There are lot of fashion designing tools and equipments which can be used to make the pattern making, sewing and crafting process easy and effective in fashion designing. Get brief information about these fashion design tools.

1. Fashion Designing Tools
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2. Importance of Tools in Fashion
Designing
Fashion designing is art of creating clothing
designs. To create effective designs a fashion
designer should have ability to use fashion
designing tools in the right way. There are lots of
tools that can be used to make drafting, pattern
making, sewing and crafting process easy and
impressive. These fashion designing tools can
help to minimize mistakes, cut down the
development time for creation of new designs
and make the perfect designs. There are some
most usable fashion design tools as defined here
that should be in your toolkit to become
successful fashion designer.

3. Pair of Scissors
A Fashion Designer should have a pair of scissors to make the
cutting process easy.

4. Card Scissor
Card Scissor: The card scissor is used to cut the cardboard
design, to make sewing phase easier.

5. Fabric Shears Scissor
Shear Scissor: This type of scissor is little bit heavier than card
scissor and mostly used to cut different type of fabrics.

6. Lightweight Scissors
Lightweight Scissors: This type of scissor is light in weight and
is used to cut clothing materials just like silk, lining etc.

7. Tailor’s Chalk
Tailor’s Calk: This is a chalk like material used to mark
alteration points on fabric in dressmaking and tailoring. The
marks can be easily washed off when no longer needed.

8. Tape Measure
Tape measure is also known as measuring tape and used to
measure distance. It is a common measuring tool, flexible ruler
which consists of a ribbon of cloth, metal strip , plastic or fiber
glass with linear measurement markings.

9. Dress Maker Dummy
Dress maker dummy is a three dimensional model which is used
to fit clothes on the dress form to judge how garment will look
like when it will appear on the body.

10. Pearl Head Pins
Pearl headed pins are perfect for hard sewing, easy to handle,
pick, stick. A magnetic pin holder can be used to manage and
make the handling of these pins easier.

11. Block Patterns
A block pattern is form of pattern designing which is used for
industrial production. It is a custom-fitted, basic pattern from
which patterns for many different styles can be developed.

12. 2H, 4H, 3H 0.5 mm & 0.3 mm Lead Pencils
Different types of pencils like 2H, 3H, 4H or size 0.5 mm or 0.3
mm are used for drafting and creating patterns. 0.3 mm lead
pencils are used for accuracy or precision whereas 0.5 mm
colored lead pencils are used to increase visibility on the screen.

13. Pattern Maker
Pattern maker is a person who makes patterns, creates plans or
diagrams used as a guide in sewing, weaving and clothing
manufacturing.

14. Fashion Curve
Fashion keeps on changing with the context of time, place and
wearer. As per study fashion changes are expressed in the form of
bell shaped curve also called fashion curve from beginning to end
of any type of fashion.

15. Set Square
Set square are used to create patterns, draw straight lines, mark
in hip-lines, grain-lines, add seam allowances, establish 45 and
90-degree angles, shape armholes, neckline curves, measure
around curves, use as a compass and grade patterns.

16. Professional Dress Stands
Professional dress stands are used for the purpose of high end
display or fashion design. There are different type of dress stands
like bust forms, female dress forms, men's clothing forms, maternity
clothing display forms etc.

17. Half-Scale Dress Stands
Half scale dress stand is a mini form of dress stands, where the scale is 1:2,
or half the size of a full size 6. Working on a smaller scale allows to create
garments in less time and with less material! This can be used to
experiment the garment designs before the full sized garment is made.

18. Adhesive Styling Tape
Adhesive tapes is a combination of a material and an adhesive film which
is used to bond or join objects together. These skin friendly double sided
tape strips can be easily placed anywhere onto fabrics or skin to hold your
outfits in place and leaves no residue.

19. Cotton Stay Tape
Stay tape is similar to bias tape. It is mainly suitable for lightweight and
delicate fabrics including knits. Some common uses include stabilizing
shoulder seams on knit garments, creating roll lines of lapels on lighter
weight fabrics, preventing necklines from stretching out of shape.

20. Sewing Pins
As a profession fashion designer or sewer you need some sewing
needles in various sizes which can be easily changed depends upon
the weight of the fabrics that you use.

21. Pattern Notcher
A pattern notcher is a common tool used for pattern making and
sewing where notch in a paper pattern are created. The main purpose
of using notches is to align pattern pieces. Notches are much usable
than marks as they allow marking of fabrics inside the pattern area.

22. Spot and Cross Pattern Paper
This dot and cross paper is one of the most important aspects used
for pattern making of clothing and other crafty applications. it is
mainly a lightweight paper printed with light blue dots and crosses
with the space at 2 cm interval. It helps you to easily determine the
distance within the pattern by calculating number or spots and
crosses in that section.

23. Plain Pattern Paper
Plain pattern paper is usually with a gloss finish to allow magic
tape to come off without tearing, light enough to see commercial
patterns placed underneath.

24. Scotch Magic Tape
Scotch Magic Tape is mate finish original invisible tape used to fix
all the little imperfections at offices, schools and home. It uses 3M
adhesive technology to provide strong, secure and permanent seal to
bond tightly with the paper and disappear without trace.

25. Pattern Weights
These pattern weights are the perfect sewing accessory to be used in
fashion designing. These becomes more handy when you deal with
lot of fabric or do not want to damage delicate fabric like silks or
laces with too many pin pricks.

26. Cutting Mats
Cutting mats are made of thin, flexible and soft materials. It is ideal
for covering a workspace and protecting it from cuts, scratches,
knicks and allows an architect or designer to use rotary cutters and
straight knives without risk to the surface underneath.

27. Sewing Machine
A fashion designer can’t be complete without sewing machine as
it is the important fashion designing tool used for finishing work.
Usually fashion designers use industrial sewing machine.

28. Contact Us
Indian Institute of Fashion & Design (IIFD)
IIFD is the most reputed fashion design college is Chandigarh, India
which offers various type of job oriented degree and diploma
courses in fashion designing, interior designing and textile
designing.
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0172-4007918
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Chandigarh, India