Hi
I had a question. Does pattern drafting style change according to type of cloth. I am planning on making a light weight linen coat and i was wondering if pattern drafting of heavy tweed is similar to to light weight linen?
Thank you for your time
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My advice is the same to all members here. When you’ve made ten good coats out of 10oz wool, try your hand at linen, cotton or cashmere but not before.
There’s an expression in the trade ‘tweed merchant’. It doesn’t refer to a merchant of tweed but rather a maker who can only put together heavy weight material.
It takes more skill as both cutter and maker to construct a garment made out of light weight material.
A coat made out of stiff heavy wool would be more forgiving than one cut from light weight cashmere. The wool can stand on its own while the other would drape and show more unsightly creasing.
The best answer is usually the simplest one.
This is a great question and one that a spawned many a debate among learned men of the trade.