Category Manufacturing

A size chart is a set of measurements, not a set of labels. Converting one market’s chart for another means rebuilding those measurements, and it cannot be done letter to letter: the same letter sits at a different point on…

A petite size is not the size below, and a tall size is not the size above. Both keep the circumference grade and move the length axis only, so the same body is served by a second set of points,…

The instinct is to treat an extended size as the approved fit, enlarged. In knitwear that assumption fails late, after the fabric is cut. This page covers where a grade breaks first, which points carry a top and which points…

A knitwear style usually passes four sample stages: proto, fit sample, size set and PP sample. Each one fixes a different thing, and each is signed by a different person. A proto proves the style can be built, a fit…

No single blend is best. The composition line is a trade between hand feel, dimensional stability, moisture behaviour and stretch recovery, and the right answer is the one that matches how the garment is washed and worn, not the highest…

A repeat order stays identical when the second run is built from the same three references as the first: the same pattern file at the same version, the same sealed sample, and the same written specification. Colour is the exception.…

Choose print when the artwork is flat, wide and colour-led; choose embroidery when the mark is small, textural and has to survive industrial washing. The deciding variable is not taste but fabric: a raised fleece back, a piqué face, a…

A bulk knitwear order is packed in three layers, and each layer is fixed by a different decision: the polybag by your retail requirement, the inner grouping by colour and size, and the carton by a ratio both sides sign…

Wholesale buys a finished product someone else designed — their pattern, their colours, their packing, available now — so you are buying availability and turnover. Private label keeps that pattern and puts your woven label, care label, hangtag, barcode and…

You are buying one of two different things. A blank hoodie is built on a block the factory already runs, stopped before decoration. Cut and sew is a pattern made for you first, then sewn. The first buys speed and…