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A Cut Above The Rest
- Authors: Rose Samuels and Ronnie Hoffman
- Illustrations: Tony Kentuck
- ISBN: 0 646 13687 9
- AU$12.99 for hard copy book
- AU$ 8.00 for e-Book/PDF
- 72 pages plus cover
- The cutting porcess cannot be reversed. There is no practical way to re-seal a knife-cut in a fabric. Though it is the first
manufacturing activity in a series, cutting is the point of no return. If the cutting is right, all processes which follow it have
a chance to be right. If the cutting is wrong, the problem will persist, and perhaps be multiplied, as the manufacturing process proceeds.
- A Cut Above The Rest aims to explain the process which takes fabric from its arrival in bulk to its departure,
in accurately-cut pieces, of the right number, in the right order, at the correct moment, towards sewing machines and assembly.
And it offers this explanation in simple terms which are as jargon-free as possible.
- The two authors provide a balanced blend of experience. One has spent fourteen years either working as a cutter,
or teaching cutting skills to technical students and teachers. The other has spent twenty years as a business journalist,
broadcaster and author.
Both received great encouragement, support and assistance from the Manufacturing Training Division of TAFE (NSW), from the
Australian TCF Industry Training Board (NSW), from the NSW Chamber of Manufacturers and from the NSW Education and Training Foundation.
- Please click here for Table of Contents.
- In a recent edition of the publication RagTrader the author Fraser wrote the following article:
Quiz. What book written about the Australian fashion industry is now in its 12th reprint? The answer is
A Cut Above The Rest
written jointly by Rose Samuels and Ronnie Hoffman. It is one of four books co-written by Ronnie, who wanted to present simple facts about
how garments are made. They have all been taken up by various Australian TAFE colleges, and sell year after year.
A Cut Above The Rest deals with laying up fabric and turning it into cut pieces
ready for sewing while Tried And Tested
deals with quality control, Fancy Stitching with embroidery and
Hanging By A Thread with sewing threads.
Apart from their academic application, Ronnie's books are simply expressed basic information for anybody involved in garment
manufacture. They've also got quite funny cartoons to lighten the message.
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The Authors:
- Rose Samuels is a member of the Faculty of Manufacturing at the Sydney Institute of Technology, TAFE, New South Wales.
Her career began in the cutting room of an Australian garment manufacturing company. Since then, in a continuous fourteen-year association
with the industry, she has worked in every sector of apparel design and production.
During Samuels' six years in vocational education she has taught students, develped training resources and lectured to fashion teaching
staff on marking and cutting.
Samuels' own training was acquired in Australia and supplemented in the USA. She has conducted formal studies of garment industry
work practices in Australia, USA and Hong Kong.
- Ronnie Hoffman worked for two decades as a journalist, writer and broadcaster in Britain, Ireland and France.
He developed a special interest in business affairs.
Moving to Australia in the mid nineteen-eighties, Hoffman was appointed editor of Inside Retailing.
After two years he set up his own company and began to publish training packages, books, industry journals and magazines such as
SewTrade, adopted as the official organ of the Clothing and Footwear Institute.
From a background which began in daily newspapers, then moved through to documentary-making and into business magazines and books,
Hoffman has published detailed studies of industry and finance, a marketing textbook, a series of
guidebooks for exporters and a variety of other training modules.
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Chapter one –
WHAT HAPPENS IN THE CUTTING ROOM? 9
Chapter two –
CUTTING – AN OVERVIEW 11
Chapter three –
PIECE GOODS – WHERE QUALITY BEGINS 15
Chapter four –
CUTTING ORDERS 23
Chapter five –
THE MARKER – WHAT AND WHY 27
Chapter six –
THE MARKER – HOW IT IS MADE 33
Chapter seven –
SPREADING 41
Chapter eight –
CUTTING – WHAT, WHERE AND HOW 47
Chapter nine –
CUTTING – CRAFT AND TECHNIQUES 53
Chapter ten –
THE BIG PICTURE KEEPS CHANGING 57
Safety notes –
FABRIC IN WORK – FINGERS INTACT 63
INDEX 69
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