Selvedge denim is too narrow and finicky for machines, so cutters do it by hand. For simpler pieces like pocket linings, a digital marker tells the cutting machine how to slice through 99 layers of fabric at once, turning a designer's pattern into thousands of identical pieces fast.
She said that the selvedge denim is much narrower. If you look at the roll of fabric over here, this is much narrower. If you look along the edge here, there's a selvedge line, and if you look on the other side, there's a selvedge line here as well. So because of that and all of these other factors, this needs to be cut by hand. If it's cut by the machine, the machine could have some inaccuracies. They're going to have to cut by hand to ensure that there's no mistakes.
In this case, we are cutting 99 lining for pockets, so comes directly from the pattern makers to this machine. They access it, place the fabric, and then now the machine automatically cuts it.
So over here, what we see on the sheet is called a marker, and that marker came from this software right here. It represents what each panel is. Those panels are what's applied over here and what's actively being cut right now, and that's what the machine is— over 99 layers of fabric. So when this is all said and done, it's going to produce a lot of pockets.
