If you want your fashion brand to gain international recognition, being active on Facebook is a must. However, you should be very careful when allocating marketing funds for Facebook ads; the statistics clearly show that paying money to sell your brand on this platform just won't be as effe...
Designers must remember that when they order a full unit (including fabric, trims and production), the supplier cannot possibly hold all fabrics and trims in stock. They have to purchase this, and therefore, will have minimums from the suppliers they purchase from. ...
The ½” duckbill protects the under fabric when you are trimming around an appliqué or are trimming the stabiliser from the back of an embroidery. The lower blade is placed flat on top of the fabric so that the excess fabric can be cut away. If you are a dressmaker, then they are ...
I know that doing that devalues my work, and everyone else's around me. So I try and sell items that I know I can makequickly or cheaply, but that people are still willing to pay a decent price for. I do ‘pay' myself for my time. I charge postage ...
I've been sewing all my life. I've also been fortunate enough to have lived in quite a few different countries and traveled a lot. So as you can imagine, I've seen a lot of fabric shops in my day. All that being said, nothing could have prepared me for what I discovered in Flor...
Beyond the Nest was one of those purses that I secretly hoped wouldn’t sell–but it did. I love this bag! It is my own Jenny pattern design, created from a fur/feathery fabric from Michael Levine. The band is vintage crushed velour and I placed a beautiful brooch from Trims on Wheels...
Now imagine you unpick all the seams from this T-shirt and put the pieces of fabric on the table. You have 4 pieces of a specific shape. The shapes are cut from fabric using the template shapes created by a pattern cutter. These are required for production to be consecutive so that ...
To get a high quality finish that caters to your audience, you will have to consider all options, even those that stray slightly from the initial design. Fabric should be chosen based on a blend of availability, continuity and cost to bring it in line with your brand goals. To achieve ...
they don't use up anywhere near as much fabric as pants. And I need three pairs because I plan to live in these leggings – I've worn nothing else for the last three days and I've been super comfortable around the house yet felt good to pop out to the shops too and pick up my...
If you plan on creating a signature t-shirt that will be the bread and butter of your brand, ensuring you find fabric suppliers that have sufficient yardage and consistent sourcing methods will help to reduce the issue of significant changes to your t-shirts. ...