Job Description
- Discuss design specifications with designers, and convert their sketch/specs of garments into patterns
- Create a master pattern for each size within a range of garment sizes, using charts, drafting instruments, computers, and/or grading devices
- Compute dimensions of patterns according to sizes, considering stretching of material
- Create a paper pattern from which to mass-produce a design concept
- Draw details on outlined, parts to radiate where, parts are to be joined, as well as the positions of pleats, pockets, buttonholes, and other features, using computers or drafting instruments
- Draw outlines of pattern, by adapting or copying existing patterns, or by drafting new patterns
- Trace outlines of paper onto cardboard patterns, and cut patterns into parts to make templates
- Mark samples and finished patterns with information such as garment size, section, style, identification, and sewing instructions