About half an hour from Huddersfield
Clothing manufacturer for Huddersfield brands
For founders with the design done and no route to a small first run. Premium blanks, your own woven label, from 25 garments.
Huddersfield made its name on fine worsted cloth, and the town still has a university teaching fashion and textiles. If you are studying, or have just graduated, the gap is usually the same: the design is finished, and overseas cut and sew typically starts at 100 per style per colour.
This is the route at 25 garments. We do not weave cloth or cut and sew to your pattern. The garment is a premium blank from Stanley/Stella, Native Spirit or AS Colour, your artwork goes on it, and your woven label goes in its neck in place of the supplier’s (Native Spirit arrives with none). The Bradford unit is around half an hour from Huddersfield by road.
Starting from a design
From a collection to a first drop
A graduate collection is usually a handful of one-offs. A first drop is the same idea at a quantity you can sell: 25 garments, mixed styles counted together, so 15 tees and 10 hoodies is a run.
Spec the blank by code
Every style is listed by supplier code, weight and fit, the way you would write it on a tech pack. The Stanley/Stella Creator 2.0 (STTU169) is a 180gsm straight tee. The Asher (STTU078) is a 280gsm boxy oversized tee.
Design the label once
Your woven label is made to order at 100 per design, which is the label maker minimum. On a first run of 25 the spare labels are held for the next order, so the label artwork is a one-off job.
Not cut and sew
If the brief is a garment made from scratch to your own pattern, that is private label, and we do not do it. We will say so before you spend anything.
What we do
- Garments
- Premium blanks from Stanley/Stella, Native Spirit and AS Colour. Caps from Beechfield, Yupoong and Flexfit. Held in stock.
- Decoration
- Screen print, DTF and embroidery. Spot colour with a base white included as standard, every job specified and checked to our standard.
- Your own label
- Supplier label removed, your woven label stitched in. Printed care labels and swing tickets. Labels are 100 per design.
- Finishing
- Bagged, tagged and packed, ready to sell. Relabelling and finishing from 25 garments, mixed styles counted together.
Style codes, weights and fits are on the garments pages. The difference between white label and private label is on that page.
Minimums and lead times
- Garments
- From 25, mixed styles counted together
- Label minimum
- 100 per design. On a run of 25 you pay for 100 and we hold the rest
- Lead time
- Four to six weeks from artwork approval
- Reorders
- The same as the first run
- Woven labels
- 7 to 10 working days, new and repeat orders, alongside production
- Orders without labels
- Usually two to three weeks
Woven labels take 7 to 10 working days from the label maker, on new and repeat orders alike. They run alongside production rather than adding to it. Orders without labels are quicker. Decoration and finishing only is usually two to three weeks.
Huddersfield founder questions
- Yes, if the pieces can be made on stock blanks. A graduate collection is usually a handful of one-offs; a first drop is the same idea at a quantity you can sell, from 25 garments with mixed styles counted together and your own woven label. BR Apparel Launch Studio is in Bradford, around half an hour from Huddersfield by road.
- Yes. Relabelling and finishing start at 25 garments, mixed styles counted together, whoever is ordering. Woven labels are 100 per design, the label maker minimum, and the spares are held for your next order.
- Four to six weeks from artwork approval. Woven labels take 7 to 10 working days from the label maker, on new and repeat orders alike. They run alongside production rather than adding to it. Orders without labels are quicker. Decoration and finishing only is usually two to three weeks. Reorders on approved artwork take the same time as the first run.
- No. BR Apparel relabels premium blanks that already exist, which is white label. Cut and sew to your own pattern is private label, and we do not do it.
Start your brand
Quote the first drop, book a visit to the Bradford unit, or order a single sample.