Flat Lining
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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.