From pattern to finished garment
Cut & Sew Apparel Manufacturing
Garments made from flat fabric to your pattern — not blanks with a print on them. This is where a brand stops looking like everyone else's.
- 50
- Piece minimum
- 10–14
- Working days
- Your
- Pattern and grading
- 3rd
- Generation making it
Why cut and sew, and when not to
Cut and sew means the garment is made from fabric to your pattern: marker, cutting, stitching, finishing. Nothing is bought in ready-made. It gives you control over fit, fabric, weight, construction and detail that decoration on a blank simply cannot.
It is not always the right answer. If you need 60 tees with a chest print by the end of the month, a good blank with proper decoration will serve you better and cost less. Cut and sew earns its place when the fit is part of the product, when you need a fabric nobody else is using, or when you are building something you intend to reorder for years.
We will say which one your project actually needs. Talking a customer out of cut and sew is a shorter conversation than explaining a disappointing sample.
The pattern is the product
Two brands can use the same fabric and the same factory and produce entirely different garments. The difference is the pattern, the grading and the finishing — which is exactly the part that gets skipped when a garment is bought in and relabelled.
How cut and sew runs
Specification
Your tech pack, or a reference garment and measurements we work from together. We agree fabric, weight, construction and trims before anything is cut.
Pattern and grading
Your pattern, or one developed here. Grading is set to your market, not to a generic size run.
Sample
A full sample to confirm fit, fabric handle and finishing. Expect one or two rounds. This stage decides whether the bulk is right.
Marker and cutting
Fabric laid up and cut to the approved marker, with cutting efficiency affecting your final cost.
Stitching and finishing
Assembly, decoration where specified, then trimming, pressing and quality check.
Labelling and packing
Your labels, your packaging, packed for your channel.
Cut and sew questions
- What do you need from me to start?
- Ideally a tech pack with measurements, construction notes and a fabric target. If you do not have one, send a reference garment and tell us what you would change about it — that is enough to begin.
- How many samples will we go through?
- Usually one or two. More than that generally means the original specification was unclear, which is why we spend time on it before cutting.
- Is cut and sew more expensive?
- Per piece, yes, compared with decorating a blank. Whether it is worth it depends on what you are building. We will quote both so you can see the actual difference rather than guess at it.
- Can you source the fabric?
- Yes — fabric sourcing is part of what we do, including matching a fabric from a garment you send us.
- What is the realistic lead time?
- 10–14 working days for bulk once the sample is approved. Sampling and fabric sourcing happen before that and depend on how settled the specification is.
Tell us what you want made
Send the garment, quantity, colours and your deadline. If the specification is still rough, say what you are trying to achieve and we will propose options.
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