TLE

• Measuring tools:

  • Tape measure
  • Ruler
  • Seam gauge
  • Hem marker
  • Hip curve
• Drafting tools:

  • Tailor's square
  • French curve
• Cutting tools:

  • Shears
  • Scissors
  • Seam ripper
• Marking tools:

  • Tracing wheel
  • Tailor's chalk
  • Dressmaker's carbon paper
• Miscellaneous tools:

  • Needles
  • Pins
  • Thimble
  • Thread
  • Pin cushion
  • Emery bag
• Tape measure - taking body measurements
• Ruler - drawing lines
• Seam gauge - short distance
• Hem marker - accurate guide
• Hip curve - shaping hips
• Tailor's square - perpendicular
• French curve - shape neck-lines
• Seam ripper - curved blade
• Shears - cutting fabrics. small openings.
• Scissors - sharp and closed blade
• Tracing wheel - tailor's chalk
• Tailor's chalk - thin piece of hard chalk
• Dressmaker's carbon paper - construction marks
• Needles - stainless
• Pins - holds pieces of fabric
• Thimble - small cap
• Thread - kind of yarn
• Pin cushion - firm cushion
• Emery bag - sharpen pins
• Lockstitch sewing machine - domestic sewing machine.
• Hi-speed lockstitch sewing machine - straight stitching machine
• Buttonholer machine - making buttonholes on garments
• Button attachment machine - Automatic machine
• Overedging machine - small machine. raw edges.
• Embroidery machine - fancy stitches
• Free-motion sewing machine embroidery - basic zigzag
• Computerized machine embroidery - embroidery machine
• Horizontal measurement - it is measured from the left of the figure to the right.
• Vertical measurement - it is measured from the top of the body figure to its base
• Circumferential measurement - taken around the body
• Bust - circumferential
• Waist - circumferential
• Hip - circumferential
• High hip - circumferential
• Front waist length - vertical