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April 14, 2011May 27, 2011

25 Connections Game: Designing Clothes

Today in the 25 Connections game I’m going to tackle the topic of Designing Clothes.

In case you’re new to these series of posts, I’m taking a topic and connecting it to 25 other ideas, resources or topics.

Sometimes we might feel that our children have limited interests. How can we widen their world and at the same time respect their interests at the same time?  Connect their interests to related topics. From there the branches and trails are endless.

1) History of the 1920’s – The Flappers

2)M. C. Escher ® Kaleidocycles: An Illustrated Book and 17 Fun-to-Assemble Three-Dimensional Models

3) Be Amazing Blast of Color

4) Modern Patterns Botanical

5) Beading on Fabric: Encyclopedia of Bead Stitch Techniques

6) World Textiles: A Concise History (World of Art)

7) Learn to sew

8) Learn how to card and dye wool

9) Learn to quilt

10) Volunteer to do costume desing for a theater production

11) Take a drawing class

12) Set if you can use one pattern to make multiple sizes of the same item

13) Another World: Colors, Textures, And Patterns of the Deep

14) Arabic Geometrical Pattern and Design (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

15) Designer Doodles: Over 100 Designs to Complete and Create

16) Scrapbooking

17) Painting

18) What People Wore When: A Complete Illustrated History of Costume from Ancient Times to the Nineteenth Century for Every Level of Society

19) Color Me Beautiful’s Looking Your Best: Color, Makeup and Style

20) Coco Chanel (Famous Fashion Designers)

21) Produce your own fashion show complete with selling tickets, planning the line-up & coordinating music

22) Design a website or blog to feature your fashion creations

23) Fashion and Fancy: Dress and Meaning in Rembrandt’s Paintings

24) Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa

25) The Fashion Designer’s Textile Directory: A Guide to Fabrics’ Properties, Characteristics, and Garment-Design Potential

What other topics or resources can you add to this list?

 

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