What is the minimum/maximum order quantity?
Depending on the type of garment we advise for a minimum quantity of just 100psc per style.
Before production we always advise to make a pre-production sample.
You can place an order for a smaller quantity for an additional cost.
Having 2 large factories and 3 small production facilities ensure we can also work with large orders up to hundreds of thousands whilst maintaining excellent lead-time.
Is the quote free?
Yes, Absolutely free.
I only have a design / sketch ?
We can produce a sample or full run with just a design.
Tech pack development, fitting sample, toile and sales sample will be produced upon your request in the process before starting full scale design manufacturing.
I already have a sample made, can you work with that?
Absolutely! Send us your sample and we will manufacture the garment.
We can also create a technical pack for the garment and perform size grading.
How it works – Production by stages:
If you are new to apparel production or have never dealt with a clothing manufacturer like Sewport before, please read this information as it will help you understand how garment production usually works.
But please do keep in mind, this is just an example.
Knowing a bit more about the stages of apparel production will make our communication much smoother:
- It all starts with your sketch, drawing, design or maybe a garment that you own but would like to modify with an idea in mind.
- Please think about what fabric, lining, zips or trims you plan to use for your style. We can help source fabric for you in most cases but it is always good to have a clear idea of what fabric you are going for.
- Develop more technical information like a spec sheet or a tech pack for the garment’s style, size preferences/chart. This information will help your clothing manufacturer better understand how you want your style to look after its completed.
- Decide on the the colour and type of fabric, size variations you plan for your garment and also quantities for of the style (per colour and size) before you go in to production. Order quantities will have an impact on manufacturing costs so we recommend 100psc per style for small runs at least.
- Now that we have more details you probably want to see a sample made and have a look at a completed garment in real life. Before this is possible a clothing manufacturer like Sewport needs to make patterns for the style you chose. Patterns can be paper based or digital. Our patterns cutters work with almost any format. We can create patterns for you based on designs, sketches or samples. Patterns are basically block parts of clothes that are used to cut out specific pieces of fabric in certain shapes, that when sewn together will make up a complete garment. Its very important to get these patterns right to achieve a great looking style once manufactured!
- Now that patterns are cut, we can sew a sample of the chosen style (calico, toile, production sample). Sample making is one of the most important stages as you would probably like to see that particular piece of clothing you designed in real life before it goes to bulk production.
- Once the sample is made and you see that everything fits and sits correctly, the fabric is right and the design looks good you would probably like to have this garment manufactured in various sizes.This is when we take the patterns made before and grade them to more sizes according to your order – pattern grading.
- Assuming all the fabric sourced and arrived we are ready to start manufacturing your clothes in the quantity and size variety you require.Note that quantity per style and size impacts costs so we recommend for a minimum of 50pcs per style.
- We want to make best use of fabric and utilise as much as possible – this is where marker making comes in. This is the process of positioning your patterns on the fabric in such a layout that will allow us to cut it in a way that allows reducing waste. This process is often computer aided and is done by highly skilled professionals.
- Now comes the cutting of the fabric itself. It is done using industrial machinery or plotters (for bulk orders). Note that different fabrics need to be cut separately.
- With all the fabric cut we are ready to sew everything together and attach all the trims. When sewing different coloured fabric styles threads also need to correspond. We use different coloured threads for each type of fabric and machinery needs to be readjusted to work with the specific type of fabric smoothly. This is why low order quantities with lots of colour variations require more time and have a higher cost. Readjusting machinery and changing threads and all related preparations require manual tweaks.
- Attaching labels (brand, size, care) is usually done while the garment is still in production. This is why its important to have all labels before we launch production of your clothing line.
- After completion each item is thoroughly inspected by quality control and neatly packed before we ship it out to you.
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If you want more specific information on clothing manufacturing you can always ask Sewport or do a bit of research on the web using the terms mentioned above. Surely you can find lots of useful information on clothing manufacturing theme related websites.