Role Description

Your day-to-day duties may include:

• draping pieces of material over a dummy, shaping and pinning them around the ‘body’ until they fit correctly, then cutting out a pattern based on the pieces
• altering and shaping flat, standard pattern 'blocks' into a style
• modifying non-standard pattern 'bases' taken from the company's pattern library
• working with machinists to make up samples
• using computer-aided design programs to make up some patterns
• using traditional hand-drawing methods
• working closely with the in-house sample machinist or manufacturer to make up an example garment
• working with designers and garment technologists to produce the final pattern