Bindings: The knit finish worth mastering #124

If you hear a little rustling in the background, it's because I have a table full of these...

Binding attachments.

You come prepared.

Yes, I come prepared.

I mean, it's a whole world out there.

But before we start doing that, I'm curious, from your perspective, from the garment industry, why is the choice sometimes to use a binding? And I guess we need first to explain exactly what is a binding.

Can you help me with that? What is a binding compared to, say, a neckband, for instance?

Yeah I mean a binding is basically you have the raw edge of the fabric like the neckline the raw neckline edge and then you have a strip of fabric that you like enclosed this raw edge on.

So it will be no visible like overlock seam, like no seam allowance will be visible in that sense.

It will look very neat from the inside also.

No seam allowance that will flip on the other side.

But it will be a little bit thicker.

So basically it could be depending a little bit on what type of binding you have.

You have like, okay, so the main fabric, then the fold and the binding, right? Three layers, they have four layers at the minimum, maybe even five layers of fabric.

So it does add a little bit of thickness.

And usually it's a design feature, I would say, like in the garment industry, if you want it or not.

Like it gives a certain look.

So usually in the neckline, it's more...

Yeah, I mean, sure, some fabrics it's more suitable to do one way or the other.

Sometimes you have it on the sleeve opening, you have a binding.

A little bit with caution there, because...

It doesn't...

A regular hemmed sleeve is going to be more stretchy, elastic, compared to if you have a binding there.

So if you...

I don't think you ever see, like, the bodice is hemmed with a binding.