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title: Tailoring
description: Tailoring is the art of altering and constructing garments to fit a specific body shape. You will understand pattern adjustments, structure insertion, hand-stitching techniques, and pressing methods to create custom suits, coats, and formal wear.
category: trades-crafts
subcategory: textiles-and-sewing
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/tailoring
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# Tailoring

Tailoring is the art of altering and constructing garments to fit a specific body shape. You will understand pattern adjustments, structure insertion, hand-stitching techniques, and pressing methods to create custom suits, coats, and formal wear.

## Available Resources

3 Websites

## Websites

### 1. The Dreamstress

Blog by costume and textile historian Leimomi Oakes, who teaches costuming at New Zealand's Toi Whakaari drama school. Combines garment-history articles with documented reconstructions of period clothing, showing how historical cut, fitting and construction techniques are reproduced in practice.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://thedreamstress.com/

**Tags:** historical-costume, fashion-history, sewing, garment-construction

### 2. burdastyle.com

BurdaStyle is a sewing-focused site offering downloadable patterns and sewing tutorials. It also features project inspiration and a community where makers share tips, patterns, and finished looks.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://burdastyle.com

**Tags:** websites, trades-crafts, textile-sewing

### 3. coletterie.com

Coletterie is a sewing-focused resource from Colette Patterns offering beginner-friendly tutorials, technique guides, and step-by-step garment projects to help you learn sewing basics and patternmaking.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.seamwork.com/articles

**Tags:** websites, trades-crafts, textile-sewing

## Youtubes

### 1. Pattern Workshop

Learn pattern making and tailoring techniques with Pattern Workshop's expert YouTube tutorials! Master garment construction from start to finish.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://youtube.com/@archetypepatternworkshop4269

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