How We Work
Specification first, always
Most uniform orders go wrong at the handover between what was discussed and what was made. Our process exists to close that gap — every stage produces something physical you can approve.
How We Work
From brief to delivery
Every stage produces something you can hold or sign off. Nothing goes to bulk production on a verbal description.
- 01
Brief & requirement
Tell us the garment, the quantity and the deadline.
We start from what your team actually does. A warehouse crew, a front-of-house team and a nursery class need three different garments even when they all say "polo shirt". We work through the roles, the environment, the wash cycle and the branding before anyone talks about price.
You receive
A written requirement we both agree on
- 02
Fabric & specification
Weave, blend, GSM and colour, agreed in writing.
We put forward fabric options against the requirement and send physical swatches where it matters. The specification names the cloth, the weight in GSM, the colour reference, the seam construction and the branding placement. Nothing goes to cutting on a verbal description.
You receive
Swatches plus a written spec sheet
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Sampling & fit
A physical sample before a single bulk piece is cut.
We produce a sample garment to the agreed spec. You see the real cloth, the real stitching and the real branding, and you can put it on a person. Fit changes at this stage cost nothing. Fit changes after bulk cutting cost everything.
You receive
Approved sample and a signed-off size set
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Branding approval
Embroidery digitised and stitched out for sign-off.
Your logo is digitised for embroidery or prepared for print, then produced as a physical stitch-out or test print. You approve the actual thread colours and scale rather than a screen mock-up, because thread never matches a monitor.
You receive
Approved stitch-out or print proof
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Bulk production
Cut, stitched and finished to the approved specification.
Bulk runs against the signed specification, with the approved sample on the floor as the reference. Checks happen during the run rather than only at the end, so a drift in a seam or a shade is caught while it is still fixable.
You receive
Production against a fixed reference
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Finishing & delivery
Pressed, sized, packed and labelled to your list.
Garments are finished, sized-checked and packed the way you need to distribute them — by individual name, by department, by size, or in bulk cartons. We keep your specification on file so a reorder repeats it exactly.
You receive
Packed to your distribution list
Capability
What happens under one roof
Pattern to packing. Keeping these stages together is what lets us hold a specification across a whole run.
Pattern & grading
Patterns cut in-house and graded across the full size run, so the smallest and largest garments in an order are proportioned correctly rather than scaled.
Cutting
Layered cutting against the approved marker, keeping every piece in a run from the same cloth lot wherever the quantity allows.
Stitching
Line production with construction matched to the garment — lock stitch, overlock and bar-tack applied where each belongs, not uniformly.
Embroidery & print
Logo digitising, multi-head embroidery, screen printing and DTF transfer, all referenced to an approved physical proof.
Quality checking
Checks during the run and at finishing — measurement against spec, seam integrity, shade consistency and branding placement.
Finishing & packing
Pressing, sizing, tagging and packing to your distribution structure, whether that is per person, per department or bulk.
Ordering
Common questions
More detail on how orders, timelines and reorders work.
It varies by garment and by how much customisation is involved — a plain stock-colour polo behaves very differently from a custom-dyed coverall with embroidered branding. Send us the requirement and we will tell you the realistic minimum for that specific job rather than quoting a blanket number.
It depends on the garment, the quantity, the customisation and the time of year — pre-session school orders are the busiest period by a wide margin. We give you a schedule against your specific order once the specification is agreed, and we would rather give you an honest date than an optimistic one.
Yes, and we recommend it. Sampling is a formal stage in our process: you get a physical garment in the real cloth with the real branding before any bulk cloth is cut. Changes at sample stage are cheap; changes after bulk cutting are not.
Our work is bulk manufacturing for organisations — schools, factories, hospitals, hotels and corporate teams. If you need a handful of pieces, talk to us anyway and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right supplier for that job.
We keep your approved specification, size list and digitised branding on file. A reorder references that record, so the second batch matches the first rather than being re-specified from scratch.
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