What should be in a clothing tech pack?
What should be in a clothing tech pack?
Tech packs contain detailed information about your garment design like the size measurements, care label instructions, art-work placement, fabric specifications, packing instructions etc. Factories use your tech pack to quote price and make samples.
What is a garment tech pack?
A Tech Pack (short for Technical Pack) is a set of informative documents used to communicate your product requirements to a manufacturer. A Garment Technician, Pattern Maker, Designer or Product Developer is responsible for creating a Tech Pack for each product in a range.
What is a tech tee shirt?
Better known as the tech t-shirt for short, this lightweight tee, usually under 5 oz or so, is made up of Polyester. The Polyester helps wick moisture away from your body. Tech T-shirts may also contain a bit of spandex from time to time to help with the shirt’s movement and flexibility during activity.
How much should a tech pack cost?
A tech pack can cost, depending on how complex they are, anything from US$ 50 to $400. Unfortunately, these skills aren’t really taught in universities and are discovered by designers through experience. The quality varies greatly, depending on who taught them and how knowledgeable they were.
Are tech packs necessary?
A tech pack is a document containing all the technical information about your product. It’s an essential document for both designers and production teams when producing new collections, as it helps clearly communicate every little detail about what you are making, to your manufacturer.
What makes a good tech pack?
A good tech pack should illustrate and annotate the garment with key information and instructions to help advise the manufacturer about how to make it. The more information you can add about the details the better.
Why do I need a tech pack?
What are technical T shirts made of?
Technical t-shirts
- Performance Dri-wicking Polyester Fabric.
- Produced using full coverage seam to seam dye.
- Sublimation print and pantone options.
- Long and short sleeve options are available.
- Male and female sizing.
- Unlimited printed colours with no additional cost.
- Charity discount on all technical t-shirt orders.
What is technical wear?
What is techwear? It’s the abbreviated, stylized word for technical wear. It’s urban apparel that uses high-quality fabrics, and technical detailing to create a product that can stand up to the elements. Brands like The North Face and Patagonia have been making high-quality technical wear for years.
Why are tech packs so expensive?
The high sounding cost is because a sample maker needs to create an entire pattern from scratch and cut out your fabric from this pattern by hand. Imagine not having any exact instructions, specifications and technical drawings for a product you are supposed to be making a sample of.
