Cut and Sew Manufacturer

Cut and sew manufacturing means the garment is made from the fabric up. A pattern is made for your design and graded into your sizes, the fabric is cut to it, and the pieces are sewn together with your trims and labels. The alternative is decorating blanks: buying ready-made t-shirts or hoodies and adding a print or embroidery.

With cut and sew you choose the fit, the fabric and its weight, the colour, the details and the labels. That is what lets a brand stand apart, and what makes a fit repeatable from one season to the next.

Each product page explains the styles, fabrics and details you can specify:

• Tops: t-shirts, hoodies and sweatshirts and tank tops.
• Bottoms: joggers, pants, jeans, shorts and skirts.
• Outerwear and sets: jackets and tracksuits.
• Active and swim: sportswear, leggings and swimwear.
• Accessories: hats.

1. Your brief. A tech pack, or a reference garment and sketches, with sizes and quantities.
2. Pattern and grading. A pattern is made for the base size and graded into the rest of your size range.
3. Fabric and trims. Fabric, thread, zips, labels and packaging are sourced to your specification.
4. Sample. A sample is made in 2–3 weeks so you can check fit, fabric and finish, and send comments.
5. Cutting. Once the sample is approved, the pattern pieces are laid out on the fabric to use it efficiently and cut, by hand or on an automated cutting table.
6. Sewing. The pieces are assembled on lockstitch, overlock and coverstitch machines, and branding is added.
7. Finishing and packing. Garments are washed if the spec calls for it, pressed, labelled, checked, folded and packed.
8. Delivery. The bulk order usually arrives 3–4 weeks from the order date, shipping included.

• A tech pack with flat sketches, measurements and the bill of materials. Our tech pack guide includes a free template.
• Or a reference garment whose fit you want to match, with notes on what to change.
• The fabric: composition and weight, for example 100% cotton French terry at 350 GSM. See what GSM means.
• Colours as Pantone references, and branding with the method you have in mind; our guides compare embroidery and screen printing and screen printing and DTG.
• Quantities per style and colour, split by size.
• Labels and packaging: neck label, care label, hangtags and polybags.
• Your target date and the country we deliver to.

• Fabric: the fibre, weight and any custom colour, and how much fabric the pattern uses.
• Construction: the number of panels, pockets, zips and seams, and how much sewing time they take.
• Trims and labels: zips, drawcords, woven labels, hangtags and packaging.
• Decoration: the print or embroidery method, its size and the number of colours.
• Quantity: setup costs are spread across more pieces on bigger runs. Our MOQ guide shows how.
• Where it is made: labour and freight costs differ by country, and so does the duty into your market.

Read how our pricing works for more on each of these. Your quote states the minimum, the price per piece, the production country and the timeline.

We produce through partner factories in the US, the UK, Pakistan and China, and choose the location that suits your product, quantity and timeline. The production country affects the duty you pay when the clothing arrives: for example, a garment made in the UK can enter the EU at 0% if it meets the rules of origin, while the same garment made in China pays 12%.

Our guides for the US, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand list the duty by production country.