Are you looking for Pattern Cutting, Marker Making, Grading, or Digitising Services?

Our Freelance Pattern Cutting Services can help your business

Nottingham based FPC provides production ready, fully graded patterns using the latest CAD software or if you prefer using manual techniques. Whether for one-off, short or long-term contracts we are here to help. Saving you valuable time; we will send production ready patterns with all relevant paperwork straight to your manufacturing base anywhere in the world in a format to suit their needs. Our Freelance Pattern Cutting Services provide additional help to manage your busy periods helping you to avoid expensive long-term recruitment. With in-depth industry experience, spanning over 20 years, for Gloverall, Sainsbury’s Tu, M&S, Paul Smith, Aquascutum, Fred Perry, New Look, Cache Cache, Peacocks, GRN, Quest Sportswear, and many more, developing for womenswear, menswear, outdoor & sportswear, and highly technical garments (for emergency services and MOD), we like to think we know what we’re doing!

Our Pattern Cutting Service

Send us your sketches or initial patterns and we’ll send you your production pattern… using CAD or manual techniques!

Our pattern cutting service turns drawings into patterns, ready for cutting. We can pattern cut from scratch, or help with alterations.

We’ll bring your drawings to life creating professional production ready patterns: produced with industry-leading CAD systems or if you prefer cut manually. Our pattern cutting service is available for garment manufacturers of any size, including boutique designers and private individuals looking to create one-off patterns.

Whether you’re starting a new line from the design phase, reworking a current range, or creating a single garment for a show or special occasion, our Freelance Pattern Cutting Services can provide the help you need.

Our fees start from £75 – £125 for a straight-forward garment.  Amore complex garment (e.g. a fully lined jacket with revere collar and pockets) prices start from from £275.

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Our Marker Making Service

Freelance Pattern Cutting Services that really can reduce your costs for your business.

Our marker making service can take your digital or paper patterns and create lay markers ready for production.

Don’t worry if you only have paper patterns as we have full digitising services available. Once your pattern is in our system we can help you make any adjustments you need.

We provide lay plans: send us your patterns and we provide markers.

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Our Pattern Grading Service

We really can reduce your costs for your business.

Our grading service takes any patterns, whether a paper pattern or digital and creates a full range of sizes (for standard industry sizing or if you prefer we can work with your own bespoke sizing).

Our industry experience can help with a wide-range of materials, helping you get the right grading for your garments.

Enquire today about how our Freelance Pattern Cutting Services can help your business.

We provide full size grading for most garment types, using industry standard, client, or bespoke grades. Fees start at £75 per pattern (i.e. for a tee-shirt).

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Our Pattern Digitising Service

Send us your patterns and we can provide fully digitised CAD patterns. We can, of course, provide our full grading, marker making, and pattern cutting services too.

Our pattern cutting service turns drawings into patterns, ready for cutting. We can pattern cut from scratch, or help with alterations.

We’ll bring your drawings to life creating professional production ready patterns: produced with industry-leading CAD systems or if you prefer cut manually. Our pattern cutting service is available for garment manufacturers of any size, including boutique designers and private individuals looking to create one-off patterns.

Whether you’re starting a new line from the design phase, reworking a current range, or creating a single garment for a show or special occasion, our Freelance Pattern Cutting Services can provide the help you need.

We can take most patterns and make it digital ready for production.

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Specialist help & advice

Consultation service

We provide a consultation service to discuss your designs or garments, helping you to understand what is needed to get ready for manufacturing.  It needn’t cost the earth, a one-hour consultation starts from as little as £65 – this way you can benefit from years of experience to help you avoid common pitfalls – for example, never go to production without fully testing a sample.

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Sample making service

We can make sample garments to help you assess the fit, practicality, shape, etc..

We have the ability to create sample garments (from the patterns supplied or patterns we develop for you).  Examples would include jersey wear (leggings, tee-shirts, shirts, blouses, trousers, tops, etc.. We can cater for everyday garments). Fees start at £87.50

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Pattern Cutting Services from the Heart of England

Pattern Cutting, Grading, Marker Making, Freelance Pattern Cutting Services

What garments can we help you with?

 

Firstly, the only garments we do not do are lingerie (bra’s and knickers) and bridle-wear, other than this we can help with high-street fashion, utility workwear (PPE Safety), sports & activewear, coats, jackets, and duffels, medical garments, polo-shirts, children’s wear, and more.

Pattern Cutting, Grading, Marker Making, Freelance Pattern Cutting Services

We’re Garment Specialists, from fashion to technical to safety clothing.

From our fully equipped studio in the Heart of England we provide thorough and helpful support to our clients From quick one-off jobs through more complicated garments and projects. We have invested into CAD software, digitising equipment, marker making, and pattern printing facilities, all in a big push to provide everything that is needed to support a wide client base.

Pattern Cutting, Grading, Marker Making, Freelance Pattern Cutting Services

Do You Use Gerber, Investronica, Lectra, Vetigraph? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered.

 

We have invested in technology that can import patterns from industry leading platforms. For example, if you work with Gerber all you need to do is provide an exported DXF file and we’ll import it into our CAD software. Don’t worry, we’ll guide you through the process. For those of you who don’t want computer patterns we also produce paper patterns.

 

Excellent service

“Sharon as Head of Department demonstrated a high level of design creativity and in pattern cutting, efficiency, skill, material utilisation and garment manufacturing productivity. She also provided advice and assistance to the production management team.”

Paul Curtis MD / Monarch Textiles

Always helps us turn around garments quickly.

Sharon provides ongoing support for our business, working on old equipment it has to be said, but she always helps us turn around garments quickly.

Richard Lamb MD / Buckley Lamb

A real pleasure to work with.

Sharon is a highly skilled pattern cutter, with creative and commercial insights that proved invaluable. She brings her expertise, professionalism, and great attention to detail to everything she does. A real pleasure to work with.”

Anna Ellis. Production Manager / Gloveral PLC

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