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The cutting room: spreading, markers, cutting methods and reducing fabric waste.
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How to calculate fabric consumption for knit garments (by weight, from panel areas and GSM) and woven garments (by length, from the marker), with worked examples, wastage allowances and the mistakes that cause fabric shortages.
Spreading lays fabric in plies ready for cutting. The spreading mode, tension, alignment, splicing and shade control decide whether cut panels are accurate and matching. A practical guide for cutting rooms.
The marker decides how much fabric an order uses. How markers are planned, what limits efficiency (grain, direction, matching, width), how to calculate marker efficiency, and how to improve it without hurting quality.
Fabric is the largest cost in most garments, and the cutting room decides how much of it becomes garments. Where fabric is lost, how to measure it, and practical ways to cut waste through markers, spreading, end loss control and roll planning.
A walk through the cutting room from fabric receipt to bundles issued to sewing: inspection, relaxation, planning, spreading, cutting, numbering, fusing and audit, with the controls and measures that keep it accurate.