Apparel Sewing Thread Consumption
Apparel Professionals often need find out thread consumption of various items like Shirt, Shorts, Tank tops, Pants and so on. Thread consumption means how much thread we need to stitch a product. To calculate thread consumption, we’ve to pay concentration on sewing machines, number of needles, fabric thickness & above all how much thread is used to stitch 1 inch by a machine. And you need consider minimum 10% wastage to find out thread consumption of a product. Information below shows you how much threads you need to stitch 1 inch of fabric. It differs fabric to fabric as on their GSM & construction. Besides you can stitch 10 inches of a fabric, then cut 1 inch stitch, measure the length of each thread, then find out total length of threads & finally add wastage minimum 10%. We know, it’s a long process. Better we can memorize information below & imagine wastage depending on fabric GSM. For fabric with high GSM, we’ve to increase wastage percentage. If we want to figure out thread consumption of a shirt, then firstly we’ve to separate the different stitching of that shirt. Look information below for how much thread you need to stitch one inch fabric by different sewing machines.
Single Needle Plain Machine needs 2.75 inches thread for per inch stitch
2 Needles Plain Machine = 5.5 inches for per inch stitch
3 Threads Over lock Machine = 15 inches thread for per inch stitch
4 Threads Over lock Machine = 19 inches thread for per inch stitch
5 Threads Over lock M/c = 23 inches for per inch stitch
Safety Stitch = 20 inches for per inch stitch
Flat lock Stitch = 32 inches for per inch stitch
2 Needle Kansai M/c = 12 inches for per inch stitch
1 Needle Chain Stitches = 5 inches for per inch stitch
Feed of the Arm M/c = 11 inches for per inch stitch
Button Hole = 24 inches for per inch stitch
Bar take M/c = 26 inches for per inch stitch
Button Stitch of 2 Eyes (holes) = 3 inches thread
Button Stitch of 4 Eyes (holes) = 6 inches thread
A shirt having 104 inches 4 Threads Over lock stitches, 52 inches Flat
lock stitches, 20 inches 1 Needle Chain stitches, 15 inches Single
Needle Plain Machine stitches, GSM is normal, find out its thread
consumption in meters?
Answer: {(104 x 19) + (52 x
32) + (20 x 5) + (15 x 2.75) + 10%}/39.37 = 106.71 Meters.
(39.37 inches = 1 Meter)
Suppose,
we want to buy thread cones with 2000 meters thread, now find out how
many cones do we need to stitch 3000 pcs of garments, per garment’s
thread consumption 106.71 meters?
Answer: 106.71 x 3000 / 2000 = 160 cones.
You
can also visit following website that will provide you excel files for
calculating thread consumption of different apparel products.
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