At Hook and Eye UK, we insist on creating tech packs for our clients in our live tech packing sessions. A tech pack serves as the guide that enables us to make your clothes in an efficient, cost effective and high-quality way that meets your expectations.
Good tech packs are the cornerstone of having your clothes manufactured properly!
Updated for September 2026
In this article we'll explain the rationale behind our insistence on creating comprehensive tech packs for all the garments we sample and manufacture. Also we’ll explain why that helps you as a fashion brand owner.
How we Create Efficient Tech Packs
Simply put, tech packs need to be as efficient and clear as possible, otherwise issues arise during the manufacturing process. Mostly these issues come from the ambiguity within poorly created tech packs, anything that isn’t abundantly clear leaves the manufacturer to make decisions on the interpretation of what is in your tech pack.
We build our tech packs using a graphic and fabric coding system. This system is paired with the specific positioning of information that makes it easier for everyone in the manufacturing chain to understand and follow.
It also means that everyone in our manufacturing supply chain is working to a shared plan & shared language, helping to eradicate possible mistakes. This makes your final garments more accurate and ensures a higher quality product.
How Good Tech Packs Minimise Workload and Costs
Proficient tech packs drastically reduce the workload required to get to an approved sample during the manufacturing phase. This reduction in manual workload translates to lower production costs, which, in turn, benefits you as a fashion brand owner as it reduces your unit cost, without compromising production quality.
How Tech Packs Can Help to Reduce MOQ’s
Tech packs that increase production efficiency help to make it more worthwhile for our manufacturing team to work with lower Minimum Order Quantities (MOQs). Lower order quantities produce less profit for the manufacturer, as our tech packs unlock a more efficient manufacturing process, it means we can offer you more flexibility around the number of garments that you'd need to order, without impacting your unit cost.
The same amount of development goes into manufacturing 1 style that has only 50 units as 1 style that has 300 units so you can see why this is so vital.
How to Update Your Existing Garment and Accessory Tech Packs
Our tech pack and design sessions provide an opportunity to delve into every design detail, ensuring that the vision for your final garments is perfectly aligned and ready for the sampling and manufacturing process. Our talented designer can create high-quality tech packs from as little as some visual and physical references. If you have existing tech packs that require updating our designer can also work from these, each aspect will be discussed and redrawn.
How to Make Your Existing Tech Packs More Efficient
If you want to transform your existing tech packs into a more efficient and accurate format, whilst saving as much time as possible, here are some vital tips:
Step 1: Give our Ultimate Guide to Tech Packs a read:
Tech Pack in Fashion: The Ultimate Guide to Tech Packs for Fashion Brands
It's full of insider tips on what should be in a Tech Pack, and worth a read for any fashion brand owner.
Here are some other handy tips:
1. Have an idea of the fabrics and colours you like, look in your wardrobe to see what makes you feel great when you wear it and use that as a starting point for your fabric selection. In our tech pack and design sessions our designer can match your existing references to options within our fabric library.
2. Decide total units you want for each style.
3. Research graphic application methods that meet your design preferences (screen print/ embroidery etc).
4. Give solid coated (c) Pantone colours for any graphic colours (these can easily be found with a quick internet search).
5. Provide clear visuals of the style/s to show overall fit and construction requirements – this can be mock-ups or images of other similar styles.
The above will mean that we can work with you to quickly and cost-effectively create tech packs that save you time and money when manufacturing your clothing range.
The final step would be to book a time with us on the link below:
BOOK A TECH PACK AND DESIGN SESSION
In conclusion: our tech packs ensure cost-efficiency and more accurate clothing production for our clients which is why we insist on our process.
If you would like some guidance from us on your next clothing or accessory collection and you're new to Hook and Eye UK simply contact us here.
Hope this helps!
H&E Team
