Concept of pattern draping
- 3. Draping ◦ Draping for fashion design is the process of positioning and pinning fabric on a dress form to develop the structure of a garment design. ◦ After draping, the fabric is removed from the dress form and used to create the sewing pattern for the garment. ◦ Then the process of pattern making, fabric layout, cutting and sewing happens behind each to create a garment ready.
- 5. Importance of draping ◦ Draping is considered an important skill for up coming designers because it teaches the art of putting a piece of clothing together on a dress form before creating a sketch. ◦ The art of draping teaches a designer how darts and seams give a garment shape and a perfect fit. ◦ Knowing about darts and seams helps a designer recognize what's wrong with a garment and quickly figure out how to fix it. ◦ A designer who experiments with draping also has more options because she can keep on changing designs with darts and drape application different simply with fabric other than erasing her sketching.
- 9. Advantage ◦ You don’t have to know from experience how much ease allowance is necessary where. You can just add more ease until it looks right. ◦ If you are using a stretchable fabric, you have to do few alterations than with flat pattern. You can directly use the material directly rather than muslin material. ◦ It’s easier to see how the stripe/ pattern in the fabric will look of on a figure if you drape with the fabric. ◦ Mainly this is the easiest technique for the designer to view the 3D form of design before cut and sew into a garment.
- 10. DISADVANTAGE
- 11. Disadvantage ◦ For complicated designs, you have to have a general sense of the shape before you start, in order to cut the right size of fabric required. ◦ Accurate size dress form is needed. ◦ Laying the fabric on to the table and tracing out the pattern onto a paper or else on fabric takes thrice the time and effort when compared to pattern making.