Cutting-room visit and one chart sheet
Seconds and remnant chart
Seconds collect in a pile that everyone can see and nobody has counted the same way. The remnant chart uses the slips the cutting room already writes, and it keeps weaving faults on a different line from pieces lost at the table.
Who it is for
Cutting-room leads and mill owners who argue, at the end of the month, about whether the waste came off the loom or off the table.
What you receive
One chart sheet for the named month, plus a short note of which slips were missing. The sheet stays in the cutting room.
Inside the commission
- A visit while the month’s slips and the remnant pile are still in the room
- Sorting slips into weaving faults, cutting losses, and unmarked pieces
- One inked chart and a pencil copy for the office
Outside the commission
- Changing the cutting plan
- Selling or disposing of remnants
- Months whose slips have already been thrown out
How the work proceeds
- The pileWe look at the physical remnants and the slips together. A slip without cloth, or cloth without a slip, is marked as unmatched.
- The splitWeaving faults and cutting losses are drawn as separate bands. Unmarked pieces stay in their own band rather than being guessed into a cause.
- The sheetThe chart is reviewed with the cutting-room lead before it is inked.
What to have ready
Do not clear the remnant table the day before we arrive. Keep the month’s slips clipped in date order if you can.
One cutting room and one calendar month. A second month is a second commission.