Comments on: Notes from Network Tuesdays

By: details

details — Thu, 17 May 2007 02:38:27 +0000

I am so glad meetup.com network was mentioned in this article. I decided to try it and found a Fashion Insiders Meetup group in Fort Lauderdale, Fl. I signed up and went to my first meeting on Tuesday. I just have to say it was a wonderful decision I made, since I really enjoyed meeting all the wonderful and talented people in the industry that showed up. I will definitely continue to go and I hope to make some great connections and help each other in some way. Thanks!

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Fri, 11 May 2007 18:16:19 +0000

I’ve been faced with a similar decision. I have a customer fabric pattern, and decided to use the same pattern AND fabric for different pieces. It’s a fun game of using design to make the pieces look different enough. But producing more material with different fabrics, let alone different patterns, wouldn’t be cost-effective for me at this point.

By: ClassConscious

ClassConscious — Fri, 11 May 2007 17:04:18 +0000

Thank you for your comments, Trish.

Perhaps the pattern pieces could be printed after being cut.

When the fabric plys are being spread, would it even be possible to line up the marker lines on the table? A slight stretch might position the marker line where it would be seen. Or center fronts might be off-mark a smidge. I don’t know how to mass produce this.

For prototypes, I am using an Epson 7600sp wide format (24 in.) printer using ultrachrome ink. The ink is supposed to be waterproof when dry but I have not tried laundering yet. It is so time consuming because wider skirt pieces must be taped and folded over a backing to go through–then re-positioned for any printing outside the 24in. area–very annoying.

By: Colleen

Colleen — Fri, 11 May 2007 13:20:35 +0000

Katie,

Check meetup.com; they may have a fashion group that meets near you (I know that there is one in Boston and one in NY). I’ve never gone (the nearest one is over 3 hours away), so can’t comment on the forum.

Thanks, Zoe, All are good points.

By: katie

katie — Fri, 11 May 2007 04:06:40 +0000

Zoe,

I am so jealous! There is a person I know who used to hold designer roundtable dinners, but I don’t think she does it anymore…see, I’m jealous and you don’t even want to go!

lol!

By: Trish

Trish — Fri, 11 May 2007 01:12:37 +0000

Class Conscious

Because we do doll clothing design, we have talked about marking the fabric with the marker itself while printing.

I would imagine that the greatest issue would be that the marker may not be created at the same you have the fabric printed. You often do not have the production run information when the fabric is being created.

Also you could have several different markers to create during the production run and they could be very different from one another… so you would not want to create the fabric with the marker on it.

If you were digital printing, you might be able to revisit this idea. Whhat kind of printer is doing your printing and with what printing technique?

By: ClassConscious

ClassConscious — Thu, 10 May 2007 16:23:31 +0000

Hello. New here. Just finished reading the book. A real page-turner. I loved it. You mentioned custom printing onto fabric: I have some prototypes that I printed with my printer that came out great but were time-consuming. If I wanted to sample these, who would I contact to print up the fabrics? Also, could I actually have the pattern pieces (markers) printed right onto the fabric at the same time? Has anyone tried this?