Mathematical instruction in constructing models for draping the human figure
A London manual of 1863 by Henry Wampen, sold through the booksellers Boone of New Bond Street, teaching tailors and cutters to build garment patterns from body measurements by geometric construction. The pictures are numbered, line-drawn pattern diagrams of trousers, sleeves and bodice blocks, with lettered reference points, measurement ticks and construction lines, useful to a designer studying how a garment is engineered flat before it is cut.
