Melbourne’s leading freelance pattern maker & pattern grader.
EMERGING LABELS | New brand creation, product development.
ESTABLISHED LABELS | Improve quality and fit, outsource in-house grading.
Delivering the fastest turn around time in the fashion industry.

Established in 2009, The Social Studio is a recognised leader in arts-based social enterprise. We offer free training in garment-making to people from refugee and new migrant backgrounds through our education partner RMIT, delivering Cert III and pre-accredited programs within a flexible and supportive learning environment.

Our school shares space with our ECA-accredited manufacturing studio, giving students first-hand exposure to the industry as well as the opportunity for paid internships with our talented team of makers. We offer CMT across a range of apparel and homewares products and can also provide additional pattern making, product development and textile design services.

Our online and bricks and mortar retail stores exclusively stock BIPOC makers and brands and is a training and community space for culturally diverse young people. We collaborate with brands and artists across a range of art forms and also create our own in-house label from upcycled and donated fabrics.

All profits from our retail and manufacturing social enterprises support our education programs for refugee and new migrant young people.

MR. CUFF is a Melbourne luxury menswear brand creating high end bespoke men's suiting and apparel. Every suit is expertly cut and sewn with a full canvas front and is specially handcrafted for that perfect fit.

MR. CUFF menswear is handmade ethically and sustainably by Australian tailors for Australian conditions. We use only natural fabrics, that both feel better and are kinder to the planet. To avoid waste, we use fabric offcuts to make hats, scarves and accessories.

MR. CUFF is one of the few remaining tailors that designs and manufactures on site.

At Petit Jardin Couture, every garment is individually designed and handcrafted with high standard. We use luxurious fabrics and fine accessories.

Clothes Minded provides a range of services including sustainability consulting, sample making, ethical sourcing, design work and start-up assistance.

Fashion Smart is your dedicated partner for turning fashion ideas into reality. We specialize in assisting start-ups and businesses with comprehensive design room services, guiding you from concept to product development. Our team provides unwavering support throughout, including small-run manufacturing for precise and high-quality results.

Beyond design services, Fashion Smart is a leading training provider. We empower individuals to enhance their digital skills in patternmaking, grading, and CAD operation. Countless participants have successfully upskilled to CAD, CLO3D, and Adobe Illustrator through our proven training programs.

Tamara Design Services can help with all your design needs. Whether it be Creative Direction, Design of your next collection, textile prints or some other type of design, dip in and out of what you need. We like clients to feel we are an extension of their business.
We specialise in the fashion and textiles industry but we are not limited to that.
For information, estimates and turn around times, contacts us.

We also supply wholesale knitted and woven fabrics, as well as curtaining and hotel and hospital linen, towelling, bath robes and related clothing, i.e. scrubs, patient gowns etc

I have been working as a freelancing fashion designer in Melbourne since 2019 while continuing my study at RMIT university. Before choosing to be a freelancer in Melbourne, I had 11 years of working experience in the fashion manufacturing industry in mainland China, from fashion technician designer to a small garment factory owner. My main work field at the moment is apparel patterning & grading, CAD sketching, tech pack development, and sampling, as well as servicing as a manufacturing agent focusing on small MOQ orders for local brands. Welcome to contact me with quotations or other inquiries. Your email will be replied within 2-3 business days.

RBPATTERNS have established themselves as the leading freelance pattern making, grading and sampling house in Australia. We work across global scale and smaller niche brands successfully supporting their place in the market. We bring over 30 years of creative and technical knowledge.

Creation in partnership of an Impact Agenda framework based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals - Sourcing guidance to convert virgin ingredients to more sustainable ingredients - Increasing supply chain transparency to fulfil corporate reporting requirements - Enhancement of corporate reputation

The Uniform Edit delivers a concept that allows you to custom design your uniform with our in house team. More importantly, we build a uniform that enhances your corporate image and works hand in hand with your brand.
We start our journey together with an initial obligation free consultation. Moving forward we create sketches of your new look, showcase fabrics and colours and with you build a strong brand, creating confidence in your team.

MIRRARME, a virtual try-on service that allows customers to see themselves in the latest fashion from online retailers.

Firstly we convert a retailers clothing into 3D, via a process called photogrammetry. Retailers simply send us images of their clothing, which we covert with our AI into a 3D model. With this tech, we are able to remove the mannequin or models from the images to leave a perfect 3D mirror of the clothing.

Secondly, via our app, we create a 3D mirror model of the client from a single headshot and a couple of measurements. Within 45 seconds, the client has a mirror model of themselves with the added benefit of calculating the best fit, based on the fashion retailers sizing guidelines.

Finally, the client selects the 3D clothing from the online store and the MIRRARME app opens to show both the client and clothing in 3D. We then take it a step further with AR for a full 360 view, where the client can walk around the mirror model of themselves and see the clothing from every angle. Providing a personalized shopping experience.

Whilst no one can fully replicate the in-store try-on experience, MIRRARME goes pretty close.

DesignMotiv is a textile and fashion design | development studio, specialising in intimate apparel, swimwear, activewear and soft separates. Providing a bespoke service, for start-ups and established design labels looking for textile print and full garment development services.

Founded by Judy Anderson, DesignMotiv is a textile and fashion design development studio, specialising in intimate apparel, swimwear, activewear and soft separates.

With over 25 years of outstanding international and local expertise, in all aspects of research, design and technical garment development, along with textile design expertise, you’ll gain access to a wealth of invaluable knowledge. Along connections to local and offshore industry professionals and teams.

Expertise
Intimate Apparel & Corsetry | Swimwear | Active & Sportswear | Soft Separates

Services
Surface/Textile Design | Moodboards | Rangeplans | Garment Design | Technical illustrations/CADs | Production Ready Technical Packs | Measurement Specs | Patternmaking and Product Development | Garment Fitting

Want to find out more?

Let’s get in touch to discuss the full range of consulting and contract services we have to offer.

3 Clicks Cloud is a web based PLM platform that allows Apparel, Accessory and Homeware organisations to manage their entire production cycle in one place by leveraging live production data, no matter when or where they work. The software is designed to help avoid major issues by identifying them before they happen. It also connects the retailer/wholesaler with their suppliers. By registering for a free account, suppliers can have access to live data that has been shared with them.

I specialise in womenswear, offering made-to-measure garment making for private clients, as well as pattern-making, pattern-grading and Cut, Make, Trim services for small, sustainable brands.

L I N 8 is a boutique luxury creative and works with boutique workshop artisans in Australia and Singapore with a total of over a century's experience in the craft. Some L I N 8 pieces are available only by limited numbers each year which means we do not craft more than the limited numbers and this information remains discreet between L I N 8 and our clients.

We help you to launch and grow your fashion business with:
- an online print shop with downloadable textile designs
- custom fashion, textile and graphic design
- technical packs and CADs
- ethics and sustainability consultancy

Melbourne Sewing and Patternmaking is a small, locally owned and operated business, offering a variety of industrial machines for anything from sample development to small scale bulk production runs. With 10 years of industry experience, the owner, Karin, has experience managing everything from mass offshore manufacturing down to developing local prototypes for RFT for the Aus Defence Force. She now enjoys a more hands-on approach, and loves getting to know the legends behind local labels; championing a more sustainable approach to our supply chain and the business of fashion as a whole.

Quillan is an intriguing amalgamation of passions: Personal expression through the artistry of fashion, natural organic fabrics, supporting small ethical factories and suppliers, sustainable practices, a desire to safeguard our health, and a solid belief in co-creating a better world for all who inhabit this precious Earth.

Sample Room services established designers, designers returning to Australian manufacturing and start-up designers develop their styles. With a very experienced team of pattern makers, cutters and sample machinists all under the one roof in our new workroom in Collingwood, Sample Room can help with patterns, samples, grading, markers, detailed specs, etc.
Sample Room has invested in the latest technology to allow us to provide stand alone grading and marker making services for those with paper or card patterns.

Fashion Tech & Spec is a fashion design studio, specialising in bringing your clothing collection to life! We provide an exceptional service transforming your concepts into reality, ready for manufacturing. We create tech packs, technical drawings, trend reports and print designs.

Studio Elastica is a fashion design and development studio specialising in swimwear and activewear.

With over 25 years-experience designing and developing fashion product for internationally acclaimed brands, our skilled team can take your creative brand vision and work with you to launch a physical fashion range.

We offer bespoke, full-design services and are industry experts in concept creation, garment development and fit.

We work with established designs teams, start-ups, stylists and industry experts to refine and develop concepts and streamline design team procedures and practices.

We offer consulting and contract services across all aspects of fashion design and production.

Together with their business partners they have a fully transparent circular system offering logistics, repairing, re-making and recycling service. Working closely with A Fitting Connection team, they can support your brand to redesign and remake products for the business to sell or help organise a social good collaboration.

The team at A Fitting Connection can support your brand turn waste into a win for your brand and Mother Earth.

The Love Life Lab with 20 + years Experience in Design, Marketing, Product Development, QC. Production, & Retail. The Love Life Lab has worked with Young Fashion, Apparel, Sportswear & Designer Labels with a Passion for great Design, protecting the Environment, Nature, Health and Human Rights. Following a process of Assessment, Establishing Goals, Roadmaps, Training & Development, Collaborations, New Technologies, Regenerative Agriculture and the Circular Economy to get Results taking us forward together to Better Brands and Building a Brighter Future.

Fashion designer and couturier, specializes in occasion wear, also does bridal customization and alterations, costumes designer and styling.

Working within the fashion industry with a sustainable focus we aim to improve and offer solutions for Design, sourcing and Manufacturing. We work with both Start-ups and existing businesses. Working with both local and offshore partners to ensure that the best ethical and sustainable fabrics are sourced and used, that where possible we only use accredited factories and also help support any local communities we are in.

We deliver Industry specific programs as well as provide Consultations and Product development services for early stage, emerging and growing fashion business.
We strive to be the ultimate Fashion Business Program provider for creatives wishing to run their own fashion businesses alongside recognition for our ability to deliver the highest quality in our product development services
Our USP include detailed information provided by relevant industry experts who span over three decades of experience, and are genuinely invested in the best outcomes for participants, hence always going the extra mile.

All our products are made by hand in our design and production studio on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. They are products of meaning that are an extension of the customer's personality and self expression. We offer a unique experience to individuals and other brands, involving them in the design and production process to sustainably create something unique that combines style, comfort and durability.

Fashion retailers can provide a rich online experience of the colour, texture and gloss of their materials by adding Bandicoot Shimmer Views to their website. Viewers can see how the light plays on the material as they tilt their phone or move their mouse.
This new technology increases online engagement and conversions, and reduces online returns. A Shimmer View can be created quickly by taking photos using a handheld camera.
Bandicoot can also create digital fabric twins for use in 3D garment design to lower physical sampling costs, reduce waste and bring new designs into the market more quickly.

We alter & repair all types of clothing and are experts in getting the perfect fit for all bridal wear.
Need an article embroidered, yes we do that as well.

From initial design concept through to dispatch to your customer, Expresslink is here to help you realise your fashion dreams.

With 15 years experience in fashion production, Katie Freeman and her team are passionate about providing cost effective services to fashion designers. Using a unique laser cutting system, we specialise in small to medium sized production runs with no minimum order quantity and a fast, local turnaround.

FibreTrace is a textile transparency technology solution that provides both brands and consumers the ability to follow their product lifecyle from seed to shelf; including instant real time verification of product throughout the global supply chain. It's made up of three parts; a luminescent pigment adhered to the fibre to trace, a unique hand-held scanning device which audits the fibre content, and a blockchain backed software platform. The technology even follows the garment to its final stages - recycle, reuse or rebirth. 

Image Digital is your local digital eco-friendly fabric printer. Printing on a wide range of fabrics or you can supply your own. We also offer textile laser cutting and local ethical manufacturing as well as a wide range of marketing and promotional products to assist with your business needs. We are registered with the Australian Made campaign for fabric printing and apparel manufacturing.

We provide a niche, personalised service, and specialised industry and technical knowledge to our government, corporate and industry clients. We liaise closely with industry while operating independently of suppliers and manufacturers.

Products we work with include uniforms, performance and protective clothing (PPC), corporate wardrobes, promotional clothing, accessories and footwear, and health, hospitality and institutional textiles.
We facilitate better procurement outcomes by analysing, simplifying and systemising how our clients identify, purchase and manage their TCF requirements.

IMAGEWORKS uses proprietary and proven tools and templates to address each organisation's specific requirements, and ensure efficiency, transparency and accountability.

We are very hands-on and guide our clients through every step, enabling them to understand and manage priorities and risks, and take control of their procurement processes, outcomes and contracts.

Indigo8 is a modern tech company working directly with fashion brands to provide Cloud systems that organise and help grow their businesses. Our systems can run everything from style development, sampling, wholesale sales, production, inventory management, warehousing and full e-boutique and retail point of sale integration. Indigo8 is the number 1 choice for growing and established fashion labels. Our systems range from what we call Lite, cost effective systems for small and growing brands all the way up to Enterprise platforms for established multinational companies.

We are a Professional Digital Pattern making Service offering Grading, Marker Making,
3D Visualization, Digitizing, Specifications, Samples and Production. We have a life time of experience in all cut and sew categories. We also offer Size & Fit consultations, Block development; Training and Software solutions.

Jamie Ferris-May Studio provides design and development services, support and mentoring to established and emerging fashion labels to ensure successful OS or local made product. Jamie's many years of experience and vast knowledge in the fashion industry ensures your product is in capable and professional hands.
Services include:
1. Considered product design and development - ensure the best commercial outcomes.
2. Creative pattern design and sampling - local and OS production.
3. Production-ready tech packs - local and OS production
4. A reliable source of local suppliers and manufacturing services
5. Small-run, sustainable and ethical OS manufacturing services.