Contrary to my usual protests, there are rare occasions when you should worry that an idea you have will be “borrowed”. I have a customer with a product idea that lends itself to being copied and frankly, I’m not sure how to have the conversation.…
This applies to any service provider -the key problem is communication. This is not an intended slam of designers because they typically do a lot of talking and or a lot of writing in an attempt to get their point across.…
In continuation of yesterday’s introduction, I think it is important to stress that too many notches is a cognitive shortcut. However unfair, one is going to presume a pattern such that we sampled was made by an inexperienced practitioner and will require closer scrutiny.…
A recent question in the forum inspires this entry:
Is it okay to make a notches on a pattern to identify seam allowances or is that information only supposed to go on the spec sheet of the product? I was at the workshop of the designer who helps me with my production and I saw that one of his patterns had them, so I asked him about it and he told me I should do it because the seamstresses wouldn’t know the seam allowance size.
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