What you get
Persephone is a sewing-pattern studio that takes a garment — as a picture, a sketch or a sentence — and hands you back the thing you can actually cut from fabric: illustrated, connected, fitted pattern pieces, printed at true scale. Here is the whole journey, and everything that comes with it.
From garment to pattern, in the open
Seven stages- 01
Bring the garment
Start from a photograph, a sketch, a fashion illustration, an existing pattern piece or chart — or just words. A picture is a prompt; nothing is required beyond the garment itself, and whatever you supply is kept with the project permanently as the original reference.
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See it illustrated
Persephone draws clean technical front and back views of the design on the wearer's kind of body — never a generic garment of the same category. If the back was never shown, she constructs and labels one as an inferred back. Nothing is drafted until these illustrations exist.
- 03
Understand the construction
She reads the visible construction: which seams hold the garment together, which details are decoration, which regions of fabric must exist as separate pieces. Every piece exists because the garment's construction requires it — never because a template contains it.
- 04
Draft connected pieces
The garment is divided into sewable regions and each region becomes a pattern piece with smooth sewing curves, named edges, darts, notches, grainlines, cut quantities and fold instructions. Every edge knows its partner: piece, edge, relationship type, measured length.
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Read the pattern back
Persephone then assembles her own pattern on paper: if these exact pieces were cut and the named seams sewn, what garment would they make? That reconstruction is compared against the intended garment, and mismatches are corrected in the pattern itself — never by redrawing a prettier picture.
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Fit it to a body
Choose a standard size from the charts, grade the whole set to it, or enter your own measurements and have the pattern redrafted to your exact fit. Seam allowances, stitch lengths and cut quantities re-measure to whole millimetres at every size.
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Print and sew
Export print-at-home tiles or a nested size run with test squares, registration marks, page numbers, piece names and fold indicators — the same verified geometry you saw on screen, at true scale. A sew-along booklet and cutting layout with yardage come with it.
Everything included
With every project- Technical illustrations
- Front and back views of the design, in its own proportions, before any pattern work begins.
- Illustrated pattern pieces
- Every manufacturable fabric piece drawn clean and labelled — no jagged technical clutter, no raw geometry on screen.
- Seam relationship map
- Which piece sews to which, along which edge, with grading effects shown so lengths stay matched at every size.
- Size charts for every body
- Women's, men's, children's and pet charts — grade the entire pattern set to any row with one tap.
- Personal fit calculator
- Enter your own measurements, save the fit, set it as your default, and redraft any project to it exactly.
- Seam allowances, computed
- Stitch line solid, cut line dashed, allowance derived and graded per size — including fold and mirror rules for cut quantities.
- Cutting layout and yardage
- Fabric-aware nesting: one-way prints, napped fabrics, stripe and check repeat matching.
- Sewing instructions
- Written from the actual seam map of your actual pattern, naming the real pieces and seams — never generic boilerplate.
- True-scale printing and export
- Print-at-home tiling or full-size export with every marker a cutting table needs.
How she thinks
House rules- Any body
- Women, men, children and animals. Persephone works out who the garment is for from your reference and draws and drafts for that form — never one fixed mannequin.
- Honest stages
- A step is finished only when its real work exists. No placeholder pieces, no faked success, and a pattern that fails its checks does not reach grading or printing.
- Your reference, kept
- The picture or description you start with stays with the project forever, so every piece can be traced back to the part of the garment that caused it.
Bring a garment. Leave with a pattern.
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