Measurement Chart
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How to take the measurements
See Mark 'B'
How to take the measurements
See Mark 'W'
How to take the measurements
See Mark 'hH'
How to take the measurements
See Mark 'H'
How to take the measurements
See Mark 'SW2H'
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How to take the measurementsSee Mark 'B'
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How to take the measurementsSee Mark 'W'
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How to take the measurementsSee Mark 'hH'
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How to take the measurementsSee Mark 'H'
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How to take the measurementsSee Mark 'SW2H'
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| Size34 | Bust80 | Waist62 | high Hip78 | Hip86 | SW2H19.5 |
| Size36 | Bust84 | Waist66 | high Hip82 | Hip90 | SW2H20 |
| Size38 | Bust88 | Waist70 | high Hip86 | Hip94 | SW2H20 |
| Size40 | Bust92 | Waist74 | high Hip90 | Hip98 | SW2H20.5 |
| Size42 | Bust96 | Waist78 | high Hip94 | Hip102 | SW2H20.5 |
| Size44 | Bust100 | Waist82 | high Hip98 | Hip106 | SW2H21 |
| Size46 | Bust104 | Waist86 | high Hip102 | Hip110 | SW2H21.5 |
Printing Guide
Domestic printing
The best solution is to install Seamly2D to print patterns on a domestic printer. Common formats such as "A4","Letter" and "Legal" are available.
You can also export the pattern into popular vector formats to print it on large paper at a copy shop.
Depending on the Operating System you are running here's a list of free applications that can help to tile a pattern.
- PosteRazor: Free tool to make posters but unfortunately does not support input postscript files (eps, ps, pdf). Very annoying for our purpose. Platform : multi-platform
- pdfsam: Free application and good pdf manipulation tool (split, merge, extract, crop…) but I am not sure it can split a large document into smaller ones with overlapping margins and scale factors. Requires Java. Platform: multi-platform.
- Linux users: Unix users are lucky. Image manipulation through command lines is very easy to use and enables to do almost everything and anything! As an example a large ps document can be splitted into smaller ones with overlapping margins, crop marks and a tiling grid.
Steps to split international A-Series paper sizes/Common loose sizes in linux
The following man scripts are required:
- poster (mandatory)
- ps2pdf
- qpdf
Save your .svg document in .ps
First open with Inkscape the svg pattern you have just downloaded and save it in .ps.
File > Save As Copy and select ps or enter the following command in your terminal.
inkscape input.svg –export-ps=output.psTile a A2 format in A4 with default cutmargin
poster -v -mA4 -s1 yourA2.ps > yourA4.psExplanation:
- -v stands for ’verbose’
- -mA4 means ‘desired media size to print on’. -mlet is used for ‘Letter’.
- -s1 means ‘scale 1’(don't change that unless you want a Barbie or a giant skirt pattern !)
- The default cutmargin is 5%, if you want more use ‘-c’ as below
- -c15%
Tile a A2 format in A4 with a 15% cutmargin
poster -v -mA4 -s1 -c15% yourA2.ps > yourA4.psTile a A2 format into Letter Paper Size
poster -v -mlet -s1 yourA2.ps > yourLet.psConvert the .ps file into pdf (to split it)
ps2pdf input.ps output.pdfExtra manipulation - Split the .pdf file
qpdf --split-pages input.pdf outputsplitted.pdfConvertion Chart
| - | - | 40 | - | 8 | - | 9 | xs |
| 36 | 34 | 42 | 8 | 9 | 42 | 11 | s |
| 38 | 36 | 44 | 10 | 10 | 44 | 13 | m |
| 40 | 38 | 46 | 12 | 12 | 46 | 15 | m/l |
| 42 | 40 | 48 | 14 | 14 | 48 | 17 | l |
| 44 | 42 | 50 | 16 | 16 | 50 | 19 | xl |
| 46 | 44 | 52 | 18 | 18 | 52 | 21 | xxl |
| 50 | 46 | 54 | 20 | 20 | 54 | 23 | xxl |
| 52 | 48 | 56 | 22 | 22 | 56 | 25 | xxxl |
| 54 | 50 | 58 | 24 | 24 | 58 | - | xxxl |
| 56 | 52 | 60 | 26 | 26 | 60 | - | xxxl |
| 58 | 54 | - | 28 | - | - | - | xxxl |
Petite, standard height and tall woman
This issue is here just skimmed over as it is an essential notion to comprehend for beginners but it is understood by advanced dressmakers who have been confronted with this matter.
Generally the concepts of width and circumference are well understood by newbies who are used to dealing with them because they are reflected in size codes, but admit it, you will never find in a boutique a dress ranged in different heights, one for short women and the same one for tall women! The garment industry uses charts adapted for their clients or designs models to fit the average woman that is to say a woman of medium height (164-172cm). To understand this tricky problem let’s take an example:
Pam, Sue and Val are women with a similar body figure. Their bust, waist and hip measurements are the same, but Pam is a short woman, Sue is a woman of medium height and Vall is tall. In other words their circumference measurements are exactly the same but their height measurements differ because a tall woman have longer limbs and bones.
Sometimes a cutting line is drawn on commercial patterns to indicate where the pattern has to be shortened or lengthened. If not, sewing pattern companies have published guides so that you can adjust height of a sewing pattern according to the cutting shape of the finished pattern.
Patterns for short and tall women are issued with a very easy numbering system. The standard size code is divided by 2 for a short woman and multiplied by 2 for a tall woman. See chart below.