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Complete Pleats

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Category: Architecture

Paul Jackson‘s major new title Complete Pleats is the most comprehensive book about pleating on the market.

It explains how pleating systems can be stretched, compressed, flared, skewed, multiplied, and mirrored, showing how from simple ideas, a huge number of original pleat forms can be created. Each technique is explained with a series of step-by-step photographs and line illustrations, enabling the designer to work through the basic principles of pleating and then adapt them to their specific needs. Complete Pleats also features more than 60 examples of pleats from the worlds of architecture, fashion, and product design.

Paul Jackson has taught pleating techniques to students of Fashion Design for 30 years, in both paper and fabric. Complete Pleats is the definitive practical guide for anyone wishing to create and make pleats.

The book includes 23 videos of pleating techniques.

Customer Reviews (4.4 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Owen Z. ★★★★★

The diagrams on how to stretch and flare a single system finally made it click for me, after years of guessing. It's dense but every page earns its place, and the progression from simple folds to skewed forms feels genuinely logical.

Hazel W. ★★★★★

The diagrams alone are worth it—Jackson breaks down stretching and skewing so clearly that even complex systems feel doable. I've flipped through it three times already and keep finding new variations to try.

Sophia ★★★★★

I’ve been folding paper for years and this is the first book that actually explains the logic behind pleating systems instead of just showing finished pieces. The way it breaks down how systems can be skewed or multiplied is incredibly clear.

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