6.4 MARKING TOOL: Marking tools helps to mark the details of patterns such as seam lines, cut lines, darts, pleats etc. Marking tools are 1. Color Pencil (Red & Blue) 2. Marking chalk 3. Tracing Wheel Bell Pins & Pin Cushion Wooden Table 1. Color Pencil (Red & Blue): While drafting pattern on a newspaper, Red & Blue Pencil is necessary. The stitching line is marked using blue pencil and cutting line is marked using Red Pencil.

The Chinese who first cultivated the silkworm and developed a silk industry endeavored to keep the source of the raw material secret. Their silk fabrics were highly priced. Caravans carried silk into the Near East where they were traded for hundreds of years. About three thousand years after its original discovery the secret was stolen out of China.