pattern making
Drafting repeatable designs
Pattern making is the craft of creating templates used to produce garments, manufactured parts, or decorative objects.
In fashion, a pattern maker translates a designer's sketch into flat paper or digital pieces that guide fabric cutting: She studied pattern making before launching her clothing line.
The term also applies to foundry work, where patterns shape molds for casting metal.
- sand castingMetal shaping using granular molds
- die castingPressurized metal injection manufacturing
- drapingArranging cloth loosely
- sewingCraft with needle and thread
- dressmakingConstructing garments from fabric
blueprinting · tailoring · toile · tessellation · fashion design · sloper · muslin · grading · stenciling · template design · seam allowance · body measurements · machining · prototyping · cut and sew · pins · fitting · cutting
- fashionfashion, clothing, apparel, attire, garment
- textilescotton, wool, silk, fabric, thread
- fashion industryfashion, fashion design, fashion designers, fashion shows, fashion week
- Sewing & Fashionsewing, seamstress, tailor, fabric, patterns
- factory workfactory worker, assembly, assembly line, welding, assembly worker
- homemakingcooking, cleaning, laundry, recipes, baking
pattern makingimprovisation
Spontaneous, unplanned creation
freehand drawing · spontaneous creation · ad-libbing · extemporization · winging it
pattern makingdismantling
Taking apart systematically
deconstruction · unmaking · disruption · erasure · demolition