Every fabric roll gets a shrinkage test: a half-meter square is washed and measured. This one shrinks about 4% lengthwise and 3% widthwise. Pattern makers use these exact numbers to adjust designs, because uneven shrinkage across batches would wreck the fit.
We make this shrinkage test for all the rolls of fabric that we receive. It's crazy. This is the way we can control if the fabric is in conditions, if the shrinkage is the same or similar. Because can happen that if the fabric has different batches, we will have different shrinkage. And if we have different shrinkage, we cannot cut the same pattern because it will have reactions during the washing.
Absolutely. So any good factory is going to do this. This is a half a meter by half a meter. They're going to cut around to actually follow the square. And then they're going to send it for washing.
On the length, it's 4%. On the width, it's 3%. And the patterns must be adapted to the shrinkage of this wash.
But the pattern makers need to be— based on the percentages written here, they're going to have to adjust the entire pattern. And it's not as simple as just making everything 4% less because the seams are going to affect how the garment shrinks. The pattern maker really needs to know what they're doing.
Very nice. Very good.
