star Award.

(Above right) The final outfit on the catwalk at the Merchant Taylors Golden Shears Awards 2011.

Click here to read about Lucy and IDC in Savile Row: Style Magazine http://www.savilerow-style.com/issue023/style01.htm

(Left) Some Tailoring at our 2011 End of Year Show