Key Factors of Marker Making

Key Factors of Marker Making in in Clothing Industry:

Marker has too much importance in the clothing industry. During garments manufacturing, marker helps to cut the fabric by reducing fabric wastage. It also helps to achieve a higher profit from a garment export order. But some factors must be followed during marker making. Those key factors have been mentioned in this article perfectly.

What is the Marker?

A marker is a thin paper that contains all the required pattern pieces for all the sizes for a particular style of clothing. The marker gives special directions for completing the fabric cutting. Marker can be done both manually and computerized method.

In the case of the computerized method, all the required information is stored in the refashioned data file, where an operator helps the computer to make the best choice.

Key Points of Marker Making in the Clothing Industry:

Various key points that should be considered before marker making in the clothing industry are pointed out below:

1. During marker making it should be followed that fabric width must be higher than marker width (At least ½ inch).
2. Fabric length must be higher than marker length (At least one inch).
3. Marker width should be taken according to the fabric width and fabric spreading must be done by taking the guideline from the marker length.
4. When garments pattern pieces are laid down on the layer of fabric, in that time the grainline must be parallel to the line of warp in a woven fabric and Wales in the knitted fabric. It should be noted here that, when pattern pieces are laid down across the layers, then the line is kept parallel to the weft for woven fabric and course in knit fabric.
5. All the pattern pieces of a garment should be in the same direction when laid down on an asymmetric fabric.
6. During marker making, the length of the fabric cutting table should be considered.
7. Plan for garments production should also be considered during marker making.
8. During marker making, the marker should be started with the large pattern pieces. Then fits the smaller pieces in the gap of larger pieces. In this way, fabric wastage is minimized and marker efficiency is also increased.
9. In the last step of marker making, all the patterns are shuffled in various directions to reduce the marker length. It also helps to increase marker efficiency.

Mayedul Islam

Mayedul Islam is a Founder and Editor of Garments Merchandising. He is an Expert in Garments Merchandising. Writing is his passion. He loves to write articles about Apparel, Textile and Garment Washing specially on Merchandising. Mail him at mayedul.islam66@gmail.com