Tools
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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.
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Domestic Sewing Machine
A home sewing machine built for general garment construction, as opposed to an industrial machine built for speed and a single task.
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Industrial Sewing Machine
A single-purpose machine built for speed and continuous production use, as opposed to the general-purpose domestic machine most home sewists learn on.
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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.
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Pins
Slender metal shafts used to temporarily hold fabric layers together before stitching, in a range of lengths and thicknesses for different fabric weights.
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Serger / Overlocker
A machine that trims and finishes a seam's raw edge in one pass using multiple threads and loopers, producing the stretchy, enclosed edge seen on knit garments.
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Sewing Shears
Long-bladed scissors reserved exclusively for cutting fabric, kept sharp for clean, accurate cuts.
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Tracing Wheel
A spiked wheel used with dressmaker's carbon paper to transfer pattern markings onto fabric.
