Costume Terms
Creates a visual representation of the costume for a certain character throughout the show
Costume Rendering
A specialized tool used in a sewing machine
Needle
stitch that allows a piece of fabric to maintain its shape.
Stay Stitch
temporary stitch used to hold layers of fabric while doing a final stitch.
Basting Stitch
corset's skeleton (giving it its shape)
Boning
The costume designer and director's first opportunity to see all the costumes on actors in relation to each other before a production opens.
Costume Parade
A linear length of textile fabric required for making one garment or any textile item
Yardage
a stitch comprised of small stitches that do not overlap.
Running Stitch
A strip of fabric used to bind edges or decoratively.
Bias Tape
a stitch formed of two stitches crossing each other.
Cross Stitch
Fixing the costume to ensure it fits nicely and that the actor can move around it comfortably for the show.
alter/alternations
Heat-activated glue sheet that holds fabric together.
Fusible Web
A stitch type that results in a solid line of stitches on both sides of the fabric.
Back Stitch
Moveable plate that pulls fabric through a sewing machine in discrete steps between stitches.
Feed Dogs
area between the stitching line and the cut edge of the fabric.
Seam Allowance
Blueprint for constructing clothes
Pattern
A second layer of fabric inside a garment
Lining
stitch joins two pieces of fabric together with a near-invisible stitch line.
Blind Hem Stitch
When the sewing Machine is sewing in the opposite direction
Reverse Stitch
Its a practice version of the garment you plan to sew (not neatly finished)
Mockup/ Muslin/ Toile
folds sewn into the fabric to take in ease and provide shape to a garment, especially for women
Dart
Triangular shaped piece of fabric might get used as shaping to fit contours of the body,
Gore
diagonal cut across the grain of the fabric.
Bias Cut
"self-finished" edge of a piece of fabric which keeps it from unraveling and fraying.
Selvedge
This stitch sews over the edge of two pieces of fabric.
Overlock Stitch