Notes on how
garments get made.
Short guides on the pages a factory sews from: what goes on them, how they are written, and what goes wrong when something is left out. Each one answers a single question.
Tech packs
What the pages are, and the order to write them in.
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01 / Guide
What is a tech pack?
The set of pages a factory uses to sew a garment the same way every time, and how that differs from a sketch or a 3D sample.
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02 / Guide
How to make a tech pack
A practical order for turning a sketch and its decisions into the pages a factory can sew from.
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Patterns and sizing
How one base size becomes a size run.
Drawings and the role
The drawing a factory measures from, and the person who writes the pages.
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04 / Guide
What are technical flats?
The clean front and back drawings a factory reads for seams, proportion and detail, and how they differ from a sketch.
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05 / Guide
What is a technical designer?
The person who turns a design into specs, grade rules and fit comments a factory can work from.
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