What is ITI Cutting & Sewing (Tailoring) Course? - Salary, Scope & Career Option

ITI Cutting & Sewing Course Eligibility Criteria

• Education qualification: Candidate should have passed at least 10^th standard.
• Age limit: Candidate should be between 14 years and 40 years of age.
• Physical standard: The candidate should not have any problem related to hands and legs.

ITI Cutting & Sewing Course Skills

• Knowledge of basic mathematics: The candidate must have knowledge of basic mathematics. Mathematics is also used in sewing such as measurement of clothes, cutting measurement, length, width, height, size calculation etc. for which the candidate must have basic mathematics skills.
• Physical stamina: The tailor has to sit at one place for many hours and sew, which uses both feet and hands.
• Time management: Time management skills help the candidate to complete many contracts in a short time.
• Teamwork: The tailor has to work with a team in the factory, boutique store in which one person cuts the cloth and the other person sews it.
• Accuracy in work: While sewing the design and size of the clothes the tailor has to do the work with complete accuracy for which this skill is necessary in the candidate.
• Resource management: While cutting clothes many parts of the cloth get wasted to reduce or reuse this wastage resource management skills are necessary in the candidate.
• Basic knowledge of types of fabrics: Candidate must have basic knowledge about types of fabrics like silk, cotton, linen, wool, etc.

Career Options after ITI Cutting & Sewing

• Garment Factory: In garment manufacturing units or factories a tailor takes the size of the clothes, cuts the clothes, and stitches the clothes.
• Alteration specialist: The alteration specialist does the work of changing the size of the clothes, making them smaller or bigger, fitting or loose.
• Self-employment: In self-employment a tailor works from his own boutique, tailor shop or home.
• Embroidery tailor: Embroidery tailor does the work of making designs on clothes, wedding dresses, etc.
• Pattern Maker: Pattern Maker works in a garment factory, tailor shop, boutique to make the pattern of clothes after which the clothes are cut on the same pattern.
• Quality Control Inspector: Quality Control Inspector works in a garment factory to separate torn and undersized clothes from packing.
• Tailoring Class: After doing ITI Cutting & Sewing course candidates can start their own tailoring class, In which he can teach tailoring to other people.
• Boutique Owner: Boutique tailor makes dresses by bringing raw cloth material or by stitching plain cloth given by the customer.
• Blogger or YouTuber: After completing this course a candidate can create their own blogging website or YouTube channel and earn money by sharing information about trending clothes, embroidery on clothes, clothing fashion through the blog or channel.
• Tailor Contractor: Tailor contractor works either on his own or with his employees to make uniforms, weeding clothes, formal wear, staff clothing to fulfill factory, school, company contracts.

ITI Cutting & Sewing Salary

• Village Tailor: A village tailor can earn from ₹5,000 to ₹15,000 per month.
• City Tailor: A city tailor can earn from ₹8,000 to ₹25,000 per month.
• Industry Tailor (Factory and Textile Industry): An Industry Tailor can earn from ₹10,000 to ₹40,000 per month.

2. Private Sector

• Garment Manufacturing Unit
• Boutique
• Fashion Retail
• Fashion Studio
• Fashion Designing
• Costume Design
• Crafting Accessories (bags, purses, belt)
• Crafting Toys (footballs, basketballs, cricket ball)

1. Government Company

• Ordnance Clothing Factory (OCF) (Manufacture Army, Navy, and Air Force Uniforms, jackets)
• Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC)
• Bhartiya Vastra evam Shilpa Kosh
• Cotton Corporation of India Ltd
• State Government Textile Company

2. Private Company

• Raymond Ltd.
• Arvind Limited
• Aditya Birla Group (Louis Philippe, Van Heusen, and Pantaloons)
• Reliance Retail
• Vardhman Textiles Ltd.
• Rupa & Company Ltd.
• Myntra Designs Pvt. Ltd.
• Fabindia
• Tata Textile Mills
• Shahi Exports Pvt. Ltd.
• Blackberrys Menswear
• Gokaldas Exports Ltd.
• Zodiac Clothing Company Ltd.
• Lilliput Kidswear Ltd.

1. Diploma Course

• Diploma in Fashion Designing
• Diploma in Textile Designing
• Diploma in Garment Technology
• Diploma in Textile Engineering
• Diploma in Apparel Pattern Making
• Diploma in Fashion Merchandising

2. Under Graduation Courses

• Bachelor of Fashion Design
• Bachelor of Textile Design
• Bachelor of Fashion Technology
• Bachelor of Design (B.Des) in Fashion Design
• Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Textile Engineering

3. Master Courses

• Master of Fashion Design (M.F.D)
• Master of Textile Design
• Master of Fashion Management (M.F.M)
• Master of Apparel Production and Management
• Master of Design (M.Des) in Fashion Design
• Master of Technology (M.Tech) in Textile Engineering

ITI Cutting & Sewing Additional Certificate Course

• Certification in Pattern Making
• Certification in Fashion Styling
• Certification in Embroidery Technique

ITI Cutting & Sewing Course Advantage

• High Demand: Tailoring is in demand both in villages and cities where apart from daily wear clothes and traditional attire, fashion trends, styles and changes in clothes are required which the tailor does.
• Self-employment option: Tailoring is an independent career option of self employment after doing ITI Cutting & Sewing course. In this field candidates can start their own boutique or alteration shop business and can also give employment to other people.
• Creative field: ITI Cutting & Sewing is a creative field due to skills like designing clothes, sewing, and embroidery.

ITI Cutting & Sewing Course Disadvantage

• Physical stress: Tailoring work continues for a long time due to repetitive hand motions and continuous operation of sewing machine with feet physical problems like carpal tunnel syndrome, musculoskeletal, back pain, headache, neck tension occur.
• Skill Based: In ITI Cutting & Sewing the tailor is required to sew, design and modify all types of clothes from modern to old types of clothes.
• Industry Work: In a textile factory the tailor has to stitch a lot of clothes as per the daily target.
• Customer Type Dependent: Generally both men and women buy ready-made or pre-made clothes. In this too women need more tailors than men. Because some of the clothes of women are not readymade according to the body size they have to go to the tailor to get them stitched.
• Customer Customization: Sometimes ready-made clothes do not fit customers properly and they need to be altered by a tailor. The tailor job is to adjust the clothes according to the customers measurements so that they fit comfortably. In this process the tailor has to change the length and overall silhouette of the clothes many times.
• Workload: A tailor has to stitch a lot of clothes, which can take him weeks and months to complete. However this work depends on the tailor.
• Customer preference: To stitch clothes the tailor has to work keeping in mind the customers preference. if the stitching of any clothes goes wrong during stitching then he has to face the anger of the customer, and also has to compensate for the loss.