Abstract: A sheet material primarily fabric is cut by providing a substantially cylindrical wire defining a cutting line lying between a top roller and a bottom roller mounted on a carriage arranged to run along the wire with the wire located in a nip of the rollers. The fabric is laid over the wire on a support surface and the carriage is driven along the wire so that the peripheral surface of the top roller applies pressure on the fabric between the roller surface and the wire. The fabric is thus compressed between the top roller surface and the wire in a pinching action which causes the wire to engage into and effect cutting of the fabric along the cutting line. The two rollers rotate by their engagement with the fabric and wire and smoothly roll over the fabric without bunching.