Elements and Performance Criteria
- Establish work requirements and prepare for work
- Work health and safety (WHS) requirements, including ergonomic criteria and personal protection needs, are observed throughout the work
- Work order requirements are checked and confirmed
- Heading type is recognised to identify personal work requirements for measuring, calculating, sewing, folding and finishing
- Correct side of fabric, naps, direction of pattern and pattern matches are identified
- Lining attachment method is recognised to identify any attachments and fasteners, trims and sewing requirements
- Drapery panels are checked for faults
- Appropriate needle types for the fabric are selected and threaded
- Lay out work to be sewn
- Top fabric is folded bringing edges to be seamed together to match any pattern and to maintain an appropriate finished length following workplace quality requirements
- Linings and any interlining materials are laid out and folded ready for sewing
- Fabric is held together and, where required, supported with pins or other workplace approved methods
- Stitch seams and form corners
- Curtain fabrics are held to allow for personal right-hand or left-hand preference of the sewer, and manipulation requirements for the bulk and slipperiness of the materials
- Linings to be bagged are sewn in place
- Machine sewing operations are completed correctly
- Corners are folded and formed to match work order requirements, inserting any required weight bags
- Hems are completed using any required weights, stitch type and appropriate sewing method
- Corners are stitched and finished, and any loose threads trimmed
- Construct curtain headings
- Curtain heading tape is attached according to workplace approved method and job instructions
- Attached lining and interlinings are sewn into heading
- Sewn pleat spaces are kept uniform within drops
- Linings and interlinings are attached to curtain backs by sewing or using appropriate fasteners
- Care labels are fixed to heading or hem of curtain according to workplace standards
- Separate linings are sewn using appropriate heading tape and attached to curtain
- Finish work
- Complete work for next process