Pattern (sewing)
A pattern in sewing and fashion design is the paper or cardboard template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric before cutting out and assembling (sometimes called paper patterns).
Patternmaking, pattern making or pattern cutting is the science of designing patterns.
A custom-fitted basic pattern from which patterns for many different styles can be created is called a sloper (home sewing) or block (industrial production).
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“We took advantage of [the Indians’] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)