Tag: hand-tool

• Sewing Shears

  Long-bladed scissors reserved exclusively for cutting fabric, kept sharp for clean, accurate cuts.

• Tracing Wheel

  A spiked wheel used with dressmaker's carbon paper to transfer pattern markings onto fabric.

• Awl

  A slender, pointed hand tool used to pierce fabric, mark precise points, or guide fabric under a sewing machine needle without touching the blades.

• Measuring Tools

  The core set of tools for taking body measurements and checking pattern accuracy — tape measure, clear gridded ruler, and French curve chief among them.

• Pins

  Slender metal shafts used to temporarily hold fabric layers together before stitching, in a range of lengths and thicknesses for different fabric weights.