| Deciding factor | Made-up garment | Cloth supplied for your own sewing |
|---|---|---|
| Who controls lot matching | we keep one lot across a style's panels | you choose and match rolls yourself |
| Minimum order | a style can start from a sample run | sold by the metre or by the roll |
| Sizing and grading | cut to your chart, graded here | your cutting room decides everything |
| What the lead time is made of | pattern, sampling, sewing, finishing | cloth availability and your own queue |
| Who eats cutting waste | allowance is priced into the piece | your marker efficiency is yours |
| Labelling | your label sewn in, or unlabelled | nothing sewn in by us |
| Where responsibility stops | through sewing and finishing of the piece | at fabric inspection on your side |
Decision rule
Take the garment when the run is short, when the style has to keep one mud face across every panel, or when you have no cutting room that can hold that rule. Take the cloth when you already grade and sew to your own tolerance and want to buy the roll once and decide later. Sending us your cloth and asking only for the making-up is the third path, and it is priced as making-up only.
All figures on this page are illustrative sample values, not measured specifications.
If I send you my cloth, who carries cutting faults?
We mark the faulted area and stop before cutting it, then ask you which panel to sacrifice. Gambiered cloth is lot-limited, so quietly cutting around a fault moves the mismatch into the finished garment instead of removing it.
Can a small label order one style?
Yes, and that is the common shape of the first order: one style, a sample size run, existing sample pieces sent singly so the buyer can check the seam and the face before committing. The next order is where grading to a full chart happens.