Straighten the Grain of The Fabric


Straighten the grain of your fabric is part of the preparation of the screen process to get that professional look you want. It is absolutely essential before cutting your fashion fabric. To understand why you should straighten the grain of the fabric, you should know a little about how fabrics are manufactured or constructed. 

One of the oldest methods of making fabric by interlacing is set in two son beams in a process known weaving name. A set of son is stretched in a frame (tear) and is called the chain or the length of the son. 

The other set is inserted so as to pass over and under warp son to form a fabric. As the filler wire and back, they go around the chain son on the edges and form a self-edge, or what is called the selvage. This edge is woven edge and soft and not stretch or Ravel. 

During the manufacturing process, the fabric may have been removed from the grain, so that the grain lines are no longer perfect right angles. Garments made with off-grain fabric will not hang properly, so re-alignment must be done before cutting. 

In the design and construction of clothing, the son are called grains. Grains indicate the direction of the wire. The son of chain are known as grain and typically run longitudinally along the length of the body from shoulder to hem. The grain has very little give or stretch. 

Filling son are called or transversely through the body. The cross grain has more flexibility, curtains differently and gives a better appearance to clothing. Each fabric, such as cotton, silk, linen, or wool, is composed of cross-cutting themes and worked under the most difficult longitudinal son. 

The bias is the exact diagonal of a square of fabric. If the garment is designed to have the grain moving in a certain direction, then it does not block the same or look the same if the grain direction is changed when you cut the fabric. For this reason, all parts of the garment mold are marked with arrows indicating the direction of the grain. 

The grain of the investment in your body is very important in the assembly of clothing. If you see a bulge or wrinkle when you wear your clothes, which usually means the grain needs to be increased or reduced at this point. 

The curves of your body will cause the fabric to stretch the strength or suspended in the wrong places, and means that the grain was pulled or pushed out of line. 

When the side seams do not hang properly on your hips, abdomen or buttocks and you are constantly pulling or tugging the side of your clothes, it could mean that the grain is not in the right position. 

The son of longitudinal grains are firm and not stretch. The cross son can stretch a little. Through a stretch fabric easily. 

Advise the grain of your fabric 


You can choose from various methods of grain smoothing your fabric, depending on how your fabric is off-grain. 

The fabric is beans when the longitudinal and transverse son are perfectly perpendicular to each other. If the fabric does not match the ends and edges according to your cutting guide template when you start to fold the fabric, it can be off-grain. 

Want to check the grain after the ends were matched by aligning a large corner of the screen with the corner of your table or cutting board. If the corners do not match, straighten the grain of the fabric is not only in order, but it is an absolute necessity. 

Depending on the type of fabric you have, you can choose from three different methods: 


Tearing is the fastest, but is only suitable for the tight-woven fabrics such as chiffon or cotton, but can still cause the fabric to stretch. Drawing a line method is slower, but more suitable for loose weave, or soft elastic tissue. 

Cut into leading online that you can easily track is a fast, easy for any fabric that has a strong linear design fabric like linen. 

With both methods, you can test the accuracy, pulling a thread of a selvedge edge to the other edge edges. If you notice that after the recovery of the edge or line up the grain, the fabric does not coincide with the ends and edges according to your cutting guide template when you start to fold the fabric, it can be a little grain. 

If the fabric is just a little grain, the solution is to press the steam fabric gently push the son in proper alignment before going further. Fold the fabric right sides together in half the length and the spindle every five inches along the edges and ends. 

Keep in mind that all off-grain fabric can be corrected; especially if the fabric has been treated in some way with a water repellent finish or permanent press, or a fixed support. You'll have to decide how the effect off-grain the final fabric appearance and clothes fit you spend your time and work sewing. 

Straighten the grain of your fabric should be done first!

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