Do you want to discover sewing, but you don't know what to start with? No longer fear and follow the very detailed couture guide! In summary: retouching and repair (rezipper a broken closure, enlarge a too small garment, picking up jeans). Upcycling (Transforming a dress into a blouse, sewing patches on a holeed garment, developing your creativity). Personalization (embroidered, crustomizing) and maintenance advice (mites, tuning, washing.). Your creative leisure couture and mending can you know that the textile industry is one more polluting in the world? So to avoid overconsumption, opt for repair and customization! Need to touch up a dress for an event? A little hook to repair in your favorite t-shirt? Heads to add, or a button to be repaired? No need to constantly buy clothes to renew your wardrobe! Follow the guide and appropriate these professional seamstress tips to prolong the life of your clothes. And in addition, it feels good at the ego and the planet! Start by discovering the different sewing points and their utilities and learn to make them both by hand and at the machine. Then exercise with putting into practice on clothing to repair: this allows you to understand the realities of the seam, to acquire the basic rules by applying them and especially to learn with all serenity.Pucycling, you have said? "Upcycler", or "overculous" in French, consists in transforming a garment that takes dust in your closet to give it new utility. This is another way to revive your clothes. provided you know how to go about it. Learn in this book 1001 Couture tips from Marie Claire editions, thanks to illustrated photos and detailed texts how to customize, customize and give new life to your favorite pieces! It is also a good way to assert your personality and your creativity, while respecting your ecological footprint and that we love it! Number of pages: 125.Format: 19.5 cm x 22.5 cm. Cover: paperback.