Pattern alteration can be best done by a slash and spread method for enlarging a pattern and fold pleat for reducing it. While altering a pattern it is necessary that all grain lines must be straight.

3. Press Cloth: Fabrics used as press cloth should be color fast and should be washed or boiled to remove starch. 4. Sleeve board: This item is a small ironing board about 20 (.5 m) long used to press narrow areas, such as sleeves, which cannot fit over the end of a regular ironing board.