Top Tips To Improve Your Skills As A Tailor

Tailoring is an incredibly rewarding profession that rewards people who have excellent attention to detail, creative drive, dextrous hands and the ability to solve problems and not give up.

However, even the best tailors in the world were not born with these skills, and with perseverance and a willingness to learn you can level up your skills as a tailor and take incredible designs and ideas from your sketchbook to tailors’ dummies to the catwalk.

Here are our top tips to boost your skills.

Measure Twice, Cut Once

This is good advice in general, but whilst the idea that you should check twice, cut once applies to all aspects of life, it is exceptionally literal in the tailoring world.

Careful cutting of patterns is very important and checking the grain of your textiles, the direction of the thread and the instructions for the pattern you are attempting are vital to avoid wasting material and producing the best work you possibly can.

Embrace Modernity And Tradition

Dressmaking is a very traditional craft, but that does not mean you need to rely on a needle, thread and a sturdy pair of scissors.

Many gadgets and pieces of machinery exist to help save time, encourage experimentation and help you enjoy making clothes you love even more.

Pick up a decent sewing machine and look into the latest best practices for making clothes that take less time and last longer.

Enjoy Yourself

Tailoring is a skilled craft and a profession, but above this, it is also an expressive art form. Make sure that you are working on clothing that inspires you and motivates you to learn the skills you need and put the effort in to make it that much better.

Creativity and a distinctive style is key to succeeding in tailoring, as these small details will set you apart from other tailors and make your projects unique.