Patterns and Pattern-Making

We have spent the day here at the exciting task of downloading a design programme, which allows us to share our new designs with you, showing various fabrics available, as well as making patterns for various sizes, cutting down on pattern drafting.

This is a very new thing for us, being used to the old method of sizing up patterns by the pivot and slide method, which is used in the pattern industry, and in which we were trained.

It may seem odd to be embracing new technology for such work, but even our dear Topsy had a jaquard loom for his designs, which enabled one man to do work which would have taken weeks in days; the loom was manually operated, thus did not violate the ethic of individual work.

Aside from enabling us to get to the fun work of making garments sooner, it also means that we can offer our lovely items as a line of sewing patterns for those interested in creating their own versions, with their own handmade embellishments.

Look in future for our patterns here and on Etsy!