Patternmaking For A Perfect Fit: Using The Rub-... Review

She stood before her full-length mirror and slipped the muslin over her shoulders. She held her breath and looked.

Once the perimeter of the front panel was pinned out, she took her tracing wheel. She firmly rolled the spiked wheel along the chalked-out seam lines. As the spikes pressed through the denim and the paper, they left a perfect, dotted trail on the paper beneath. Patternmaking for a Perfect Fit: Using the Rub-...

The next step was "truing" the pattern. Clara took her French curve and straight rulers to connect the dotted lines left by the tracing wheel, smoothing out the wobbles. She stood before her full-length mirror and slipped

Clara cleared off her large wooden dining table and gathered her tools: The target garment (her beloved denim jacket) A large cork tracing board Dozens of fine straight pins Translucent medical pattern paper A tracing wheel with a serrated edge A mechanical pencil and French curve rulers She firmly rolled the spiked wheel along the

She decided it was time to learn the holy grail of custom dressmaking: pattern drafting through the "rub-off" method, also known as creating a trace-off or a cloned pattern. 🧥 The Discovery of the Method