What goes in a tech pack for sneakers?
The drawing, the materials and hardware, the finished measurements and the construction notes a specialist maker quotes from. Drop one photo of your sneaker and get its technical flat, free with no account; the pattern itself is made by the maker, not drafted here.
Drop your sneaker 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 sneaker
A tech pack for sneakers is the brief a specialist maker quotes from: the drawing, the materials, the measurements and how the piece is put together.
Measure a sneaker you like and write its finished dimensions and hardware sizes into the pack; the maker builds the pattern from them.
Most sneakers start from cotton canvas; neoprene is the less usual line on a bill of materials.
What you get
A technical flat of your sneaker, drawn from one photo in black line on white, ready for the materials and measurements of your tech pack.
Step by step
- Photograph the sneaker 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 sneakers
- Cotton canvas
- 340 to 500 g/m²; machine wash at 30 to 40 °C
- Shoe upper leather
- 1.2 to 1.6 mm thick; leather specialist clean only
- Polyester engineered mesh
- No cloth weight: the trade quotes the yarn or the material instead; machine wash at 30 to 40 °C
- Neoprene
- 2 to 3 mm thick; hand wash cold, dry flat
Typical trade ranges, not one mill's figures: confirm them with your mill.
The sneaker, in numbers
A sneaker is an upper of several panels stitched together and bonded or stitched to a rubber sole. It is made on a last, so its pattern is drafted around the shape of the last.
- Key measurements
- Foot length and width
- 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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