With just the push of a button, the Bias Tape Maker creates customized bias and quilting binding tapes. It's an incredibly simple and useful tool for personalizing bias tape to ensure exact matches to garments and other projects. Utilize your excess fabric and make just as much as needed! This Bias Tape Maker irons the fabric during the process, with a heating plate cover to protect your fingers. There are various heat settings for different fabrics including cotton, silk and light weight wool. It features an auto shutoff setting, so after 10 minutes without use it will switch off. To create single-fold bias tape, you will need to multiply your desired width by two. For double fold bias tape, multiple your desired width by four. For example: To create half inch wide single fold bias tape, you will need to cut 1" wide strips (½ x 2 = 1). To create half inch wide double fold bias tape, you will need to cut 2 inch wide strips (½ x 4 = 2).