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Draping & Garment Techniques

Working on the form. Bias, gather, pleat. The skills that separate a tailor from a designer.

Duration3 months · 240 hours
CertificationDiploma in Draping & Garment Techniques
ModeOn-campus · full-time
Next cohort{{TBD cohort start date}}
01Overview

The programme

Some garments cannot be flat-drafted. A bias gown, a draped sari blouse, a sculpted evening dress — these begin on the form. This is the programme that teaches a student to think with her hands.

Working on the dress form, students learn how cloth falls under gravity, how bias behaves differently to grain, and how to pin, mark, and translate a draped piece back into a paper pattern that can be reproduced.

By the end, students can develop original silhouettes that cannot be drafted on paper alone — the work that separates a designer's collection from a tailor's catalogue.

02What you will learn

Modules

  1. 01The dress form: working with the second body
  2. 02Grain, bias, cross-grain
  3. 03Basic bodice and skirt draping
  4. 04Gathers, tucks, and controlled fullness
  5. 05Pleats: knife, box, accordion
  6. 06Cowl and drape effects
  7. 07Bias-cut garments
  8. 08Indian draping: pre-stitched sari, structured blouses
  9. 09Draping the lehenga choli
  10. 10From the form back to the flat pattern
  11. 11Toile-making and fitting cycles
  12. 12Final draped capsule
03Who this is for

The student we have in mind

  • —Construction graduates moving into form work
  • —Working designers strengthening silhouette skills
  • —Evening-wear track students
  • —Founders of evening-wear or bridal labels
04Included

Tools & materials

  • ✦Draping kit (pins, scissors, awl, tracing wheel)
  • ✦Course-period dress-form access
  • ✦Calico and toile fabric for studio work
05Faculty

Who teaches it

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06Outcomes

Where graduates go

Pathways
  • —Studio designer at an evening-wear house
  • —Founder of an evening-wear or bridal label
  • —Sample-room creative
  • —Independent draping specialist
Starting income (indicative)

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Alumni note

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07Investment

Fee structure

Base fee

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EMI

EMI from ₹{{TBD}}/month over 4 months

Scholarship

Merit and need-based scholarships available — apply during enquiry.

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