Crafts, design and product development

Working from a design, costume makers produce costumes all the way to the finished product. Key tasks include:

• Working together with designers
• Knowledge of materials: textiles’ quality and areas of application
• Knowledge of the history of costumes
• Production, forming and modelling of patterns for costumes
• Sewing and other techniques for production of costumes
• Use of machines and tools
• Fitting and alterations of costumes
• Adaptation of costumes to the production’s overall visual design
• Planning, implementation, documentation and quality control of all work
• Innovation and development of the trade

It is important that costume makers are creative and imaginative, with a keen sense of form and colour.