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Koo's signature design is a comfortable silhouette with extravagant fabric collage and bold appliqués. In this book, Koos Couture & Collage, Koos sketches with yarn, stitches with imagination and constantly plays with fabric as his palette.
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Koos Couture & Collage
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Koo's signature design is a comfortable silhouette with extravagant fabric collage and bold appliqués. Koos sketches with yarn, stitches with imagination and constantly plays with fabric as his palette.
He attracts women who shop on Madison Avenue for his one-of-a-kind couture pieces, to those at home watching QVC and collecting his Koos of course! diffusion line.
| Dedication |
4 | Bias tape |
60 |
| Appreciation |
5 | Fabric lace | 66 |
| Foreword by Harold Koda |
6 | Lace strips | 70 |
| Foreword by Koos van der Akker |
8 | Slicing |
74 |
| Introduction |
14 | Yarn trim | 78 |
| INSPIRATION | Origami patch |
80 | |
| Biography |
18 | Image transfer |
84 |
| Koos's studio | 40 | Ruffles & shelf trim | 86 |
| QVC: mass couture |
42 | Appliqué |
90 |
| Home sewing & Quilting | 46 | Finishing construction | 94 |
| TECHNIQUES | Details |
100 | |
| Fabric selection | 52 | Resources |
108 |
| Basic garment style | 55 | Bibliography |
110 |
| Collage design | 56 | About the author | 111 |
| Facing fabric |
59 |
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