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Summary: Bound keyhole collars in fashion design have reinforcements that must show up on illustrations. Learn to draw keyhole collars from a fashion designer in this free fashion illustration video.
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Laurel Armstrong Laurel Armstrong is in graduate school for fashion design and is knowledgeable about everything fashion: design, sketching, pattern drafting, draping, sewing ... read more
The next opening that I'm going to teach you how to do is a round neck opening with a bound keyhole. What that means is that your neckline is round. It's lower then a crew neck but you still have the round blinds and then the keyhole means that there's an opening which, with a bound keyhole, keyhole opening. Binding, you're going to need binding tape, when you actually sew it. When you draw it, it doesn't matter. But binding tape means is that this part of your garment is going to have something on the back that reinforces it, makes it stronger. It means that even if this and this are the same fabric, what you use the binding seam tape for is making sure that this part of it stays in such shape. It doesn't, because you have this opening it might have the tendency to walk or pull. With the bound stuff on the back, the binding stuff on the back it means that it's going to retain this shape even if this is flimsy and even if this is created out of the same flimsy stuff.