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Trade Secrets - Pattern Making 101 with Glen Rollason

Trade Secrets - Pattern Making 101 with Glen Rollason

Update: 2025-09-25
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This week's guest, Glen Rollason, describes pattern making as the architecture of fashion. It's the bones, the structure, the technical process that gives our clothes shape, moves them from the 2D to the 3D, and helps them fit. Pattern making is drafting, design, and highly skilled technical process - but it's also team work.


No pattern, no coat!


From the basics (what is it, where do you begin) to the artistry (fit, form, allure) through Raf Simons, bust darts and the crazy complexity of national sizing standards, we've got it all in this dynamic conversation about this essential fashion ingredient. Plus, why do we need to keep capacity on shore? How might small factories / design labs work in future? What's going on with apprenticeships, and what are we going to do about skilled people ageing out of the industry?


Scissors at the ready!


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Trade Secrets - Pattern Making 101 with Glen Rollason

Trade Secrets - Pattern Making 101 with Glen Rollason