Product and Specification
You learn what a tech pack actually contains, what is always missing from it, and the questions that get answered before anybody puts a number on anything.
After this track you can
You can read a tech pack you did not write, name every gap in it, and turn it into a brief somebody can cost without guessing.
6 courses · 11 h 50 min
- 4.1Garment Anatomy and TerminologyFoundation3 lessons · 1 h 50 minYou take one shirt order, where one construction nobody named moves a signed cost sheet. You learn the parts of a garment as three rooms name them: the buyer's office, the pattern room, and the sewing floor. You turn a fit comment written in body language into one named pattern change. Then you price the parts that never appear on the drawing.
- 4.2Stitches, Seams and MachinesFoundation3 lessons · 2 h 10 minYou learn that a seam is fully specified in two numbers and no drawing. You see what each number means, which machine it buys, what it costs in minutes and thread, and what it does when somebody wearing the garment bends down.
- 4.3Pattern Making FundamentalsPractitioner3 lessons · 2 h 20 minYou follow one order of 12,000 shirts from the sample pattern to the bulk cut. You see what the pattern room decides on your behalf: ease, seam allowances, notches, grain, and the shrinkage allowance. And you see what each of those decisions costs when it moves.
- 4.4Measurement, Fit and Size Sets: Winning the Argument Before BulkPractitioner3 lessons · 2 h 20 minYou learn that a measurement is a number plus a point, a method, a state, and a tolerance. Drop any one of the four and two people measuring the same garment get two answers, and both are right. You follow one polo order from a rejected size set to a graded spec nobody checked.
- 4.5Marker Making and Fabric UtilisationPractitioner3 lessons · 1 h 40 minFabric is the largest line on the cost sheet, and the marker is the only lever that moves it without changing the garment. You cost one order, three colourways, and three markers to the metre. You see what efficiency actually measures, how a size ratio and the length of a cutting table decide it, and why the cloth the store issued was never the cloth the marker promised.
- 4.6Reading a Tech Pack Before You Price ItFoundation3 lessons · 1 h 30 minA 22-page tech pack lands on Monday morning, and the price is due Thursday. You see what you can read off it, what is always missing, and what you must ask before you put a number on anything.
Track exam
12 questions drawn from a larger bank, across the courses in this track, passed at 70%. 3 attempts, then it locks for 7 days. It is worth finishing the courses first.
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