A Beginner's Guide to Bag Making ― 20 Classic Styles Explained Step by Step

Beginner's guide to making classic design bags in beautiful materials.

This easy-to-use beginner's sewing book contains 20 stylish and contemporary bag designs, from tote bags and box bags, to a courier bag, a sports bag and a bowling bag. A range of technique, styles, fabrics and finishes is used, to ensure that you can create exactly the bag you want.

The projects are interspersed with 20 step-by-step techniques so that you can treat the book as course and work through it in order, trying out the techniques as you go, or simply pick and choose your favourite styles. Each of the bags is graded 'beginner level', 'intermediate level' or 'confident' to help you.

The projects and techniques are explained with a mix of photographs and illustrations to provide the clearest possible instruction. All the pattern pieces required are given at full size on the 2 pull-out template sheets at the back of the book.

Estelle Zanatta and Marion Grandamme are stylists and designers, and together they created their own company, CO MODE, which specialises in clothes and accessories. They work for many luxury French brands and their office is based near Paris.