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    Cutting Room Terminologies in Apparel Industry

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    This document defines common terminology used in apparel industry cutting rooms. It provides definitions for over 20 terms related to cutting room processes, components, and tools. Key terms defined include band knife, bias cut, baker's trolley, block cutting, clicker press, die cutting, end loss, face spreading methods, layout, marker, notch, on the fold, shading, and slubs. Understanding these cutting room terminologies is important for communicating cutting processes and components in the apparel industry.

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    Cutting Room Terminologies in Apparel Industry

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    This document defines common terminology used in apparel industry cutting rooms. It provides definitions for over 20 terms related to cutting room processes, components, and tools. Key terms defined include band knife, bias cut, baker's trolley, block cutting, clicker press, die cutting, end loss, face spreading methods, layout, marker, notch, on the fold, shading, and slubs. Understanding these cutting room terminologies is important for communicating cutting processes and components in the apparel industry.

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    This document defines common terminology used in apparel industry cutting rooms. It provides definitions for over 20 terms related to cutting room processes, components, and tools. Key terms defined include band knife, bias cut, baker's trolley, block cutting, clicker press, die cutting, end loss, face spreading methods, layout, marker, notch, on the fold, shading, and slubs. Understanding these cutting room terminologies is important for communicating cutting processes and components in the apparel industry.

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    Cutting Room Terminologies in Apparel Industry

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    This document defines common terminology used in apparel industry cutting rooms. It provides definitions for over 20 terms related to cutting room processes, components, and tools. Key terms defined include band knife, bias cut, baker's trolley, block cutting, clicker press, die cutting, end loss, face spreading methods, layout, marker, notch, on the fold, shading, and slubs. Understanding these cutting room terminologies is important for communicating cutting processes and components in the apparel industry.

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    Cutting Room Terminologies in Apparel Industry

    In Cutting room number of technical terms and trading terms are used to communicate
    processes or components or tools. I have made a list of those terms and explained those in the
    following table.

    Common Definition
    Terminology
    Band knife  An endless blade vertical knife, around which the
    work is moved over the large cutting table
    Bias Cut ‘Cut on the Bias’ – cut at an angle to both the
    warp and the weft of the cloth, at 45 degree.
    Baker’s Trolley A wheeled rack used to transport sections of the
    lay from the cutting table to the band knife and
    from the band knife to the sorting operations.
    Block Cutting or Cutting roughly around a part which is
    Blocking out subsequently cut very precisely, by various
    means. Also for splitting the lay, to assist
    handling to the band knife.
    Bowing A fault in woven cloth in which the weft is not
    straight across the piece but has curve.
    Clicker Press Used for parts of intricate nature and repetitive,
    also for parts requiring a high degree of accuracy.
    Cross ‘Cut on the crosses – Cut at right angles to the
    grain of the cloth (On bias).
    Damage A fabric fault. It may be generated during
    handling fabric inside factory or faulty fabric sent
    the fabric supplier.
    Die cutting  Used where accuracy is important and there is
    enough repetition
    End loss The cloth at the end of the lay that is not covered
    by the marker
    Face one way The face side of each ply faces the same way (up
    spreading  or down)
    Face to face Method of spreading in which the cloth is
    spreading alternately facing up or down, as a result of
    continuous to and fro movement of the roll over
    the lay.
    Face to face one way Used for directional fabric where the pile
    spreading  (direction) is required to lie in the same direction
    on all the plies.
    Layout (pattern The geometrical layout of the pattern pieces in a
    layout)  garment, which is cut around to produce the
    parts of the garment
    Marker a) A man who prepares the pattern layout and/or
    who marks the layout onto the lay or onto a
    paper or a cloth.
    b) A piece of paper, cloth etc. representing the
    layout.    
    Notch A small cut into the part, which aids the location
    during assembly by indicating to the operator
    some requirement for matching with other
    notches or positions in the garment
    On the fold Method of finishing the cloth so that it is folded
    to half its width
    Shading Means colour in cloth. It is commonly used to
    imply that a particular bit/roll of cloth is different
    in shade from another bit.
    Shade Numbering Process of numbering parts to ensure they are of
    same shade
    Slubs  A local thick place in the yarn in a cloth usually
    caused by error but in some cloths it is
    introduced purposely

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