What goes in a tech pack for belts?
The drawing, the materials and hardware, the finished measurements and the construction notes a specialist maker quotes from. Drop one photo of your belt and get its technical flat, free with no account; the pattern itself is made by the maker, not drafted here.
Drop your belt photo here
or choose one from your phone or computer
JPEG, PNG or WebP. Any phone photo works.
Your photo is stored for 30 days, then deleted. It is used to make your image, and by the studio if you continue there. If you order a pattern from it, a copy is kept with your order.
On this platform the AI does the design and visualisation work and a human pattern maker cuts the pattern. That split is deliberate. How the pattern is made.
Tech Pack for a belt
A tech pack for belts is the brief a specialist maker quotes from: the drawing, the materials, the measurements and how the piece is put together.
Measure a belt you like and write its finished dimensions and hardware sizes into the pack; the maker builds the pattern from them.
Most belts start from belt leather; polyester webbing is the less usual line on a bill of materials.
What you get
A technical flat of your belt, drawn from one photo in black line on white, ready for the materials and measurements of your tech pack.
Step by step
- Photograph the belt from the front, laid flat, in daylight.
- Get its technical flat from the flat sketch tool.
- Add the materials, trims and hardware, with their sizes.
- Send the pack to a specialist maker for a quote and a sample.
A common mistake
Sending a maker a picture with no measurements: the sample comes back in the size the maker guessed.
Bill of materials lines for belts
- Belt leather
- 3 to 4 mm thick; leather specialist clean only
- Cotton webbing
- No cloth weight: the trade quotes the yarn or the material instead; machine wash at 30 to 40 °C
- Polyester webbing
- No cloth weight: the trade quotes the yarn or the material instead; machine wash at 30 to 40 °C
Typical trade ranges, not one mill's figures: confirm them with your mill.
The belt, in numbers
A belt is a strap of leather or webbing with a buckle, sized to the waist plus an overlap. The edges, the stitching and the quality of the buckle are what show.
- Key measurements
- Waist
- Pattern pieces
- about 2 to 4
- Cloth needed
- Not cut from a roll of cloth: made from hide or webbing, or knitted to shape
Typical figures for an adult size M.
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