Glossary for the future designers
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I'm Thelma Renaud and I study in Fashion Design at Cégep Marie-Victorin. I'm in my second semester and I have one more year to do. My glossary is principally for the future Designers and the students who are in Fashion Design. It is not easy to be a Designer and to do his place in this field. So, this is why this glossary can help people, who are beginners in this field, to understand words that are important to know. I find the words from a document, that my fashion teachers give me, where there are words in French and there translation in English. The definitions are from Google and the images are from Wikimedia. You can refer to this glossary for any words that you do not know the definitions.
- Grainline
- noun
- Grainline is essentially the weave of the fabric: which direction the threads are running. It's important to understand because how you cut out a garment will change how the finished garment behaves.
- Example: To have a good hanging on your garment, your pattern must be parallel to the GRAINLINE.
- fr: Droit fil
- Buttonhole
- noun
- A slit made in a garment to receive a button for fastening.
- Example: Such shirts have special buttonholes solely for shirt studs.
- fr: Boutonnière
- Trim
- noun
- Additional decoration, typically along the edges of something and in contrasting color or material.
- Example: In home building, carpenters build the house framework, frame the roof and interior partitions, and install doors, windows, flooring, cabinets, wood paneling, and molding and trim.
- fr: Garniture
- Fiber
- noun
- A thread or filament from which a vegetable tissue, mineral substance, or textile is formed.
- Example: The cotton gin, patented in the late 18th century by Eli Whitney, was used to separate cotton fiber from the plant's seeds.
- fr: Fibre
- Flat drawing or flat sketch
- noun
- A flat sketch, also called flat drawing and technical flat in the fashion industry, is a technical drawing of a garment as if it were laid flat to show the design details like seams and stitching. ... This helps both the designer and the pattern maker throughout the entire garment-making process.
- Example: A flat sketch serves as an essential part of the garment specification sheet.
- fr: Aplat, aplat technique
- Supplier
- noun
- A person or organization that provides something needed such as a product or service.
- Example: When the cost of fibre increases by £1 per metre of standard width cloth equivalent, it is recommended that a negotiation with the supplier should be done in order to get the 20% reduction in the cost of bought in yarn since this will be able to drive down the total cost.
- fr: Fournisseur
- Workroom
- noun
- A room for working in, especially one equipped for a particular kind of work.
- Example: They are normally made by professionals in a workroom, and depend on a skill in handling and arranging fabric to achieve the best possible folds and drape in the fabric.
- fr: Atelier
- Label
- noun
- A small piece of paper, fabric, plastic, or similar material attached to an object and giving information about it.
- Example: The food industry is required by law to state the correct nutritional content of food products, so if the consumer was so concerned about eating less calories then perhaps they should have looked more carefully at the label.
- fr: Étiquette
- Stitch
- noun
- A loop of thread or yarn resulting from a single pass or movement of the needle in sewing, knitting, or crocheting.
- fr: Maille
- Knit
- noun
- Make (a garment, blanket, etc.) by interlocking loops of wool or other yarn with knitting needles or on a machine.
- Example: Her knitting can also have a purpose other than being a leisure activity, and she can knit small items to sell in the charity shop.
- fr: Tricot
- Yoke
- noun
- A part of a garment that fits over the shoulders and to which the main part of the garment is attached, typically in gathers or pleats.
- Example: The end of the Dzhungar state lightened their load, but the Russian yoke was never removed from their necks.
- fr: Empiècement
- Facing
- noun
- A layer of material covering part of a garment and providing contrast, decoration, or strength.
- Example: "the regiment's uniforms had orange facings".
- fr: Parmenture
- Sketch
- noun
- A rough or unfinished drawing or painting, often made to assist in making a more finished picture.
- Example: A 2D sketch can be created within modelling software, for example, SolidWorks; which can then be used to generate a 3D model of the rear wing.
- fr: Esquisse
- Spec sheet or Teck pack.
- noun
- A garment specification sheet is a technical document that contains the construction details of the product, a technical diagram/ sketch of the garment, measurements of the product.
- Example: A spec sheet is a list of POMs that define the size of your finished garment.
- fr: Fiche technique
- Moodboard
- noun
- An arrangement of images, materials, pieces of text, etc. intended to evoke or project a particular style or concept.
- Example: We put together a mood board with key images and words that best convey the essence of the brand.
- fr: Planche de collection
- Price range or price points
- noun
- A point on a scale of possible prices at which something might be marketed.
- Example: Company ´s current market and financial situation When the Marketing team was recruited, Sonite was already a well established market, with several strong brands at different price points covering a wide range of needs.
- fr: Gamme de prix
- Suit
- noun
- A set of outer clothes made of the same fabric and designed to be worn together, typically consisting of a jacket and trousers or a jacket and skirt.
- Example: In another experiment, Sissons (1970) arranged for an actor to dress up in a suit and bowler hat and stand on Paddington station, periodically asking people the way to Hyde Park.
- fr: Tailleur
- Draping
- noun
- Arrange (cloth or clothing) loosely or casually on or around something.
- Example: Although the latter may be slightly cheaper than sateen, it may not have the same draping quality.
- fr: Moulage
- Hem
- noun
- The edge of a piece of cloth or clothing which has been turned under and sewn.
- Example: The hem of her dress.
- fr: Ourlet
- Pattern
- noun
- A pattern is the template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric before being cut out and assembled.
- Example: Patterns are usually made of paper, and are sometimes made of sturdier materials like paperboard or cardboard if they need to be more robust to withstand repeated use.
- fr: Patron
