Fabric Cutting Tools: Types of cutting machine used in Apparel industry
Fabric cutting is an integral part of getting your project created. Whether you are creating designer clothes, quilts, curtains, or embroidery projects, you’ll need to cut the fabric from the original bolt or another medium. Gone
Learn to Sew Stunning Ruffles with a Ruffler Foot
How many people actually know how to use a ruffler foot? How many people really know how to sew a ruffle? After reading this piece, you will have your own idea as to what a ruffler foot is and how it’s used!
How to make your own die cuts without a die cutter?
Die cutting machines are a very efficient way to cut all sorts of weak materials, whether it is fabric, paper or cardboard. Die cuts involve mass producing particular shapes in some cases.
Essential Sewing Tools for Dressmakers: A Must-Read for Novices!
In the present day culture, sewing has become mostly a mass manufacturing trade, but there is a rare art form of sewing that is still alive and thriving in our society. If you ask them what they prefer to be called you will get a variety of responses, dressmaker, seamstress, seamster, tailor, sewer, sewist, alterations expert. Whatever they prefer to be called, they are pretty hard to come by, which makes it a valuable craft, and they have

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