What goes in a tech pack for hats?
The drawing, the materials and hardware, the finished measurements and the construction notes a specialist maker quotes from. Drop one photo of your hat and get its technical flat, free with no account; the pattern itself is made by the maker, not drafted here.
Drop your hat 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 hat
A tech pack for hats is the brief a specialist maker quotes from: the drawing, the materials, the measurements and how the piece is put together.
Measure a hat you like and write its finished dimensions and hardware sizes into the pack; the maker builds the pattern from them.
Most hats start from cotton twill; wool melton is the less usual line on a bill of materials.
What you get
A technical flat of your hat, drawn from one photo in black line on white, ready for the materials and measurements of your tech pack.
Step by step
- Photograph the hat 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 hats
- Cotton twill
- 200 to 320 g/m²; machine wash at 30 to 40 °C
- Lightweight denim
- 240 to 340 g/m²; machine wash cold, inside out
- Polyester twill
- 150 to 220 g/m²; machine wash at 30 to 40 °C
- Wool melton
- 400 to 600 g/m²; dry clean
Typical trade ranges, not one mill's figures: confirm them with your mill.
The hat, in numbers
A hat can be anything from a bucket hat to a fedora; its crown, brim and inner band define it. Felt and straw hats are blocked on a form rather than sewn from flat pieces.
- Key measurements
- Head
- Pattern pieces
- about 3 to 8
- Cloth needed
- about 0.3 to 0.6 m of 150 cm cloth
Typical figures for an adult size M.
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