Melissa and Lauren hail from the Gumbaynggirr, Dunghutti, and Bundjalung tribes of Australia’s East Coast, often referred to as “Saltwater Country.” For both mother and daughter, their art has been a powerful medium for healing intergenerational trauma.Miimi and Jiinda has collaborated with some iconic Australian brands such as Adairs, SEED and Jurlique, and their work has been featured on Channel 9’s, The Block, Vogue and Harpers Bazaar. Passionate about their Culture, Country and giving back, Melissa and Lauren are actively involved in community and supporting local efforts to preserve heritage and language also shown through their literacy and writing projects.

One aspect that makes us different from other manufacturers is that we come from a bespoke, detail orientated, couture background. We cater especially for brands who require lower volumes, and have an interest in the environmental impact of their business. We seek to make long term connections and see our clients as part of our intimate collective. Our ambition is to create an inclusive, supportive and creative environment for independent and emerging designers to thrive and make their mark on the fashion landscape.

Sample Room has been partnering with both startups and well-established fashion brands since 2009, providing comprehensive end-to-end development and production solutions.
Our services encompass precise and innovative pattern making, sample creation, grading, specifications, and production for a wide range of sectors, including sports, swimwear, woven fabrics, fashion, and bridal wear. We are proud to be ethically accredited and offer educational resources and mentoring to further support our clients.

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.

CGT AUSTRALIA, is a family run clothing manufacturer, operating since 1983.
we have a strong focus on ethical and sustainable practice

Start to finish manufacturing, pattern making, grading, sampling, cutting, placement cut, block fusing, bonding, buttonholes, buttons, studding, pressing, finishing, packing are done in-house at our factory in Brunswick by our experience team.

CGT is well known in the textile industry as a reliable trusted, high quality clothing manufacturer, they can manufacture any product required and are highly skilled and specialize in all fabrics, including but not limited to; knits, woven, linens, silks and velvet's.

We are clothing manufacturers with a difference, providing trafficking survivors and other at risk and vulnerable workers in Cambodia with training, support and safe employment in our ethical and sustainable factory.
We aim to disrupt the global clothing manufacturing model where thousands of workers are forced into unsafe, overcrowded workplaces to mass produce low quality garments, worn for a season and tossed.
This large scale “take make discard” model is not ethical for workers, nor sustainable for the planet. Instead, we are creating a network of small, localised digitally enabled sewing hubs with 30-50 workers each supporting a team of outworkers sewing from home in neighbouring communities. All producing quality garments, adopting good environmental practices and paying workers a living wage.
Our subsidiary, Avodah Manufacturing (Cambodia) works with Cambodian social justice and rescue agencies who rescue women from trafficking and exploitation and provide counselling, education and health support. When these women are ready to be reintegrated into the community and take on full time employment, they require training and a nurturing, supportive work environment. This is what Avodah Manufacturing (Cambodia) offers.

We enable fashion creatives to produce and distribute their collections, from initial concept through to customer delivery.
We offer digital printing onto natural fibres and a print design service.
We lasercut all of our garments and manufacture locally in WA.

All designs are made ethically and responsibly in Melbourne with a focus on productivity and sustainability. Anto Apparel is especially passionate about supporting the local fashion and manufacturing industry.

Established in 2018, Mastani's ready-to-wear collections are defined by bespoke artisanal fabrics, bold silhouettes and a progressive aesthetic. Ethical production and sustainability are at the heart of the brand, with the collections designed in Melbourne and all garment construction performed in-house in limited quantities at the Mastani-owned atelier in, India.

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.

We are a clothing manufacturing compnay with 4 modern facilities producing over 250,000 pcs of different types of products every month for export to Australia, New Zeland, UK, Europe and to Canada. We take pride in offering complete door to door solutions for all our customers with a very efficient fabric, trims development team and also offering very competitive prices with short lead times as well. Due to the geological situation of Sri Lanka we offer short shipping transit times as well. We do manufacture from an very basic garment to the most complicated structured tailoring products for all these markets. Also we take pride to offer our customer very small MOQ's as well.

Pathfinder is an Australian manufacturer of advanced cutting room technology. Automated knife cutting technology, Fabric Spreading Machines, Fabric Spreading tables and Computer Software for pattern digitization and pattern nesting.

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

A well established Australian owned and Australian Made specialist of outdoor clothing supplying 300+ retailers in Australia and overseas on a stock service basis.

Agile Sourcing is a sourcing specialist and buying agent business for Australian and NZ importers/buyers. In close collaboration with our clients, we manage your buying requirements from procuring products, design work, sampling, MOQ's, pricing negotiation, inline QCI and final QCI and logistics, through our network of vetted partners and manufacturers in India. We pride ourselves on innovation - re-generated fibres, natural fibres, sustainability, traceability and biodegradable fabrics and products.

Australian Coat Co produces a range of all-weather oilskin and durapel coats, jackets, overpants, jeans, bags & swags under our own label. We make industrial workwear to specific requirements.
We have the capability to custom make to our client's design using their choice of fabric. Our onsite embroidery machine adds to the services we provide.
With our machines configured so that we can sew from lightweight to heavyweight fabrics including canvas, vinyl & leather, we are able to assist with most projects.

Berserk retail store and studio. Stocking our signature label, and other brands all made in Australia. Small production and made measure.

Over the last 110 years, Claybourn has diversified from making the traditional short and full-length oilskin coats worn by the man on the land to include jackets, vests, overpants and other coat styles for general wear.
The cut of our traditional coats has proven to exceed others for comfort, and our upmarket design is eye catching. This concept has been extended into our new designs.
Claybourn's expert team will custom make to your requirements for size and design.

We produce quality fashion garment and products for brands with our Ethically certified factories. We manage the whole process from sourcing, sampling to production and logistics - saving our clients time and money in trying to navigate the process themselves. We work with many well known and successful brands, assisting them in their launch and business growth with our highly experienced and knowledgeable team.

Michael Watson designs works with Australian and New Zealand brands to source high quality fabrics and trims direct for manufacturers and wholesalers from Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and the UK and China. Concentrating on functional woven and knitted fabrics we also offer contract seam sealing for rain wear and machinery sales and installation. We can also work with our garment partners to provide a complete service: textile samples, colour matching, digital printing, garment making and sourcing, buttons, notions, zips, seam tape, adhesive film, down, down/synthetic filling machines. Keep control of your quality by sourcing your inputs to your requirements.