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Clothing Tech Pack & Design Session
Need tech packs for your clothing brand? Our clothing tech pack designers are here to help
Good garment tech packs are the key to a successful fashion brand. In our clothing tech pack & design sessions, you'll work alongside an expert tech pack designer to create fully developed, high-quality tech packs for your clothing brand.
What is a Tech Pack & Design Session?
Our tech pack & design sessions will give you industry-leading tech packs that you can use to create a fashion brand.
In every tech pack & design session you work alongside one of our designers, on a one-to-one basis online via Zoom or in person in our studio. We do all the drawing and technical work while advising and helping you through the entire session by sharing our expertise and honest advice.
After every tech pack & design session you will have the tech packs you need for sampling and bulk clothing production. In these sessions we design exactly to your needs across a wide range of garments. These include dresses, t-shirts, trousers, cargos, joggers, swimwear, basic underwear, hoodies, tops, basic outerwear, etc.
We'll also create simple graphics if needed and give full access to our range of 80+ pre-developed garments to use as base shape to design around (if needed).
Choose from our range of fashion tech pack & design sessions below:
OUR POPULAR TECH PACK & DESIGN SESSIONS:
What the clothing tech pack & design session includes
You will work with an expert designer to develop tech packs for your clothing brand. You bring the vision for what you want to create, we bring the expertise to turn it into fully-fledged tech packs that can be taken to sampling and manufacture.
Your tech packs will come in clear line drawings with annotations which will enable our team manufacturer to follow exactly how you want your clothing to come out.
This is a crucial step for any clothing brand, and working with Hook and Eye UK to get this done properly will save you a lot of time and money down the line as you move forward with your clothing manufacture.
From our Clients:
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"Helped me create a tech pack which brought my vision to life"
"Hook and Eye helped me create a tech pack which brought my vision to life. The attention to detail was amazing, helped me with all my questions! HIGHLY recommend!"
- Joe Jerrom
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"Booked a 4 hour design session and was the best decision I've made"
"Booked a 4 hour design session and was the best decision I’ve made for the brand thus far. Incredibly helpful and very professional. Would recommend for anyone either starting a brand or looking to create new designs/tech packs."
- Daniel Clark
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"Created a complex tech pack...highly recommend!"
"From assistance with the logo and branding, to creating a complex tech pack, Hook and Eye have been professional, warm and transparent throughout the whole process. Highly recommend!"
- India Hall
Launch your clothing brand with confidence using our tech pack design services
Hook and Eye UK specialises in designing fashion tech packs for streetwear and loungewear brands at all levels. Our depth of expertise and unique design process will give you tech packs that save you significant time and money as you move into sampling and bulk manufacture of your fashion brand.
FAQs
Tech packs:
Q. Can you make my clothing designs and tech packs for me?
A. Yes, we can. We offer a range of fashion tech pack design sessions which allow you to sit one–to–one with one of our tech pack designers via an online or in-person session. See our *Best Selling* 'Tech Pack and Design Sessions' for more info.
Q. How quickly can I book a tech pack design session?
A. You can purchase a tech pack design session online at any time, it will depend on the slots available but typically customers can book a session within a week of purchase.
Q. What do I need to prepare for my tech pack design session?
A. A bit of preparation will massively increase the value you get from your design session. Here's our guide on how to fully prepare for a tech pack & design session.
Q. Can you provide bulk manufacture pricing from our tech packs?
A. We can send you over our estimated bulk production prices based on generic items like hoodies, teeshirts, joggers etc. Just ask us to send our 'Estimated Pricing Guide'.
Q. I'm not sure of the best way to move forwards, do you offer consultation/guidance?
A. Yes we do and all levels of brands are welcome! See our Brand Consultancy page.
Q. What is included in the fashion design tech pack?
A. Every style and colorway has its own tech pack.
Main info points:
Brand name, style name, SKU code, shipping country, coloured technical drawing, graphic application type/size/code, custom back new label/print, custom care label/print, fabric / trim composition and weight, fabric colour/s number/s and coding, number of graphic applications, sample size, bulk production units required, base pattern size, specification date, black and white technical drawing with annotations on construction and trim requirements, lining construction drawing (if required), reference imagery for fit reference and construction references, basic measurements, trim requirements, digital pattern information, construction guidelines and any other supporting information required.
Q. What is a garment tech pack or specification?
A. A tech pack is the full 'blueprint' or 'recipe' guide to instruct everyone in the sampling and bulk manufacture chain exactly what you want your garments to end up like. It's used for costing, pattern cutting, fabric procurement, graphic application, sample/bulk construction, quality checks etc. It vitally important because it acts as a contract between you and your manufacturer and enables you to query anything that doesn't come back as stated by the tech pack (that's not been discussed with you during the construction process).
Q. What does a fashion tech pack and design session involve?
A. The tech pack and design session is a one on one session with our trained designer, they will create the tech packs in front of you while discussing every detail of the design. You will come out of the session with industry standard tech packs for each item, this will allow you to proceed to costing, sampling and bulk manufacture. No good manufacturer will work without full professional standard tech packs. As Hookandeyeuk only manufactures to premium quality levels we only manufacture to tech packs created in our sessions as the session acts as guidance as well as the creation of the full tech packs. Our sessions are designed to ensure that you completely understand everything that you are requesting/ agreeing to, understanding is the key to a great tech packs (and great samples).
Q. What kind of support is expected from apparel tech pack designers?
A. We send a super simple guide that has everything we need for you to be fully prepped for the session when you purchase. You will have already discussed your needs in depth with one of our initial brand contact team members (we do not let anyone book until all your needs are understood). Your initial conversation about requirements is done through sending reference imagery / simple mockups to our WhatsApp and having conversations about your needs. The most important thing for a successful tech pack and design session is for you to have reference garments with you that you love the fabric/fit or detailing of. Showing these to our designer really helps speed up the process! Graphic formats are really important too. For any simple text or logo graphic to have the best quality garment application we need the digital format to be provided in vector (files ending .svg, .esp or .ai) but don't worry we're happy to see if we can convert from the highest resolution files for you have and if you're using a pre-made font we'll simply quickly mockup in session (as long as you can provide us with the font name). If you have a large image based graphic all you need to do is email over to us in 300 DPI (or the highest you have) with transparent background so we can check if the image quality is good enough. That's all everything else we do for you!
Bulk Clothing Manufacture:
Q. What is your minimum order quantity for clothing manufacture?
A. There is an MOQ of 30 units per design/colour. (This gets higher with the complexity of your design). To go into bulk manufacture you must have a minimum of 2 designs, this could be one garment in two colour ways or two separate garments.
Q. How long does bulk manufacture take?
A. 4-8 weeks + shipping (This time assumes that you have already been through the sampling processes with us). If you are a returning customer and you want to re-order stock, we can usually shorten this time frame.
Q. Where is bulk manufacture made?
A. We have an integrated manufacturing team based in China.
Pricing:
Q. How much does it cost to have fashion tech packs made?
A. We understand that budgets vary, so we offer a range of different tech pack design sessions for fashion brands of all sizes. You can find our different design session packages here.
Q. What is the cost of a pattern / sample / bulk manufacture?
A. All pricing is based off the tech pack of each individual garment, so pricing is individual for every service we provide. Costing changes with the complexity of the garment and the number of garments being made. Costing can also be affected by fabric type / weight, graphic applications, and shipping methods.
Location:
Q. Where are you based?
A. Our studio is in Birmingham, UK. We work with fashion brands and startup clothing companies across the UK and internationally, especially with clients in the USA, Canada and Australia. Our online tech pack & design sessions can help you start a fashion brand from anywhere in the world.
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