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.

(a) Needle (b) Scissor (c) Thimble (d) Thread 6. The red colour pencil helps to mark. (a) Stitching line (b) Cutting line (c) Darts (d) All the above 7. Tracing wheel, if used along with this tool, makes the marking more prominent.