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2.3Practitioner3 lessons2 h 15 min

Fabric Calculations

You do the arithmetic that decides how much fabric you buy, and therefore what the garment costs. You compare GSM against ounces, work consumption out from a marker and from a dozen weight, name the wastage that is real, and catch the width change that quietly makes a booking 3.5 percent short.

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What will you be able to do?

Work outcome

You can read a woven or knitted fabric specification and predict what it will do: drape, stretch, shrinkage, seam performance, and cost per garment. You can calculate consumption from GSM and width, and judge a fabric in your hand against the spec somebody wrote for it.

Who it is for

Factory, supplier, brand and buying-office teams.

What you will produce

You build a complete fabric booking for two real orders. You reduce two mill quotes to one comparable number. You build a woven consumption from marker length, cuttable width, and six named allowances. You build a knit consumption from the dozen weight at the shipped size ratio. Then you get the booking quantity both give you once shade-lot minimums are added.

Learning format

3 lessons · 0 templates · workplace calculations and decisions.

Lessons

  1. 01Two units, one fabric🔒45 min
  2. 02Consumption from the marker, and the width that moved🔒48 min
  3. 03Knits are bought by weight🔒42 min

Merchandising AcademyMerchandising Academy teaches apparel merchandising for factories, suppliers, brands, buyers, retailers, and sourcing offices. The first lesson of every course is open to anyone. A plan opens the rest.

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