Hello and welcome to the course understanding fabric grain line. In this video I'll explain the importance of this trade grain or the direction of the fabric. This is important when undoing or reconstructing a garment as well as making new ones with new fabrics. You have to remember that fabrics are woven in a specific direction. If you want her clothes to hang Well, its pieces must be cut in the right way. In a fabric there are always warp threads and West threads.
When sewing clothes we follow the warp threads which represent the straight grain. This trade grain is always parallel to what is called the salvage a small strip on the edge of the fabric. It is usually thicker or darker, or sometimes the full of small holes. The selvage is like a small protective Wall preventing the fabric from breaking a fabrics whip is the length between the two selvages. Standard fabric whips are hundred and 1400 and 27 and 152 centimeters or 4550 and 60 inches. The weft threads which represent the wrong grain are always parallel to the unfinished side of the fabric.
So the one that tends to break it is also on this side that the store clerk will cut the length that you have asked them to. And finally there is the bias, which is always at a perfect 45 degrees between the straight and wrong rains. Some people cut their clothes according to the bias line depending on the effect they want. The bias allows for more elasticity and flexibility, but it causes a major fabric cloth since we don't cut in parallel with fabric So it's not very ecological except if you're planning on using the trims for something else. If you want your garment to hang Well, you have to follow the grain of the fabric. When looking at the garment, you'll see that the straight grain is almost always perpendicular with the floor.
So if we were placing a skirt pattern on a fabric, we should make sure that the true grain on the pattern piece is perfectly parallel to the salvage and to the straight grain as well. If you want to undo a garment to use its pieces on another one. Remember that this trade grain is always perpendicular to the floor when the garment is worn. On most fabrics, you can see the weaving lines. This will help you in determining the straight grain. You can use a fabric chalk or a sharp piece of soap, and then trace the straight grain on each piece you're planning to use before you deconstruct the garment.
And there you go. You are now a master of fabric grain lines. For any questions regarding this technique, please write us at info at Dr. Easy boss.com and it will be our pleasure to help you and now have a peek at the other courses offered by delta x we both have a great day