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Textiles and Garment Construction

Elastic a narrow strip and generally serves to increase the ability of
garment to stretch, either to accommodate movement or to make
the garment suitable for wearers of many different physical sizes.
Embroidery many different types of decorative stitches used on a fabric
Fabric a cloth made by weaving, knitting, or felting textile fibres such as
cotton, silk
Fasten off securing the end of thread by stitches during sewing

Fasten on securing the beggining of the stitch when sewing
Fastener a device for closing the opening on garments. Examples of fasteners
are zips, buttons and buttonholes
Fastening a device, for example, button or zip used to close a piece of
clothing
Fullness this is the extra amount of fabric in pattern pieces that need to be
arranged to give a garment good fit
Gathers tiny, soft folds of fabric formed when a larger piece of a fabric is
sewn to a smaller piece. They are used especially on skirts and

puffed sleeves
Hem a finished edge on a garment; this is a last step in sewing a garment
Hook section of a fastener that is held on to the bar, loop, or eye to make
a fastener
Laundering washing fabric by hand or by machine with a soil removing
product
Line in garment designs refers patterns arranged to draw the eye vertically,

horizontally or diagonally
Notching cutting v-shaped sections from the seam allowance
Openings gap section created or made on a garment for easy putting on and
taking off the garment
Piping is a trim or edging formed by sewing a thin strip of folded fabric
- typically bias binding into a narrow tube and attaching it to the
edge of a piece of fabric. It can also include cord to give it extra
body.
Pucker to form or make something form small folds or lines

Quitting the act of leaving a place. Sew up and quitting are semantically
related, this means straight stitching
Raw edges an unfinished, rough, or undecorated edge of a fabric

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