GARMENT SEWING MADE EASY (BASIC COURSE): A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

The 'GARMENT SEWING MADE EASY (Basic Course)", the first in its series written by Henrietta Agboola, is a step-by-step guide to the principles of pattern drafting, cutting, joining and finishing.

This book take you through the rudiments of garment production and builds your skills to engage more advanced levels in its sequels.

The approach is illustrative with step-by-step diagrams that break down difficult concepts. 
The language used is delibrately simple and friendly to make it easy for even a novice to come up to speed in learning and acquisition of the technical skills of garment production.

This book help you lay a strong foundation in Fashion Design on which you can build a career, earn an additional income stream, make your own clothes or just have fun enjoying a hobby in sewing.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Henrietta Agboola is an award winning Fashion Designer. She is the CEO and Creative Director at House of Henri Limited, a fashion company in Lagos, Nigeria, into clothing production, retail, capacity building and training for the fashion industry. She is also the Head of Faculty at Fashion and Art Academy and Easylearncollege.com, the training and skills transfer arms of House of Henri.

Amongst other recognitions, she won the award of Nigeria Best Fashion Designer of the Nigeria Fashion Show in 2005. This award has led to her representing Nigeria in the profiling of the creativity of the Nigerian people around the world, individually, and as part of the ‘Heart of Africa’ programme, a Brand Nigeria project of the Federal Government Ministry of Information and Communications. This included shows in Paris, Washington DC, Atlanta and Israel.

Apart from writing this book, Henrietta also authored the “Jewelry Craft and Bead Stringing Made Easy” Book and "The Ultimate Guide To Running A Fashion Business", a very informative business book that teaches the essential skills needed to run a fashion business profitably.

In 2014, she was nominated as one of a select group of six women entrepreneurs from Nigeria to undergo the VVGrow Fellowship Programme of the Vital Voices Global Leadership Network founded by Hillary Clinton. She is an alumnus of the Pan African University, University of Lagos, and Fate Foundation.