TLE

• tape measure - used for taking body measurements. It is flexible with metal ends
• yardstick or meterstick - rigid tool used to take and mark long straight measurements or to check grain lines.
• transparent ruler - a ruler that the sewer can see through. Blades are 15.2 cm to 30.5 cm long.
• seam gauge - used to measure hems, buttonholes, and pleats. Six-inch metal marking ruler
• tailor’s square or L-square - used to draw perpendicular lines, square corners, and divide measurement.
• Hip curve - used in shaping hips skirt hemline and hip shape seam lines.
• French curve - used to shape necklines, collars, arm holes, and other curved modified designs.
• tracing wheel - used with tailor‘s carbon to transfer pattern markings to fabric
• tailor’s carbon paper - used with a tracing wheel to create a temporary marking on fabric.
• tailor’s chalk - an oil-free chalk for transferring markings
• darning thread and needle - used to make tailor’s tasks
• Flat iron - electrically heated appliance for flattening, creasing, and shaping fabric.
• Pressing cloth - used to cover fabric while pressing
• Ironing board - padded flat surface for ironing and pressing
• Padding - resists the heat of an iron useful for making pleats, bias-strips, and so-forth
• hip curve - used for re-drawing gently curve lines
• Dressmaker pins - sharp points and will not leave marks on fabric.
• Pin cushions - used to keep needles and pins handy while working.
• Sewing scissors - are pointed for trimming and clipping work.
• Shears— used for cutting fabric
• Needle - pointed metal with an eye to carry thread and sew two fabrics together
• Machine needle - attached to the machine.
• Hand needle - slender metal with an eye at the end point used to join fabrics together using your hands.
• Needle threader - makes threading of needle easier.
• Thimble - used to push a needle through the material.
• Pincushion/emery bag - small cushions to keep pins and needles.
• Hem marker - human made measuring tool used to measure hem lines
• Cabinet


  Holds the drawers, the cover or extension leaf, and the center drawers
• Parts of the cabinet

  • Drawers to keep materials for sewing
  • Extension leaf to cover the cabinet
• Head


  The upper metal part that holds the other mechanisms
• Feed dog


  Moves the material as it stitches
• Pressure bar


  Holds the pressure foot and needle
• Pressure bar lifter


  Lowers and raises the presser foot
• Shuttle


  Holds the bobbin and bobbin case in place
• Stitch regulator


  Controls the length of the stitches and is used for reverse stitching
• Stop motion screw


  Releases or tightens the movement of the needle bar
• Thread take-up lever


  Controls the flow of needle thread
• Throat plate


  Gives the needle access to the lower thread through the feed dog
• Upper tension


  Regulates tightness or looseness of the stitches
• The bobbin is the spool for the lower thread