THE INFLUENCE OF THE TYPE OF CUTTING LAYOUT ON THE UTILIZATION OF THE TEXTILE MATERIAL FOR WOMEN'S PANTS

Abstract

Making clothes is a complex process that includes a number of technical and creative aspects. The first technological process in making clothes is cutting. In order to cut the clothes precisely and in the required sizes, it is necessary to make a pattern beforehand. In addition to the importance of the pattern, the production of cutting layouts that contain the parts of the appropriate pattern is also of great importance. Pattern making and the cutting process are critical stages in the textile and fashion industry. Organization and precision in these stages have a great impact on the quality of the final product, the costs, and the efficiency of the production process. Cutting layouts are technical drawings that show the parts of the pattern and how to join them. These markrs are used as a guide during the process of tailoring and making the garment. The production of cutting layouts should be carefully planned and mathematically calculated, so that the consumption of fabric will be minimized, but also the standards of quality and functionality of the clothes will be met. Patternmaking is the process of laying out parts of a garment on paper (in electronic screen fitting), the width of which is identical to the width of the fabric. The contours of the cut parts of clothing can be drawn on paper, forming a cutting layouts. The cutting layout is placed on top of the cutting stack or the information about the contours of the cutting parts and their position in the cutting layout can be memorized in a computer, and then with the help of a plotter the cutting layout can be drawn or transferred to a device for automatic cutting . Depending on the cutting method, it is not always necessary to transfer the cutting parts and their positions to a paper cutting layout, but still, it is necessary to make a plan of the cutting layout in which the cutting parts will be placed closer to each other, which will achieve minimum consumption. In this paper, the influence of the type of cutting layouts on the consumption of textile material is processed and illustrated. The experimental part shows a pattern of women's trousers worked with different cutting layouts for the same fabric width. In this case, specifically, a fit is shown, with fewer and more sizes contained in one cuttin layout, which would practically prove that the type of cutting layout largely affects the consumption of fabric from which the garment is made. Since the main fabric for making clothes is one of the most expensive stakeholders in the overall process, every centimeter of fabric saved is very significant for an industry that faces challenges of sustainability and efficient management of resources.