How We Made Sewing Templates With Water Based Ink?!
- Brand
- Crafting Tools Retailer
- Concept
We were first approached with an urgent request from a company that had just acquired a crafting brand. They were seeking a partner to handle screen-printing on cotton batting, along with cutting, folding, and kitting it with their sewing and crafting components. This B2C product served as a sewing template, but the company had no existing vendors to take on the manufacturing. They needed a partner who could quickly develop the product and restructure their supply chain to meet current order demands.
01_Challenge
Establish a repeatable water-based printing and kitting manufacturing process on challenging cotton fabric.
02_Solution
The first issue we noticed was that after the acquisition, the customers’ files—including art, inventory, and kitting supplies—were disorganized. Our CSRs meticulously reviewed and reorganized each file. The material was highly elastic and stretched inconsistently, requiring extremely precise parts (since it served as a template).
For each kit, new art files were made to account for this stretch, and we produced 10 samples per SKU for their internal R&D team to test-sew and verify print accuracy. We screen printed a 1 color, water based ink onto the cotton. At the end of the print line, inline folders handled the folding and kitting process to reduce cost.