Julian Roberts Subtraction Cutting

Julian Roberts is the inventor of subtraction cutting, and he describes it much better than me

"Subtraction Cutting is an approach to garment designing that allows for trial and error, chance discovery, multiple flipside viewpoints, and the ability to cut fast & loose without too many overbearing reference to numbers, or rigid mathematical rules"

His diagrams are clearer as well

"In going slightly awry, they (students) can create garments that have never before been cut, so they unexpectedly find themselves thrust onto the cutting edge of new innovation."

I think that is what excites me the most about subtraction cutting, every time you can create something different. Because of the experimental nature of subtraction cutting it was a more free and creative process than normal pattern cutting, designing the garment as you went along.


http://www.julianand.com/school/THEBANANAMILKSHAKE.htm