Truing

How it is used

Use after pattern changes, particularly where darts close or several seams meet.

Example sentences

1. Truing the waistline removed a sharp corner where the dart closed.

   The line must remain smooth when the flat pattern becomes a shaped garment.

2. The pattern room completed truing before adding the final seam allowances.

   The stitching outline is checked before the cutting outline is finalised.

Common collocations

• pattern truing
• truing a seam

Related terms

• patternA paper or digital template for each piece of a garment, used to cut the fabric; it also means a repeated decorative design on fabric.
• seam allowanceThe extra fabric between the stitching line and the cut edge of a pattern piece, which makes it possible to sew and finish the seam.

More terms: Pattern Making

• dart
• grading
• grain line
• toile
• ease
• block
• marker
• dart intake
• walking a seam
• turn of cloth
• slash and spread
• princess seam