Once upon a time, I’d written a post about sewing contracts and a few about quality control (links at close). Those were fine as these things go but lately, I’m seeing a lot of silly advice on the web. I read a particularly bad post this morning that inspired me to clarify.…
Tag: Rants
Old school patternmakers: Should you get a CAD system? Or update the one you have?
A conversation with another old school pattern maker brings this topic to the forefront -if you’re a highly skilled pattern maker accustomed to manual work, is it worth getting a CAD system for pattern making? For that matter, if you already have a CAD system but it is aging, should you upgrade to a newer version or get another software program altogether?…
100 years of magical thinking
Yet another overseas factory burns, killing workers. Have we learned nothing in the last hundred years? Considering the Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911), all we’ve done is push tragedy farther from us -where we can conveniently forget about it, competing as it does with a new week’s news.…
‘Nuff said -the truth about domestic manufacturing
Image courtesy of the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Commerce Department’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP).
If you’re not familiar with NIST, I describe it as the SBA of manufacturing and I heart them a lot.…
Shame on Wired Magazine
I don’t know how you feel about it but I’m annoyed that Wired rag, pulp fiction tabloid, fish wrap, magazine finds it to be oh so very tongue in cheek and cutesy-like to refer to sewing factories generically as sweat shops.…