Tools to Design Beautiful Garments Using Draping

Tools to Design Beautiful Garments Using Draping

Draping is an innovative approach to garment-making. Draping also refers to the consistency of a fabric explaining how it hangs. Draping lets you imagine the garment before beginning to cut and stitch it. To build a garment starting from a drape you need great skill and care.

If you're planning pattern formation, draping is one of the best methods you can use. It's also used to give the fashion design a dramatic effect. Draping helps a piece of cloth to form at a human body's curves, and it draws attention to the human form. This is a perfect design style in which the fabric on the model is treated and labelled according to the pattern. It helps you to understand your dream.

If you want to build a design by the draping method you need some simple tools. So here we'll give you the materials you need to have for the draping:

• Dress form-Various styles and sizes of dress forms can be found. They are available to women, men, and children. With your garments, you can select the kind you like, because they can be found with or without the arms and with or without the legs.
• L Square-It's a two-armed 24 "ruler. One of his arms is 24 inches while the other is just 14 inches. Both those parts meet at 90 °.
• French Curve Ruler – The curved edges of the necklines, armholes, collars, and crotch seams are formed by an irregular curved ruler.
• Tape Measure-A lightweight, narrow and tightly woven reversible tape measuring 60 inches and labelled with measurements representing both metric and inch terms. You need it to take body, muslin and dress measurements.
• Muslin – A simple weave of cheap fabric that comes in different weights.
• Straight pins – They are also known as dressmaker pins, which have straight tapering points that do not rust over time. You should carefully select them to be of good quality, because you need them to easily move through the muslin into your dress form to bind the muslin to the fabric.
• Pin Cushion or Pin Dispenser – Both are sewing devices that arrange and hold pins in a convenient position.
• Awl – It is a pointed metal tool used to poke holes in the belt from the eyelets.
• Notcher – It is a punching device that lets you trace the edge of a pattern on a sloper or paper.
• Pencils-For the creation of muslin patterns you need them.
• Tailor's Chalk – It is a small piece of chalk with a scale of approximately 1'/2 "square and features two tapered edges. You use it to temporarily trace lines on dress hems and other modification points. Scissors and shears – typically, shears are four to eight inches long and made of steel. For quick and straight cutting, you can use bent-handled shears.
• Scissors and shears-Shears are usually four to eight inches long and made of steel. Bent-handled shears can be used for simple, straight cutting.
• Style tape – It's a thin, woven tape that helps you to draw lines of style in the dress.
• Tracing Wheel – A sharp, spiky, edged circular wheel complemented by a handle. To pass markings from the drape into the pattern paper you need it.
• Yardstick – This is a one yard long metal or wooden ruler, labelled in terms of metric and inches. You need it for placing pattern parts on the fabric's grain straight or for measuring hemlines.