What is Garments pattern | Pattern making process of garments

Pattern is a paper that is so thin. It is the copy of design which for essential for garments product. In clothing industries the design means determine the space the shape and developing the pattern according to it. The traditional method is to it make a concept of drawing and then copy or model it on a dummy mannequin. Now -a-days design can be collect from the following source.

1.       Designer own thinking or self creativity.

2.       Developing.

3.       Copying.

Pattern making process on garments

Working surface a flat of polished or laminated working top required.
Paper with pattern paper of strong brown paper required.
Marker pens required for writing clear instruction on pattern
sensor is used for cutting pattern paper

A pattern paper should contain the following information. The normally it must should have contained in a garments industries. The block e.g. bodies front, back, sleeve, skirt, collar, yoke, pocket etc. the grain line in pattern piece.32, 34, 33, 38 etc. centre fronts or centre back. Style number or code number of the pattern paper. Straight bottom/ tailed bottom. Cutting information-how many pieces to be cut. Cut1, cut2, cut3 cut on fold etc. block patterns or basic block are individual component of garments without any design or style. They are made according to the exact dimension of standard body where no allowances are considered. Block pattern are made in two methods.

Flat method and modeling method. The flat method different parts of garments e.g. body sleeves are by technical drawing. Body measurement and application of method depends on pattern maker. Modeling method it is a primary method and first method of pattern making and used in the garments industries widely. Block are made with standard body measurement of statue which known toile. Toiles are worn on stat and consist to the body of the state. Then toile is worn out of the body of the state and individual parts of the toile are drawn on hard paper. This method required more time but better result can be grain from it.

Grading means step wise increase or decrease of master pattern pieces to create larger or smaller pieces. The starting point can be smallest size or the middle size. Grading alters the overall size of a design but not its general shape and design. Manual grading and computer aided grading method are use in this step. The manual grading the design range of size is creating one by one using a pattern template. Marks are made around the master pattern at the appropriate distance and the marks are the later joined up to from enlarged pattern.

In this way a full set of template is generated. And finally the pattern set is created. And the computer based grading system operates in two ways, one the grading increments are fed into the computer and the different size is generated automatically using the same method as applied for manual grading. And two steps the pattern for each individual size calculates separately starting from the data in the size charts. The resulting nests of pattern can be displayed to scale on the computer. It may be used in various ways depending on the level of automation on the industries.

Cutting and spread method

The easiest method, which is the basis of the other two methods, is to cut the pattern and spread the pieces   by a specific amount of grad up, or overlap them to grade down. No special training or tools are required, just sensor. The shifting is the process of increasing or decreasing the overlap dimension of a pattern by moving it a measurement distance up and down and left and right, using the special design ruler. And rewinding the outline, to produce the same result as the cut and spread method.