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| Decision field | Open accessApparel Measurement Tolerance Setting RecordGlobalRemove | Open accessFreeSewingGlobalRemove | Open accessGarment POM Definition & Verification RecordGlobalRemove | Free accountTextilliaGlobalRemove |
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| Decision fit | ||||
| Primary job | Source production | Find patterns & fit | Source production | Find patterns & fit |
| Also useful for | No additional job recorded | No additional job recorded | No additional job recorded | No additional job recorded |
| Area | Production | Patterns & fit | Production | Patterns & fit |
| Best for | Turning an inherited or proposed garment tolerance into a controlled POM method, capability study, decision boundary, inspection rule, and change record | Custom-fit home sewing patterns | Turning an ambiguous POM name, code, or diagram into a reproducible method before setting targets, tolerances, or inspection decisions | Cross-referencing sewing patterns, materials, and member projects |
| Know before using | The record does not supply universal POM values, validate fit across a population, prove process capability, choose a statistical study or sampling plan, reproduce licensed standards, or replace qualified technical, fit, quality, statistical, safety, compliance, and legal review. | A generated pattern is not independent fit evidence or a production-ready graded block. The result still depends on accurate measurements, the selected design and options, ease assumptions, fabric behavior, construction, and representative test garments. An account stores saved patterns and measurement sets, so review the platform's privacy terms before retaining personal measurements. | 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. | Textillia is community-contributed and now runs with minimal maintenance, so record freshness, coverage, moderation speed, and continued availability require direct inspection. It does not sell the indexed patterns or materials. Confirm pattern files, sizing, measurements, availability, licence, errata, fabric details, and seller terms with the responsible designer, publisher, or manufacturer. Account deletion permanently removes uploaded projects, and the checked pages do not establish a complete export route. |
| Practical access | ||||
| For | Apparel brands | Makers | Apparel brands | Makers |
| Location or jurisdiction | Global | Global | Global | Global |
| Access | Open access | Open access | Open access | Free account |
| Format | Stitch Authority | Software | Stitch Authority | Community |
| Source type | Stitch Authority | Open-source project | Stitch Authority | Community database |
| Account, payment, and exit | ||||
| Access scope | Not yet reviewed at this level. | Not yet reviewed at this level. | Not yet reviewed at this level. | Sewer or textile maker cross-referencing patterns, materials, projects, resources, designers, companies, and shops. |
| Before an account | Not yet reviewed at this level. | Not yet reviewed at this level. | Not yet reviewed at this level. | Browse public pattern, material, project, about, FAQ, and blog pages. Search and full database or community access route through sign-in. |
| Free-account boundary | Not yet reviewed at this level. | Not yet reviewed at this level. | Not yet reviewed at this level. | A free account provides full database access, contribution, project and stash organization, forums, profiles, and related community tools. |
| Payment boundary | Not yet reviewed at this level. | Not yet reviewed at this level. | Not yet reviewed at this level. | The current FAQ says the planned membership system will not launch and the site will not charge for access. Donations and shirt purchases are optional and separate. |
| Cancellation or exit | Not yet reviewed at this level. | Not yet reviewed at this level. | Not yet reviewed at this level. | The FAQ links an account-cancellation process and says deletion is permanent, removes uploaded projects, and does not separately cancel newsletters or recurring donations. |
| Saved work and data | Not yet reviewed at this level. | Not yet reviewed at this level. | Not yet reviewed at this level. | Members can add projects, patterns, materials, and organization records. The checked pages establish permanent project deletion with account closure but no complete export route, so retain important records elsewhere. |
| Source and review | ||||
| What the source establishes | The guide cites current ISO, AATCC, and NIST sources for body and garment measurement boundaries, textile conditioning, dimensional-change testing, repeatability and reproducibility, and AQL-indexed sampling, while requiring the live product owner to set rather than inherit numerical tolerances. | FreeSewing's official documentation says the browser editor drafts a selected design in real time from a measurement set rather than scaling or grading a standard-size pattern. Users can adjust design options and export the generated result, including as PDF; saving the pattern to an account is optional and is used to revisit it later. | 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. | Textillia's current about page describes an independent, centralized, crowdsourced database that cross-references sewing patterns, materials, resources, projects, designers, companies, and shops. Its FAQ says the site does not sell patterns or fabric, logged-in members can add records, full database access uses a free account, and paid memberships will not launch. A February 2026 notice says the dissolved company will continue the site as a donation-supported hobby project with minimal maintenance and reduced active development. |
| Linked page reviewed | Jul 15, 2026 | Jul 21, 2026 | Jul 16, 2026 | Jul 28, 2026 |
| Next review due | Jul 15, 2027 | Jan 17, 2027 | Jul 16, 2027 | Jan 24, 2027 |
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