Hello everyone, welcome back class number five sample making. What is a sample? A sample is the very first garment made. It's a prototype. What you see on a runway fashion show is a group of samples. Now there are two main methods or techniques to make a sample.

One is called draping and the other is pattern drafting or pattern making. What is draping? draping is the art of using fabric to hang to fold to drape onto a dress form in order to make a pattern. Pattern drafting or pattern making is a method or technique using an existing pattern to create a second pattern using techniques such as pivoting, slashing and spreading You can also draft a patent from scratch using given measurements. If you had a special customer who needed a custom made garment that's also possible. So you look at a sketch, and you decide if you want to use draping or pattern making pattern drafting to create the pattern.

In the draping process, we use a fabric normally we use a fabric called Muslim. Muslim is a very inexpensive fabric, we use it and then we make a patent that we throw it away. So it's very inexpensive. It's usually white of white. It looks like Canvas, but it's a much lighter version, lighter weight than canvas. You can buy it at your local fabric store.

It's very easy to find. Here's a great textbook that I highly recommend. If you're interested in learning how to drink this is a great textbook. And here is a pattern drafting textbook. This is an amazing pattern making book really issue by. Now both methods draping and pattern drafting are techniques which require in depth study.

We could spend weeks and months studying and perfecting draping and pattern drafting. I will make a sec a separate course at a later date and demonstrate draping techniques and pattern making techniques. But for the purpose of this course, we simply don't have the time necessary to really get into the details of draping and pattern making is a very complex system. So if you don't know any draping or if you don't know any pattern making at all whatsoever, your next step is to find someone who does. Now you can find someone later Maybe a student from your local school, or you can search online for companies that can produce your samples. There are companies that you can hire that can make the pattern and kind of sample in Muslim for a fitting.

What is a fitting? fitting simply means to try the Muslim, the Muslim sample on a model, either a live model if you can afford one, or a dress form to check and to check the fit to see whether the garment looks like the sketch that you had in mind. Does it look like the design that you had in mind? Does it fit correctly? Is it too big? Is it too tight?

Is the proportion correct? Should it be longer should it be shorter and so on and adjustments are made. Once the adjustments are made, the pattern is corrected If necessary, a second sample is made to check the fit. Once again, once the muslin sample is perfect, it's just the way we like it. It's, it's beautiful, it's good to go. It is then cut in the actual fabric chosen for that design.

And this process is repeated for each design. So, at this point, if you're if you're following this course and you're really serious about making samples, and you want to end up with real samples for a collection for your collection, now's the time to stop and really focus on this process. Find a way to make your samples. Like I said, you can search online, maybe you have someone who can help you with pattern making and making samples. So that's your next assignment. Okay, so you got some work to do.

I will see you next class.