Wearing ease
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The minimum extra room built into a pattern beyond a person's exact body measurements, needed so a finished garment can be put on and moved in comfortably.
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A0 pattern
A version of a PDF sewing pattern formatted to print as a single large sheet at a copy shop, sized to the international A0 paper standard.
Beta pattern
An early, not-yet-finalized version of a sewing pattern sent out to testers for feedback before the pattern's official public release.
Design ease
Extra room added into a pattern beyond the minimum wearing ease, chosen purely to create a looser, more relaxed silhouette in the finished garment.
Layplan
A diagram showing exactly how pattern pieces are positioned on a given fabric width to minimize waste, used especially in production cutting.
Tiling
The task of trimming and taping together the individual letter or A4 sized pages of a home-printed PDF pattern into one complete, full-size sheet.
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