Cut and Sew Clothing Manufacturer

Cut and sew means the garment is made from scratch: fabric is cut into pattern pieces and those pieces are sewn together to your specification, rather than a finished blank being bought and decorated. It gives you control of the fit, the fabric, the weight, the rib, the label and every construction detail, and it produces a garment nobody else can buy. It is how brands are built; blank decoration is how event shirts are made. On our floor in Narayanganj the work runs in a fixed order. The pattern is built and graded across sizes, a fit sample is made and corrected, then a pre-production sample is sewn in the real fabric and trims and sealed on your sign-off. Bulk is cut and sewn against that sealed sample, and Walter Meyer's QC team measures the finished run against it before anything ships. The trade-off is a real minimum, because fabric is knitted and dyed in lots.

Because of fabric, not sewing. Knit fabric is produced on circular machines in minimum runs and dyed in lots, and roughly a hundred and fifty pieces per style and colour is where a lot stops being a sample and becomes production. Services offering 25 or 30 pieces are almost always decorating blanks, where the fabric was made in someone else's lot. Sizes split freely inside our hundred and fifty; colours do not, because each colour is its own lot. So one style in three colours is 450 pieces: three lots, three cutting runs and three of every trim, and it prices as three runs rather than one. The size split is yours to set: a hundred and fifty pieces can follow whatever proportions your customers actually buy, and adding a size to the run does not start a new lot. Our MOQ calculator shows how a range adds up, and the low-MOQ page works through the arithmetic.

Usually yes, per piece: printing on a blank is the cheaper way to test a design, and cut and sew costs more because every part of the garment is made for you. Fabric is bought by the kilo and is most of the cost, so a 400 GSM fleece hoodie carries far more cloth than a 160 GSM jersey tee. Each seam is a sewing operation with a time, trims such as zips, drawcords and woven labels carry their own supplier minimums, and each colour is its own dye lot. Pattern work, grading and the two samples are one-off costs, the same money at 150 pieces as at 1,000, so the same design costs less per piece at 500 than at 150. Our quotes are DDP, delivered to your door with freight and duty included, so a lower FOB figure from a blank decorator is not a like-for-like number. The quote guide shows how to line the two up.

Cut and sew describes how a garment is made, from your pattern out of rolls of fabric; private label describes whose name is in it, which is yours. The two are independent of each other. Most private-label programmes at small brands are blank garments relabelled, which is private label without cut and sew: the fit, fabric and price were fixed by the blank's maker, and a competitor can order the same garment with a different label inside. What we do is both at once. The garment is cut and sewn to your specification on our floor, then finished with your own labels and tags. When you compare quotes, ask which of the two a supplier means, because a relabelled blank and a garment cut from your pattern are made and priced very differently. Labels, hang tags and packaging are covered on our private label clothing page, and the guide to private label, white label and OEM defines the wider terms.

Ask for what any real factory can give and an agent cannot: the street address, Plot-A-132, Road No. 02, BSCIC Industrial Area, Panchabati, Narayanganj 1420; our BKMEA membership; the registration numbers on our certifications page; and a live video call from the sewing floor during a working shift. Those numbers include our company registration, P-56588/2026, and an Export Registration Certificate, so our export papers carry our own name. A cut-and-sew factory can name every step it does itself; an agent names the factory it uses. Here is our split: cutting, sewing, sampling, decoration and QC happen in our building, while yarn, knitting and dyeing are specified, booked and inspected at partner mills in the same industrial cluster. We do not call those mills ours. The factory profile shows the sewing floor, and pre-arranged visits are welcome.

No. A tech pack is welcome and speeds things up, but a sketch, a reference garment you like and a paragraph about the customer are enough for us to build the pattern and the tech pack with you. What changes with cut and sew is that every choice a blank would have made for you now needs an answer: the fabric family and weight, the neck rib, the seams, the pockets and trims, the label placement and the size range. Expect questions on each while we quote, because each one is a line in the pattern or the price: a raglan sleeve, a side-seam pocket or a contrast binding adds minutes on the line. We then sample it, and bulk is made against the sealed pre-production sample. If you prefer to arrive prepared, the free tech pack template shows what a complete brief contains, and the sampling guide explains each step.

No. Our floor cuts and sews knitwear: jersey, French terry, fleece, piqué, rib and interlock garments. Woven pieces such as denim, jackets and shirting are sourced through our sister buying house, CMB Sourcing Ltd, in the same industrial area, as a separate order with its own contract. Woven cloth is cut and sewn too, but it does not stretch, so its patterns, seams and machines belong to a different trade from the overlock and coverstitch work on a knit line. CMB is a separate company from Collective Studio Ltd and sources each woven piece through specialist factories. Sweaters and cardigans sit outside cut and sew altogether: each panel is knitted to its final shape on a flat-bed machine and linked, with no cutting stage, so vetted partner units make them only on a limited basis, quoted separately; ask first. Send us the whole range and we route each part to the right floor; we do not pretend to make what we do not.

Cut and sew runs in five stages: the brief, the pattern, the samples, bulk cutting and sewing, then inspection against a sealed sample. It starts with a brief, ideally a tech pack, though a sketch, a reference garment and a paragraph are enough to begin, and we build the pattern and tech pack with you. From the pattern comes a fit sample, which is corrected, then a pre-production sample in the real fabric and trims, which you sign off and we seal. For bulk, the knitted fabric is shade-checked against the approved lab dip, cut into pattern pieces from the roll and sewn on the line, with any printing or embroidery designed in rather than added on afterwards. Finished garments are measured against the sealed sample before they are packed. At Collective Studio the minimum is 150 pieces per style and colour, sampling takes about 10 days, and production takes 40 to 50 days after you approve the sample.