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What is a grainline?

You might have come across the word grainline while reading instructions for or using dressmaking patterns and wondered what that means. Fabric is made up of up and down (warp) and left to right (weft) threads that weave together. The warp threads are the ones parallel to the selvedge and the weft threads are perpendicular to the selvedge (from selvedge to selvedge). Warp is also referred as the lengthwise grainline and the weft as the crosswise grainline. As the lengthwise threads are usually stronger the pattern is placed with the centre front/centre back parallel to the lengthwise grainline. Whilst we...

October 20, 2021
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