Everything from first pattern to packed boxes.
You can start at any point. Plenty of brands come to us with a finished pattern and only need the production run.
Patternmaking
The pattern decides everything that happens after it. A bad pattern cannot be sewn out of trouble, so we take the time here.
- First pattern from a sketch paper and digital
- Copying a garment you send us rub off
- Corrections after a fit per round
- Digitizing TK system
- Grading TK size range
- Marker and fabric yield per style
- Tech pack build on request
Samples
Samples are sewn on the same machines that will sew your run. A sample made somewhere else is only a guess at what you will get.
- Muslin mockup when fabric is costly
- First sample in your fabric included
- Fit rounds TK included
- Pre production sample you sign off
- Sealed sample kept on the floor
- Turnaround TK working days
Cutting
Fabric is relaxed before it is spread. Skip that step and a knit shrinks on the table, so every panel after the first comes out short.
- Fabric relaxation before spreading
- Spreading TK max ply
- Cutting TK method
- Bundling and ticketing by size and colour
- Shrinkage testing on request
Sewing
Production managers read this list more closely than anything else on the site, so keep it honest and keep it current.
- Single needle lockstitch TK heads
- Overlock and serger TK heads
- Coverstitch TK heads
- Bartack TK
- Buttonhole and button sew TK
- Blindstitch TK
- Snaps and grommets TK
Finishing and packing
Every unit is measured against the sealed sample, because that is the garment everybody in the room already agreed on.
- Trim and clean every unit
- Press TK equipment
- Quality check against sealed sample
- Care and content labels applied
- Hangtags applied
- Polybag and carton to your spec
- Direct to retail packing on request
Troubleshooting
Some orders reach us after going wrong somewhere else. If a previous manufacturer left you with damaged or unfinished garments, we repair them on our floor and check every unit before it goes back out.
- Repairs to damaged garments every unit
- Finishing incomplete runs from any stage
- Quality checking piece by piece
- Rework of a full run a few pieces or thousands
- Made at another factory first not a problem