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Calculate the material requirement for tucks

Objectives: At the end of this exercise you will be able to
• calculate the material requirement for stitching tucks.

The following terms and measurements are important for the calculation of tucks: Example 1: A tucked component
shall be of 39 cm tucked width while the gap between the tucks is of 1.2 cm. How many tucks are to be stitched,
if the first and the last tuck is 1.5 cm away from the edge?
Solution
39 cm – (2 x 1.5 cm) = 36 cm

(distance between the first and the last tuck)
36 cm : 1.2 cm = 30 (gaps)
30 (gaps) + 1 = 31 (tucks)
The fundamentals for the calculation of tucks are similar to those for the calculation of buttons.
Example 2: A tucked component of 28 cm tucked width shall be prepared. There shall be a gap of 1.5 cm
between the tucks and the tucks shall be of 2 mm width. The first and the last tuck shall be 2 cm away from
the edges. What is to be the pattern width for the respective tucked component?
Solution
2 mm x 2 = 4 mm (material requirements for each tuck)
28 cm – (2 x 2 cm) = 24 cm (distance between the first and the last tuck)
24 cm : 1.7 cm = 14.1 ... (gaps) 15 gaps
15 (gaps) + 1 = 16 (tucks)
4 mm x 16 = 64 mm = 6.4 cm (for all tucks)
28 cm + 6.4 cm = 34.4 cm (pattern width)
24 cm : 15 = 1.6 cm (corrected gap between the tucks)
Explanation: If the number of gaps between the tucks so got is not a whole number, it must be rounded off (can be
rounded off to the next higher or to the next lower number). But then – as seen above – the gap between the
tucks as originally contemplated, has to be corrected by a fresh calculation.
Exercises
1 Calculate the number of tucks

Tucked width Gap between the tucks Distance of outer tucks from the edge
a 44 cm 2 cm 2 cm
b 24 cm 1.5 cm 1.5 cm

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CITS : Apparel - Dress Making - Exercise 48