Why charge for samples?
High-Quality Materials
Each sample is crafted using the same premium fabrics, techniques, and attention to detail as our full production runs. Charging for samples allows us to maintain these high standards.
Custom Design Efforts
Our samples are tailored to your specifications, from fabric selection to sizing and styling. This level of customization requires time, effort, and resources from our design and production teams.
Fair Business Practices
Charging for samples ensures a fair and transparent process for both parties. It helps cover production costs and allows us to prioritize serious inquiries and partnerships.
Investment in Partnership
A sample is more than just a product—it's the first step in building a long-term relationship. By investing in a sample, you’re investing in a partnership where quality and reliability come first.
Reimbursement on Orders
To show our commitment, we often offer reimbursement or discounts on sample costs when you place a bulk order, ensuring your investment in samples pays off as part of our collaboration.
Standard sample fee according to the current market:
Sample Service
How to Get Your Sample
Pre-Production
1. Design garment
The first assignment is for the brand to come up with its owndesigns for the products. if you want to develop your ownde-signs, it's better to do some inspiration shopping or give a lookthrough recent fashion collections to have some ideas aboutthe latest trends and consumer favorites. Next, get somepaper and a pen to start sketching out your ideas. You mightalso want to hire a professional grophic artist to help executeyour vision better.
2. Source fabric and trims
When you are finished with your design, you can startchoosing the fabric and trims needed to bring your garment tolife. Based on the design and requirements of the product.you will move to the fabric and material sourcing stage
Experts in the clothing manufacturing industry will have a listof textile suppliers that can provide a diverse range ofmaterials ready. Once you are sure with your selection offabrics, you may need to get an FDS. FDS stands for a FabricData Sheet, in which important details about your materiolsare specified so that the clothing producer can have a clearidea of your garment components. Some of the essentialinformation includes fabric name, fiber content, fabric weaveor knit type. or yam size.
3.make patterns
After that, it's time to make a pattern, or garment forms, whichwill be necessary for fabric cutting. This is when the design istaken apart into 2D pieces. Small local brands might be ac-customed to making the pattern by hand on paper: nonethe-less, it can prove to be a completely tiring and time- consum-ing process. You can opt for a local sample maker- howeverkeep in mind that they are quite expensive.
A much cheaper alternative is to work with an experiencedclothing manufacturer that can produce your patterns into afile on your laptop. Yes, patterns can now be digitized. Thespecialist takes the paper form and lays it on the digitizerwhere the paper pattern is transferred into their own software.This would lead to a quicker solution with high accuracyhigh-quality pattem, and reasonable price.
4. Print out patterns
Next, the patterns are laid out in a specific order and printedout on the plotter using an automated cutting system. Thisstep is quickly done by the software and the specializedcutting equipment. The pattems are ready for the sampledevelopment stage.
5.Develop sample
Cutting
Samples are essential because they are the prototype ofyour garment creation. After the pattems are laid out andfabrics are marked comes the cutting operation.
This is oneof the most pivotal steps since once the fabric has been cut,you cannot repair it when serious flaws pop up. Besides, thefabric is the most costly item in the clothing productionprocess.
That's why clothing manufacturers are in charge ofensuring minimum material wastage without risking anydefects.
In clothing manufacturina facilities. the same fabric articlesare layered on top of each other and cut in bulk. There areseveral types of cutting equipment manual cutting machinessuch as scissors, semi-auto cutting machines, fully automaticcutting machines such as laser cutting machines.
Screenprint and embroidery
If you want to add logos and other designs to clothes andother textiles, screen printing and embroidery are your twoprimary options.Embroidery is the process of transforminggraphic arts into a needle and thread on the fabric. Screenprinting is when the specialist presses the graphics on thetextile using paint-based ink and then dries it out. Embroiderycreates a 3D look that makes the emblem stand out.However, you will not see embroidery on complex designs asrecreating intricate patterns on the surface is quiteburdensome with needles and threads. Screen printing is theperfect selection to put art, logos, etc, on a range of productssuch as T-shirts, Hoodies, or uniforms by the latest printingtechnologies.
Assembling
After the sewing machine is adjusted and tested carefully, thefabric pieces are finally laid out and sewn together. At last,you start to see your design coming to life. Once the samplesare completed, the specialist will make the final touchesbefore sending them to grading and future bulk production.
6.Grade patterns
Pattern grading is the process of using grading increments ora size specification sheet to turn the sample size patterns intoadditional sizes.Remember that grading only makes a shapelarger/smaller and is not for changing the shape.
Often the sample is made in small or medium size.Increaseand decrease the sizes so that it can cover all your target cus.tomers. For example, it is vital that you take your size rangeinto consideration if you are building a brand for plus-sizedconsumers or your audience varies in size a lot (such as for
Why Choose Us for Your Samples?
Quality control
Your wholesale clothing manufacturer will replicate all the garment-making processes on the production line. Sewing machine operators will receive a pile of cut fabric and only sew one portion of the clothing item before passing it down to the next operator. A specialist will perform quality control at the end of the sewing line to assure that the items are properly assembled, and defects are found in a timely manner. If necessary, the garment can be returned to the sewing stations to be taken apart for any fixing or mending. Your company also has some time to review the garments and do quality assurance to see if they are up to your requirements.
Fusing and pressing
Fusing gives support and stabilizes areas of a panel ready to be attached to a garment. This is used for reinforcement and helps the fabric avoid stretching. Pressing means ironing the garment so as to put the final seal on your product. Typical machinery used in pressing and finishing is hand irons, scissors press, steam dolly, and carousel machines. First, the fabric is relaxed by the steam and heat coming from the irons. Next, the fibers are set into their positions by applying enough pressure. The garment is then dried and cooled for the fabric to return to its normal state. To do this, the employees will use a vacuum to suction out all the spare water in the cloth.
Spot cleaning and laundry
Besides identifying errors, workers doing quality control also need to look for any spot or stain on the garment that may have occurred during the cutting and sewing operations. They will then mark the spots with a sticker and send the flawed garments to a spot-cleaning station where the stains are treated using steam, hot water, or some type of stain remover that will not damage the intricate work. Your company may also ask for all garments to be laundered after assembly. This can be done on-site if the factory is facilitated with at least 3 types of equipment: washers, spinners, and dryers. Sometimes, however, manufacturers may work with a third-party contractor to have them launder the finished garments.
Packaging and shipping
In the final step of clothing manufacture, the garments are sized, folded, tagged, and packaged. You as a recipient can make requests on the type of bags, boxes, or hangers to use, and how many pieces to put in a box, etc. You need to pay extra attention to the packaging terms in your contracts because a specific type of clothing item requests particularities in the packing stage. For instance, hanging garments like dresses and skirts should be carefully packaged and bagged; otherwise, they would end up wrinkly.
