The Fashion Equivalent of Flatpack Furniture: Pattern Project
Pattern Project is a South London startup attempting to simplify home-sewing, Via Core77
Once you learn the basics, operating a sewing machine is actually pretty easy. But learning to translate your body’s 3D shape onto 2D panels of fabric, then cutting them out into counterintuitively-shaped pieces and sewing them all together in a way that fits your body, is fiendishly difficult. It’s why most folks don’t make their own clothing; the technical barrier to entry is just too high.
A startup called Pattern Project aims to make DIY clothing easier by providing the fashion equivalent of flatpack furniture. They send you precisely-cut panels of fabric that you stitch together.
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