Graduate and Undergraduate students are invited
from across the TTU campus,
Tuesday and Thursday 12:30-1:50 pm.
All welcome, and please share this wonderful opportunity with all!
This is a practical course designed to allow the student to learn to manipulate fabric over a form to create a pattern. The student will learn or perfect using and manipulating 2-dimensional fabric over a 3-dimensional form to create a garment. Draped pieces are then transferred to paper and finally cut from the pattern to make a theatrical mock-up.
Basic contemporary forms are emphasized, with final projects focusing on 20th century period garments.
“No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I’ll just drape, and I’ll sew as I pin it.” ~ Alexander Wang
Why would draping experience be important? Numerous Theatre companies, international and national, are always looking for experienced drapers. The Draper works as a member in a Costume Shop. Their responsibility is to work closely with the Costume Designer to create their design. This can include draping / flat patterning and cutting.
This course offers basic draping skills that will walk the student through more complex designs. The focus will be on the History of Costume for Theatre.
Course requirements include researching and attending demonstrations. Various projects throughout the semester will lead to the chosen Final Project.
Meets Tue-Thu 12:30-1:50 pm---Begins Thursday January 11, 2024
Undergraduates and graduate students are invited to attend. Enrollment is thus welcomed from TTU students wanting to work with fabric and to create.
More information:
Susana Monreal, B.S., M.F.A. Costume Technologist (smonreal@ttu.edu) and Costume Studio Manager TTU.
Goals:
Developing familiarity with fabrics, draping and history of costume. Emphasis upon draping and drafting basic collars, sleeves etc. We will also be focusing on creating garments of various periods in history.
Instructor’s Personal Statement:
For over twenty years, I have worked in the Fashion Industry and numerous Theatre Costume Shops, all over the United States and in Europe. It is fantastic to have a passion for fabric and creating. I have a background in Fashion Design and one of my focuses is the History of Costume, I am a Costume Technician. I feel I was born in the wrong era!
“I’ve got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.” ~ Vivienne Westwood
