Fabric Put-Up: The Five Ways Fabric Arrives

"Put-up" is the manner in which a fabric supplier folds or rolls the goods for delivery. It sounds like a logistics detail, but it is not: the put-up, together with the fabric's characteristics, decides which marker type you can use and how the fabric must be spread and cut. Get it wrong and your face-up assumptions, symmetry handling, and table width all break. Here are the five put-ups and what each one dictates downstream.

Why put-up controls cutting

Every put-up orients the technical face of the fabric a particular way (inside a roll, folded face-to-face, etc.) and presents the goods at a particular width. Those two facts determine whether you can run an open marker face-up, whether you need a closed/folded marker, and whether your cutting table is even wide enough. Read the put-up before you plan the spread.