What is cut and sew?
Cut and sew means the garment is made from fabric — cut to a pattern and sewn — rather than bought as a finished blank and decorated. It is what a factory does and a print shop cannot: your fit, your fabric, your construction, your colour, built from the roll up.
Why it matters
A decorated blank is somebody else's garment with your print on it. A cut-and-sew garment is yours. It is how a brand gets a boxy fit, a specific fleece weight, a lined hood or a custom colour that no catalogue offers.
On our floor
Fabric in, relaxed, marked, cut, decorated flat, sewn, labelled, inspected, packed — all in our unit in Lahore. From 50 pieces per style; 10–14 working days after sample approval.
Common questions
- What is the minimum for cut and sew?
- 50 pieces per style, 30 per stock colour; a colour of your own from a 300-piece dye lot.
- Do I need a tech pack?
- It helps; a reference garment works too. We build the specification with you.
- How long does cut and sew take?
- 10–14 working days from approved sample; sampling around two weeks before that.
- Cut and sew or decorated blank?
- Blank for a first order or simple merch; cut and sew when the garment itself needs to be yours.
Related terms
tech pack
A tech pack — technical package — is the document that specifies one garment completely: flat sketches, bill of materials, measurements per…
pattern
A pattern is the set of flat shaped pieces a garment is cut from — front, back, sleeves, hood, pocket, cuff and so on — drafted for the…
size grading
Size grading is the process of scaling a base pattern — usually the medium — up and down to every other size by set increments for each…
marker
A marker is the plan for laying out every pattern piece — for every size in the order — across the width of the fabric so that the least…
Where this applies
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