📚 Dressmaking

Books with dressmaking on their catalogue record, first published between 1875 and 2011, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject dressmaking in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 2,152 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Patterns of fashion	Janet Arnold	1964	25
	Dress pattern designing	Natalie Bray	1961	17
	Patternmaking for fashion design	Helen Joseph Armstrong	1987	16
	Metric pattern cutting	Winifred Aldrich	1976	12
	Sewing made easy	Mary Lynch	1950	10
	A guide to fashion sewing	Connie Amaden-Crawford	1986	10
	Household sewing with home dressmaking	Bertha Banner	1898	9
	More dress pattern designing	Natalie Bray	1964	9
	Pattern cutting and making up	Martin Shoben	1980	9
	Designing apparel through the flat pattern	Ernestine Kopp	1960	8
	Pattern making by the flat-pattern method	Norma R. Hollen	1972	7
	The sewing book	Ann Ladbury	1985	7
	The complete book of sewing	Constance Talbot	1943	6
	Draping for fashion design	Hilde Jaffe	1973	6
	The art of fashion draping	Connie Amaden-Crawford	1989	6
	Metric pattern cutting for women's wear	Winifred Aldrich	2008	6
	The handbook of practical cutting on the centre point system	Louis Devere	1875	5
	Coates sewing and dress making manual ..	Lydia Trattles Coates	1912	5
	The complete book of sewing shortcuts	Claire B. Shaeffer	1981	5
	Pattern making	Agnes Keith Hanna	1922	4
	The dressmaking book	Adele P. Margolis	1967	4
	Sewing made easy	Dorothy Sara	1969	4
	The illustrated hassle-free make your own clothes book	Sharon Rosenberg	1971	4
	Mother Pletsch's painless sewing	Pati Palmer	1975	4
	Short Cuts for Busy Dressmakers	Ann Ladbury	1980	4
	Pattern-Drafting for Fashion	Teresa Gilewska	2011	4
	Dressmaking self taught in twenty complete lessons	Edith Marie Carens	1911	3
	Practical sewing and dressmaking	Sara May Allington	1913	3
	Making smart clothes	Butterick publishing company.	1930	3
	Designing your own dress patterns	Helen Nicol Tanous	1951	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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