Garments & patterns

The printed packaging of a commercial sewing pattern, listing fabric requirements, finished garment measurements, suggested fabrics, and a cutting layout diagram.

The system of body measurements and size labels a pattern company uses to grade its patterns, which varies between companies and does not correspond directly to ready-to-wear sizing.

A sewing pattern distributed as a digital file, printed at home on standard paper and assembled by taping numbered pages together, or sent to a copy shop for full-size printing.

A method of tracing sewing patterns directly onto fabric by projecting a digital pattern file onto a cutting surface using a video projector and calibration software.