Field notes from the pattern room — on geometry, material, and the case for making things slowly.
Before a garment is fabric, it is geometry — curves and straight lines negotiating the distance between a flat surface and a body.
The pattern room is the quietest part of the atelier, and the most consequential — nothing leaves it until the geometry is resolved.
A cloth is not a background for a design — it is a collaborator with its own opinions about weight, drape, and behaviour.
Weight, weave, and hand are a vocabulary. Learning to read it is the first skill of any pattern maker.
Every stage of construction can be done faster. Almost none of them should be.