Merchandising

MARKER MAKING (Cutting Part 2)

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Introduction

For industrial garments preparation, marker making is a very important chapter for highest usage of fabric and for lowest wastage of fabric.

This is a process which is performed to draw the pattern pieces on the fabric before cutting. This may be done by drawing the pattern pieces on the fabric directly or by drawing the pattern pieces on a thin marker paper and then placement the paper onto the fabric lay. So, we can define the marker as bellow.

Marker is a thin paper which contains all necessary pattern pieces for all sizes for a particular style of garments in such a way that, fabric wastage would be least. The representation or drawing of the arrangement of identified garment pattern relevant to the cutting of a batch material. The marker is placed on the material and provides guideline for cutting. Marker may be on fabric or held in computer data files. Marker width is equal to the minimum fabric width and its length depends on the no of pattern sizes that will be drawn.

Preparations of Marker Making

Before the marker making, some preparatory processes would be followed. The processes are discussed ago (In preparatory processes chapter). Without those, some others preparations are

• Marking Grain Line : Before marker making, the grain line of pattern and fabric must be marked.

• Fabric Measurement : Before marker planning, the fabric must be measured carefully. Because, marker width is relevant to the minimum fabric width.

• Fabric Faults : Fabric faults would be also under consideration. In a fabric roll, where any faults found, that points must be avoided for quality production and to least the fabric wastage.

• Cutting Table : Marker planner should consider the cutting table length before making marker. Marker length must be less than the cutting table length.

Constraints of Marker Making

During marker making, the...