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| Decision field | Free accountRavelryGlobalRemove | Open accessTech Pack Definition, Contents & LimitsGlobalRemove | Open accessGarment POM Definition & Verification RecordGlobalRemove |
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| Decision fit | |||
| Primary job | Choose materials | Source production | Source production |
| Also useful for | No additional job recorded | No additional job recorded | No additional job recorded |
| Area | Yarn | Production | Production |
| Best for | Broad pattern, yarn, and project research | Understanding what a tech pack must control before using a template or releasing work | Turning an ambiguous POM name, code, or diagram into a reproducible method before setting targets, tolerances, or inspection decisions |
| Know before using | An account is required and community, publisher, designer, shop, yarn, and project records can vary in currency and accuracy. Search results, ratings, favorites, and project examples do not establish pattern accuracy, yarn availability, seller reliability, fit, gauge, or project suitability. Confirm current files, errata, license, purchase and refund terms, measurements, yarn details, and shop information with the responsible source. | An orientation rather than a completed product record; it does not supply a universal format, licensed standard content, measurements, tolerances, construction settings, labels, approvals, compliance conclusion, or product-release authority. | The record does not reproduce licensed ISO measurement drawings, supply universal POM codes or targets, approve an internal method, prove measurement capability or product fit, or replace qualified technical-design, pattern, fit, quality, metrology, safety, and regulatory review. |
| Practical access | |||
| For | Makers | Apparel brands | Apparel brands |
| Location or jurisdiction | Global | Global | Global |
| Access | Free account | Open access | Open access |
| Format | Community | Stitch Authority | Stitch Authority |
| Source type | Community database | Stitch Authority | Stitch Authority |
| Account, payment, and exit | |||
| Access scope | Knitter or crocheter researching patterns and yarns while keeping notebook records. | Not yet reviewed at this level. | Not yet reviewed at this level. |
| Before an account | Official about, login, and signup pages are public, but the useful database, notebook, and community route requires sign-in. | Not yet reviewed at this level. | Not yet reviewed at this level. |
| Free-account boundary | A free account requires a valid email signup link and enables the database, notebook, directories, groups, and forums. | Not yet reviewed at this level. | Not yet reviewed at this level. |
| Payment boundary | The core platform account is free. Individual patterns and other marketplace items may have separate provider-set prices; those purchases are not a user subscription. | Not yet reviewed at this level. | Not yet reviewed at this level. |
| Cancellation or exit | The checked public about, login, and signup pages do not establish cancellation, deletion, or post-exit access. Verify the current in-account help before contributing records. | Not yet reviewed at this level. | Not yet reviewed at this level. |
| Saved work and data | The personal notebook can hold projects, stash, tools, and a pattern library, but the checked public pages do not establish a complete export route. Keep source files and critical records locally. | Not yet reviewed at this level. | Not yet reviewed at this level. |
| Source and review | |||
| What the source establishes | Ravelry's official description identifies a user-driven database of knitting and crochet patterns and yarns, searchable directories for designers, pattern sources, local yarn stores and yarn brands, and a personal notebook for projects, stash, tools, library items, queues, and favorites. Community members and volunteer editors add and maintain the database records. | The guide cites published ISO sources for documented-information, garment-measurement, stitch, and seam boundaries plus current U.S. FTC textile and care-labeling guidance; it discloses that ISO 10013:2021's 2026 systematic review is at close-of-review stage and separates every cited authority from product-specific technical and market decisions. | The guide cites current ISO garment-measurement, body-measurement, and textile-conditioning standards plus NIST measurement-process guidance for repeatability and reproducibility; it requires organization-specific codes, added points, targets, and tolerances to remain explicitly controlled. |
| Linked page reviewed | Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 27, 2026 | Jul 16, 2026 |
| Next review due | Jan 24, 2027 | Jul 27, 2027 | Jul 16, 2027 |
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