Services/Studio/Design & Tech Pack

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Design and tech pack.

From a reference, a sketch, or a paragraph, to a fully-specified piece your atelier can sew. Pattern, fabric, hardware, fit, finish. The tech pack belongs to you when we're done, whether you proceed to production with us or not.

Floor price per style

$2,500scales with complexity

Reorders carry no design fee. The tech pack is yours forever.

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Pattern · By hand

What you actually get

A working document, not a mood board.

A real tech pack is the difference between "we'll figure it out at the sample stage" and a piece that arrives looking exactly like the photograph. Ours runs about twenty pages per style and contains everything your atelier needs to cut the piece without calling us first.

If you have done this before and you have a tech pack you already trust, we can skip this step entirely and quote you production directly. Most clients don't, and most of the projects that go wrong elsewhere went wrong here.

Pattern drafting.

Drafted by hand from a body block, sized to your spec, graded across your size range. The pattern is yours.

Fabric specification.

Mill-sourced fabric with composition, weight, hand, drape, and finish notes. Pass-through pricing on the cloth.

Hardware sourcing.

Buttons, zippers, snaps, hooks, drawcords. Real components, sourced and specified.

Fit specification.

Measurement points, ease, length, tolerances. Annotated technical flat with construction notes.

Bill of materials.

Costed line-by-line. You see what the fabric and hardware cost, what the labor costs, and what the markup is.

Brief and research.

You send what you have, sketches, photographs, a paragraph about the customer. We respond with a working draft of the piece, fabric and hardware suggestions, and a fit philosophy. We expect at least one round of back-and-forth before drafting begins.

3 to 4 business days

Pattern and spec.

The pattern is drafted by hand. Fabric samples are ordered from the mills we've chosen. Hardware is sourced. We annotate every construction-critical decision so the tech pack is readable by any atelier.

7 to 10 business days

Review and sign-off.

You receive the full tech pack, the pattern, and the costed bill of materials. We talk through it. Any changes get made and re-issued. Once signed off, the tech pack is yours, and we can move straight into sampling.

2 to 3 business days

What gets delivered.

At the end of the design phase

A working pattern.

Graded across your size range, in PDF and physical paper form.

A full tech pack.

About twenty pages per style. Annotated, dimensioned, costed.

Fabric samples.

Physical swatches from the mills, posted to you.

Hardware samples.

Buttons, zippers, snaps, in your colorway.

Bill of materials.

Costed line-by-line. You see exactly what the piece will cost.

Production quote.

For the run size you've specified. Fixed for 30 days.

Common questions.

What if I cancel after design?

The tech pack and the pattern are yours. We don't hold either hostage. Many of the brands we've designed for proceeded to production elsewhere; that's their call, and the work we did has value for them either way.

Can I bring my own tech pack?

Yes. If you've already worked through this phase with another studio, we'll review your tech pack for production-readiness and quote you sampling and production directly. Skip the design fee.

How specific can the spec get?

As specific as you need. We've drafted tech packs that called out specific thread brands, specific bobbin weights, and which side of the seam the operator should overlock. The tech pack is the contract; the more it says, the less ambiguity there is when production starts.

What if I don't know what fabric I want?

Most clients don't, when they start. Part of our job is to translate the way you described how you want the piece to feel into a specific fabric specification from a specific mill. We do this many times a year and we're good at it.