You may also want to consult the pattern makers group and the garment manufactures group at the Fashion Industry Network.  You may want to also check out the pattern making books section if you want to learn more about patterns, marking, and grading.

  AAA Patterns & Marking Services : Pattern making, grading, marker making, and plotting services for Apparel Designers, manufacturers and cutting facilities.  They will help you develop Men's, women's, juniors, children's clothing, and uniforms, with professional design services that save you time and money.  They help with first patterns, production patterns, grading, material utilization.

  Create-A-Marker Inc. : Create-a-Marker, Inc. is one of the leading computerized grading and marking companies that serves the apparel industry with state of the art equipment and large facilities. They work with not just one system, but six  Lectra, Gerber/Micro,Optitex, PAD, Tuka and Polygon systems. They also have a Gerber cutting edge pattern cutter that can produce your patterns on oak tag quickly and efficiently. The File Formats that they currently read, write, open and support are : .PLT, .PLX/PLA, .MDL, .IBA, .PGM, .DXF, .AAMA, .HPGL,.DSN, .TUD, .TUM, .TMP. Average turn around time provided is approximately 48 hours. The C.A.M teams of qualified garment technicians are able to consistently provide the same quality and accuracy as well as efficiency. They offer equal turn around time to their national and international as well as their local customers. You can also send your orders via phone; fax, e-mail, mail or one of their messengers will pick up your orders (if you are local). They guarantee optimum fabric utilization and cost effectiveness. They provide a copy service and storage of original markers and can also send markers via e-mail or shipped anywhere. USB Flash Drives are also available if you require them. Mini markers can be produced for your approval to ensure quality control, as well as plot-outs of any existing markers, which are stored in their large database.  Address: 254 West 35th Street, 10th Fl., NYC 10018 Phone#: 212-730-5615 Fax#: 212-730-5615 Email: createamarker@aol.com  Contact:: Paul Cavazza

  Fall River Apparel : Fall Riber Apparel  uses Gerber Accumark technology to convert sample patterns into ready-to-cut markers. The markers are sent electronically to the in-house cutting machine or printed and sent to a cutting service of your choice. They can also send the data electronically if needed. They will grade patterns to customer specific size ranges and specifications. Their experienced technicians will ensure minimum use of fabric while creating industry standard markers. They will also contract with established pattern makers to create first patterns and develop technical specifications if needed.  They take pride in their attention to detail.

  Pattern Grading & Marking by Andrew Gloninger : he provides a full range of pattern grading and marking services, starting with your pattern parts or CAD file, and ending with finished production markers, printed to your precise specifications and optimized for fabric utilization.

  Taylor Patterns : An apparel service offering pattern making, grading, marker making, plotting, digitizing, yardage estimates. With fit, specification, cutting and MU consultation.  Address: PO Box 54 890 Cliffview DR Rogers KY 41365 Phone: 606-668-9304 Fax: 866-800-4011 E-mail: martin@taylorpatterns.com  Contact : Martin Taylor

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  West End Grading (United Kingdom) : West End Grading is a company on the cutting edge of clothing technology with the latest Gerber Accumark software and hardware, offering computerized grading and marker making services to the clothing industry.

We hope this helped you learn more about fabric marking and grading and where to find service providers to assist you with your project.