Thursday, May 13th.
Today was more pattern sorting. I marked some patterns Adam had made with the name of the customer, type of garment it was, date, piece that the panel corresponded with, and how many times the panel would need to be cut. Adam also taught me about grain lines. The grain in a fabric is the threads that run parallel to the selvedge (the long edge on a roll of fabric). Perpendicular to the grain is the cross grain. The grain is stronger than the cross grain. When mapping and cutting the pieces of a garment, the grain should run length-wise, this is represented in the long line bisecting the panel of the pattern in the picture below.
Having the grain run length-wise allows the garment to hang correctly. There is also a "true bias grain". This is the line that runs diagonally 45 degrees through the fabric. The true bias grain is the stretchy-ist line in the fabric.
Also on thursday, photographers came to shoot Adam in his studio for a new book on Portland entrepreneurs.
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