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Digital Pattern Making: How CAD Replaced the Card Table, and What Pattern Makers Lost
Pattern making has moved from paper tables to CAD software. Speed and grading improved, while part of the hand craft quietly faded.

Pattern making has moved from paper tables to CAD software. Speed and grading improved, while part of the hand craft quietly faded.

Voice, curation, and cadence decide whether a fashion digest survives its third issue.

Smart mirrors, body scanners and fabric recyclers are moving fashion tech out of the factory and into the fitting room.

A garment made of pixels never touches a body. That changes what design, ownership, and getting dressed mean.

Warp, weft and bias behave like three different materials. Cutting a pattern off-grain quietly undoes the fit a designer drew.