Flat Lining

What does flat lining mean and when to use it.

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What does the term mean?

• Flat lining is the process of backing your fashion fabric with your lining fabric.
• Lining fabric for costumes is usually a sturdy fabric such as coutil, drill or duck.
• The edges are most often sergered together.
• The double layer is now treated as one.

 Why use it?  

• Flat lining is used in almost all costume construction.
• It adds support and strength allowing the pieces to hold over multiple uses, repeated cleaning, and alterations.

 Methods  

• Cut out your lining pieces, transfer pattern marks to your lining.
  • Marks are on the outside (side nearest the body) of the lining and need to remain seen thru out construction.

 Method One  

• Pin your marked lining pieces to your fashion fabric using it as your pattern.
  • Be sure to match grainlines.
• Cut out fashion fabric leaving a wide margin around the edges of the lining pieces.
  • This is called rough cutting, making it easier to have the two pieces exactly the same.
• Starting on the longest side of each piece, serge.
  • We do not cut off any of the lining pieces when serging. Serge just along the edge.
• Press
• Sew the other side.
• For our method, we do not serge the top and bottom edges.

 Method Two

• Pin your marked lining pieces to your fashion fabric using it as your pattern.
  • Be sure to match grainlines.
• Cut out fashion fabric along the edge of the lining.
• Starting on the longest side of each piece, serge.
  • We do not cut off any of the lining pieces when serging. Serge just along the edge.
• Press
• Sew the other side.
• For our method, we do not serge the top and bottom edges.