Preparations for stitching

• Role of stitching
• Need for health and safety precautions
• Sewing tools
• Crewal
• Sharp needles
• Straws and milliners
• Thread specifications
• Scissors
• Tailor’s Shears
• Pinking shears
• Tailor’s chalk
• Thimble
• Seam ripper
• Thread trimmer
• Hole maker
• Construction of fabric
• Grain of fabric
• Tools for pattern making
• Supplies for pattern making
• Pattern scissors
• Notches
• Brush
• Pattern drafing paper or brown sheet
• Cutting table
• Drafting tools
• French curves
• Curve rule or leg shaper
• Pattern square
• Tailor’s square
• Care and maintenance of the machine
• Cleaning
• Oiling
• Maintenance of sewing machine by operators
• Care of clothes
• Genric precautions
• Classifications of stains

Threadle sewing machine

• Types of sewing machine
• The treadle sewing machine and its parts
• Spool pin ( No 18 )
• Tension disc
• Take up lever
• Face plate
• Needle bar
• Pressure foot
• Bobbin case
• Pressure foot lifter
• Stitch regulator
• Bobbin winder
• Working of threadle sewing machine
• Foot plate
• Balance wheel
• Needle bar
• Pressure bar
• Tension disc
• Bobbin case
• Feed fog
• Bobbin winder
• Stitch formation
• Stitch balance
• Adjusting the stitch length
• Selection of thread and needle
• Troubleshooting while stitching with machine

Basic hand stitches

• Basic hand stitch
• Running stitch
• Back stitch
• Tacking stitches
• Hemming stitches
• Button hole stitch
• Machine stitches
• Back stitch
• Overlock stitch
• Seams
• Constructional seams
• Curved seams
• Cornered seams
• Supporting seams techniques
• Trimming
• Grading
• Trim a corner
• Clipping and notches
• Seam finishing

Neckline

• Facing
• Shaped facing
• Bias facing
• Length and width
• Extended neckline
• Cording or piping
• Binding

Plackets

• Faced plackets
• A two – piece plackets
• Italian plackets
• Continuous plackets
• One – piece plackets
• Zipper plackets
• Calculation : Material requirements for facing
• Example
• Exercise for practice

Collars

• Flat collar
• Rolled collar
• Stand collar or mandarian collar

Black pattern

• Basic pattern set
• Pattern perfection
• Advantage of block pattern making
• Proportion of human body
• Proportion figures of men and women
• Bones, joints and their movement
• Measuring techniques
• How to take body measurement?
• Measurements charts
• Measurements for old or used cloths
• Shirt
• Trousers
• Salwar and Pyjama
• Bush shirt
• Skirt

Basic pattern alteration and fabric measurement

• Taking key measurement
• Comparing measurement
• Making the alteration
• Fabric measurement

Paper pattern, layout and cutting of various garments

• Pattern construction
• Work and safety precaution for creating and cutting the paper pattern
• Layout
• Precaution for layout
• Fabric
• Looking at the fabric for symmetry or asymmetry
• How to check fabric designs
• Cutting fabric with nap or one way design
• Strips
• Checks
• Laying of check and strip fabric
• Even check
• Uneven checks or strips
• Matching strips / check at seams
• Care of fabrics

Baba suit and Bloomer

• Baba suit
• Bloomer

Frocks

• Set in sleeve variation
• Bishop sleeve
• The Leg – O – Mutton
• Bell sleeve
• Sleeve bottom finishes
• Finishing with elastic
• Trimming
• Lace
• Rickrack
• Ribbons
• Rope or code
• Fancy button
• Motifs
• Bias trimmings

Suit and skirt

• Co – ordinates
• Lining and interlinking
• Underlining
• Interfacing
• Fusing material
• Lining
• Interlinking

Tops and Salwar

• Hints
• Types of tucks
• Plain tucks
• Corded tucks
• Dart tucks
• Tucker foot
• Calculation : Material requirement for tucks
• Salwar

Kameez

• Neck designs
• Important hints to avoid trouble while stitching
• Darts
• Standard dart ( half dart )
• Double pointed darts ( full dart )

Night gown and housecoat

• Frills
• Waist belt

Gent’s shirt

• Collars
• Sleeves
• Cuffs
• Shirt yoke
• Front plackets
• Calculation: division of stitches for fixing buttons
• Division of stitches for stitching buttons
• Calculate

Trouser

• Trouser terminology
• Analysis of trouser foundation
• Trouser derivatives
• Fly font
• Extended fly piece
• Fly with a separate piece

Pyjama

• Pyjama
• Waist line casing in salwar and pyjama
• Fold down casing
• Applied casing
• Chapter – 19

Kurta

• Jodhpur jacket

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