Cable, jacquard, intarsia, pointelle, stripe and textured-stitch designs, where the stitch is the design and the machine time is the cost.
On patterned knitwear the design and the cost are the same conversation. An intarsia with eight colours or a heavy cable can double the machine time per garment, and that is decided at the design stage whether or not anyone costed it.
We cost the stitch before the design is signed off, suggest where a jacquard can carry the look at a fraction of the intarsia time, and check that the pattern repeats cleanly across the full size set rather than only on the sample size.
Yarn dyeing and delivery is the longest lead item. It is booked ahead of the order, not after.
Measurements controlled by stitch and row count per size, giving consistency a cut pattern cannot.
Pilling performance and softness tested on bulk yarn, because handfeel is what sells this category.
Body, sleeve and trim panels matched from the same dye lot to avoid visible shade variation on one garment.
Send a reference garment or a tech pack and we will come back with the factory, the fabric route and a costing.
