{"id":84050,"key":"Tools_for_Fabric_Mask_Makers","title":"Tools for Fabric Mask Makers","latest":{"id":1188858,"timestamp":"2025-09-19T14:25:14Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"{{Highlight\n| title = These masks are NOT approved for COVID-19 prevention. [https://www.nytimes.com/article/how-to-make-face-mask-coronavirus.html More information]\n}}\n\n[[User:M.Kreiger]] created this page to create a \"repository\" of sorts for seamstresses to gather information on tools that can help them make masks faster.\nLike most of my work, this page is a work in progress.\n\n== St Charles Healthcare Mask (SCH) ==\n\nTo find the most updated information for this mask, please visit:\n\n* [https://www.stcharleshealthcare.org/covid-19/hand-sewn-masks St Charles Healthcare: Hand-sewn-masks page]\n* [https://www.stcharleshealthcare.org/sites/default/files/Featured%20Images/COVID19/FL_COVID_Masks%5B1%5D.pdf Directions for SCH mask]\n\n== How to make SCH mask ==\n\n[[File:Pleating Jig Final (SCH).jpeg|thumb]]\n\n'''Videos on how to make this mask & how to make the Jig for pleating this mask:''' Videos by YouTube user: bend photo; Assembled jig diagram: Beth H.\n\n[https://i.ibb.co/s2mnnCP/surgical-mask-jig-temlplate.jpg Image]\n\n{{Video\n| video = L19YTzgEZ7I\n}}\n\n{{Video\n| video = NeBvTcsSB0k\n}}\n\n== Printable Pleating Jig Pattern ==\n\n[[File:Fabric 9x8 Mask StCH JigTemplate.pdf|300px]]\n\nA complete printable pattern file was not able to be located, so [[User:M.Kreiger]] used the open-source information from the videos above & the diagram to create a printable jig pattern and to share here for widespread use. Printable jig pattern located here\n\n== Printable 1/2\" Bias Tape Jig Pattern ==\n\n[[File:Paper Bias Tape Maker Pattern - Half Inch.pdf|300px|Paper pattern for half-inch bias tape maker]]\n\nA paper alternative to the 3D printed bias tape maker. Printable pattern for half-inch bias tape jig\n1-APR-2020: Other Printable Jig Patterns are in progress.\n\n== External links ==\n\n* [https://anest.ufl.edu/clinical-divisions/alternative-n95-mask-production COVID-19 Mask Alternative. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology.]\n\n[[Appropriate technology resources for COVID-19 crisis]]\n\n{{Page data}}\n\n[[Category:Flu pandemic]]\n[[Category:COVID-19]]"}