About 20 years ago, an old man walked into Ronald Nizza's workshop in Queens. Now as then, R&R Pattern Works is a clean, well-lighted space artfully filled with woodworking machines -- jointers, ...

Clothes move so quickly on the runway, it can be easy to miss the excellence of construction, finishing and fit that go into making samples for fashion’s leading houses. As a pattern-maker who closely ...

California-based 3D design and automation software firm vPersonalize has developed an online pattern maker that it claims offers an intuitive user interface and “powerful” collaboration capabilities.

Jen Beeman is a pattern maker based in Chicago. She runs the patternshop Grainline Studio. Here’s how she describes her job: “Nobody ever realizes that people are involved in the making of your ...