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Pattern markings and symbols guide dressmakers in fabric placement and sewing, ensuring accuracy in garment construction.
Key symbols include straight grain arrows, fold brackets, dart lines, V-shaped notches, and broken stitching lines.
Drafted patterns are customized using individual body measurements, offering a perfect fit and unique design potential.
These patterns are cost-effective compared to commercial ones and allow pre-checking of garment fit before sewing.
Drafted patterns are highly personalized, requiring specific skills and only fitting the individual for whom they are made.

Pattern markings and symbols

These show the dress-maker how to use the patterns in making garments. The marks should also beads in the drafted patterns. The pattern marking and symbols include the following and more:
- Straight grain of fabric: an arrow head symbol, meaning that the pattern piece should be placed on the grain like parallel to the selvedge.

- Place to fold of material: a bracketed grain-line, meaning that pattern edge should be placed on the fold of the fabric.

- Darts: shown by two broken lines for stitching.

To make the dart, the material is folded along the centre.

- Notches: these are V-shaped symbols along the cutting line. Yet show matching points on the pattern. They can have numbers.

- Stitching line: this is shown by broken lines round the latter area.

- Seam allowance: the space between stitching line and the cutting line. It varies from one area of the pattern to another.

Drafted pattern: This is made to fit a particular person. A person's body measurements are first taken. Then the pattern is drafted to fit his or her size.

Advantages of drafted pattern:
1. It can be made to fit a person perfectly.
2. It can be adapted to any type of style.
3. It is cheaper than commercial pattern.
4. It can help to check the fit of a design before it is made into a garment.
5. It is original, therefore can be unique. It does not require alteration.

Disadvantages of drafted patterns:
1. It can only be useful to one person, the owner.
2. Pattern drafting requires special skill in this case.

Pattern markings and symbols

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