How to Cut Fabric cleanly and Fairly
If you have a beautiful pattern and design as well as have well-knitted cloth that you want to continue until it is sewed and for this, you should need to cut the fabric. But what you should use to cut the fabric cleanly, is the most important question of yours.
Yes, there are many things besides using scissors that you can use to cut fabric, and undoubtedly they are very helpful for sewing them. Unskilled people produce bad clothes and it is a very common thing to us. If you want to produce a good amount of product that will be looking good, you should gather some basic knowledge to cut the fabric. The best instruction that is trenditex recommended cutting machine. If you want to be a professional fabric cutter you must follow these instructions.
Tips for Cutting Fabric
- Edges cutting
The selvage part of the fabric is densely woven up to the bottom as well as the edges. Many times you may get this very clean and even edge and many times it may have uneven edges that’s why you should cut the edge for making even. Most of the time manufacturers let the fabric unprinted and make them white and it is mostly on the cotton fabric.
- Square the fabric
If you want to get the original shape of the fabric you have to make it square. How can you do it? Just pull on the top-right and then bottom-left. If your fabric is so large you may need help from anyone. It is completely needed depending on the size of the fabric.
- It is very important for you if you work with fabric, especially well-knitted cotton.
- As you are working with cotton fabric stretch out threads of each edge.
From the left cut edge about 1 inch, you should find a thread along the selvage edge. If you can do it properly, from selvage to selvage, you will see a thin line on each side of the fabric.
Key points
- This method is best for woven fabric, like linens and kinds of cotton but it is not perfect for the fabric that is densely woven, knitted as well as stretchy fabrics
- The thread can not match with the opposite edge of the fabric if it is not cut properly that means evenly. If such a situation is happening with you you should pull another thread.
- You should be worried if the thread is broken, just look for the broken edge and pull it continuously.
- Drawing line on the Edge of Fabric
All the time you can’t get the even edger fabric. For the uneven edger fabric, you may need to make it even, that’s why you should draw a line on the edge of the fabric from top to bottom. To do this you may use your dress’ markers chalk.
Key points
- Like a jersey, for knit and stretchy fabric it is perfect. It is also good for the densely knitted fabric and foul furs, for example, velvet
- The device, square, is a kind of measuring tool that’s shape is half-triangle
