- 1.6 meters for 58 - 60 inches wide fabric
- 2.25 meters for 36 - 44 inches wide fabric
In the shop and online stores, the cut piece fabric for shirting (unstitched fabric) is available in 2.25 meters (width 36-44") and 1.6 meters (58-60")
If you want to know cloth length in yards, then just multiply the meters by 1.09361.
Calculator:
If you want to calculate actual fabric consumption for a woven shirt from the measurement sheet use this online calculator.
Real Example:
A shirt manufacturing unit (domestic brands) use to the following chart for fabric requirement in different types of shirt designs. You may find this useful.
Note: The factory used to cut multiple shirts in a single layer and makes shirts in 4 sizes (S, M, L, XL) in a ratio of 1:2:2:1
Also note for large check and stripes pattern repeat, if the tailor needs to match the stripes and check, fabric requirement will increase.
Real Example:
A shirt manufacturing unit (domestic brands) use to the following chart for fabric requirement in different types of shirt designs. You may find this useful.
Shirt type
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Fabric consumption when fabric width is 60 inch
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Fabric consumption when fabric width is 44 inch
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Formal Full Sleeve
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1.6 meters
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2.10 meters
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Formal Half Sleeve
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1.4 meters
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1.90 meters
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Short Shirt Full sleeve
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1.45 meters
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1.90 meters
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Short Shirt Half Sleeve
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1.3 meters
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1.75 meters
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Also note for large check and stripes pattern repeat, if the tailor needs to match the stripes and check, fabric requirement will increase.
Advanced knowledge:
The average fabric requirement in length is different in mass shirt production compared to the custom-made shirt. As in the mass-production, a garment factory use to cut multiple shirts in one layer and reduce the fabric wastage in two ends of the cloth.
Also for different shirt sizes (Small, Medium, Large, Extra-large), a different length of fabric is required depending on the shirt length. They use pattern nesting software (marker making) to maximize the fabric utilization. Thus they reduce the fabric consumption per shirt.
At the end, the cost of a shirt depends on the fabric consumption.
There are many other ways of saving fabric and optimize the shirt cost.
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