Handmade sampling and micro-run production services
No Sweat Fashions is a social enterprise business employing highly skilled and experienced refugees and migrants in Canberra in a boutique design and production studio.
By engaging us, you help them use their skills to build a new live here in Australia.
We provide high quality garment construction to your specifications, using the fabric and trims that you provide. We specialise in very small, high-value garments and accessories especially for the ‘handmade’ retail market.
Are you an emerging design label who requires high quality but small production runs?
Are you a designer but struggle with constructing at the level your target market demands?
Our sewing system is ‘hand made’ which mean that one tailor produces your entire garment.
Get higher prices for your handmade products using our experienced machinists and tailors.
We specialise in minimum waste, recycling and repurposing vintage textiles in news designs
Friendly, collaborative studio environment; ideal for new and emerging designers who are new to contracting and to established designs/brand looking for get a high-quality service from and ethical, social studio with a difference.
Process:
- Schedule an initial meeting with our Creative Director who will review your production sample (toile or pattern)
- Provide us with a finished sample, including all fabrics, trims, linings etc and a complete production ready pattern (including trim placement and detailed specifications—exact seam and sewing info)
- Once you approve the sample, we will provide you with a per garment production cost