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From idea to finished garment. Every stage.

Building a custom garment takes eight distinct stages. Most of them are slow, expensive, and require specialized skills. textiledb compresses the first five into a single session.

Concept and Mood

Every garment starts as an idea: a reference photo, a fabric swatch, a sketch on a napkin. Traditionally you'd assemble a mood board manually, collect tear sheets, and write a creative brief for your pattern maker.

textiledb: Describe your concept in plain language. Upload reference images or Pinterest boards. The AI extracts design intent and structures it into a brief automatically.

Design and Sketching

A trained fashion illustrator or CAD operator translates the brief into a technical flat: a proportional, detail-accurate outline of the garment showing every seam, dart, and closure. This step alone can take days and cost hundreds of dollars.

textiledb: Generates production-grade technical flats from your description in seconds. Interactively refine collar shape, pocket placement, closure type, and proportions.

Fabric and Color Selection

Choosing the right fabric involves weight (GSM), composition (fiber blend), hand feel, drape, and care properties. Color needs Pantone matching. You'd normally order lab dips and wait weeks for swatches.

textiledb: AI recommends fabrics from a structured database of weights, compositions, and suppliers. Pantone matching is automatic. Compare multiple fabrications side-by-side.

Tech Pack Assembly

The tech pack is the manufacturer's instruction manual. It includes the technical flat, spec sheet with graded measurements, bill of materials (every button, thread, label, zipper), construction notes (stitch types, seam allowances, finishings), and Pantone color callouts.

textiledb: Generates the entire tech pack automatically. Graded specs, BOM, construction details, and color references. Export as a formatted PDF that factories already know how to read.

Visualization and Marketing

Before production, you need visuals: on-model shots for your store, flat-lays for social media, lookbook spreads for wholesale buyers. This normally requires sample garments, studio time, models, and post-production.

textiledb: Generate all marketing visuals from your design file. Choose body types, skin tones, poses, and backgrounds. Export high-res PNGs for any channel.

Sampling

You send the tech pack to a manufacturer and order a sample. The factory cuts the first pattern, sews a prototype, and ships it to you. This round-trip can take 2 to 6 weeks and several iterations before the fit is right.

textiledb: Because your tech pack has graded specs, tolerances, and detailed construction notes from the start, you reduce back-and-forth. Fewer samples, faster approval.

Production

Once the sample is approved, the factory grades patterns for all sizes, sources bulk fabric, and begins production. Quality control checkpoints happen at cutting, sewing, and finishing.

textiledb: Your grading tables are already in the tech pack. The manufacturer scales directly from your export. No re-measuring, no re-calculating.

Fulfillment and Launch

Finished goods are shipped to your warehouse or 3PL. You list them with the product photos, descriptions, and size charts from earlier steps.

textiledb: Your marketing visuals, size charts, and product descriptions are already generated. Upload directly to Shopify, WooCommerce, or your wholesale platform.