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Draping Notes

The document provides instructions for draping fabric on a dress form to create a pattern. Key steps include pinning muslin fabric to one side of the body form while focusing on specific body areas, marking important lines like the bust, waist, and grain lines. Darts and shaping are added by cutting and pinning the fabric, then markings are transferred to pattern paper including seam allowances. The finished pattern is checked and notations are added before use.

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Draping Notes

The document provides instructions for draping fabric on a dress form to create a pattern. Key steps include pinning muslin fabric to one side of the body form while focusing on specific body areas, marking important lines like the bust, waist, and grain lines. Darts and shaping are added by cutting and pinning the fabric, then markings are transferred to pattern paper including seam allowances. The finished pattern is checked and notations are added before use.

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DRAPING NOTES

● Draping is the process of pinning fabric to a dress form to create a new pattern.
● Muslin is the preferred fabric for draping, it is inexpensive and easy to work with
● When you drape you want to focus on one part of the body
● If that section is going to be symmetrical, you only have to do one side.
● Mark the bust line with a ribbon across the apex
● Pin against the grain of the fabric so it doesn’t move
● If you do a dress or anything longer, you would mark the waist line as well
● Drape WITH the grain
● Mark about an inch in from the selvage, fold over, iron
● Mark center line on the fabric to center it
● Line up the lines with the twill tape the same every time (bottom vs top, etc)
● Pin the ridge from the center front to about the collarbone, the downwards to
the center line
● Line the center line up with the tape line going around, pin across until you get
to the outside of the side seam
● Work clockwise
● Cut slices into the neckline to release to pull on the fabric below
● Repeat cutting and pinning until the to front lays flat
● You want enough fabric around the shoulder sleeve seam so that you can have
movement
● Work the bottom into darts
● ¾ inch down and 1 inch back to start the dart
● Mark the apex and where you’ll end the dart
● Find the princess seam: the seam that goes through the apex, the waist and all the
way down
● Snip and adjust the bottom like at the neck
● 1inch-1 ½ dart
● Mark the center and both sides of the dart
● The excess of the dart should go away from the center
● Fold the dart and pin it down
● Push the fabric across and snip, pin upwards to gather the fabric towards the apex
● Form another dart back fro the apex
● Mark all of the important info onto the fabric
● Mark the armhole an inch down from the plate
● Follow the curve of the body around the shoulder
● Mark the curve of the back with twill tape
● Line up muslin again with the center of the back
● Snip the bottom and pin
● Pin all the way up the side and smooth across the armhole
● Pin acrosss the shoulder
● Clean the neck with snipping and pins to lay flat
● The shoulder dart should be where the princess line is
● Mark where th dart meets the twill line
● Mark the side seams, the shoulder, the waistline, and the neck
● Straighten and darken the lines on the muslin to make tracing easier
● Mark your center line on the dot paper
● Trace all the straight lines from the initial drape
● You want 90 degree angles everywhere you’ll put curves
● Use curved ruler to place curves
● Mark vanishing points for darts in red
● Label the center font line
● Add in seam allowance
● Neckline: ¼ in.
● Armhole: ½ in
● Everything else: ½ in
● Trueing the darts
● Pin the darts the way they will be when you sew it and re draw the lines. To make
them straight
● Unfold and reshape the bottom of the dart to give it shaping
● Do the same thing for the back, draw a center back line
● Label the center back, mark the vanishing line in red
● Make sure to mark seam allowances and true the darts
● Match up shoulder lines, match the sew lines not the seam allowance lines
● Take ¼ in from both pieces of pattern if off
● Mark your grain lines
● Write the piece, your name, cut info, and the size
● Check your lines to make sure your curves are going to meet correctly
● Mark notches on both sides of the dart
● Mark notches where pieces need to match up (arm holes, shoulders, neck, long
seams, etc)
● Double notches signify a back piece
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