Based in Melbourne, our sewing studio is equipped with essential industrial machines – plain stitch, walking foot, overlockers and more alongside access to skilled specialists for cutting, pressing, pattern making and everything in between. The right tools and hands are in place to bring projects to life. Customers can bring their own materials, let us source them or mix it up. Quotes are clear, timelines are realistic and projects whether big orders or single pieces end up ready to collect or posted anywhere across Australia. It’s about doing good work, keeping things practical and making sewing hassle free.

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.

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

We have a wide range of production capacities, from weaving, dyeing/printing, embroidery to garmenting. We can offer fancy capabilities like handscreen printing (among the largest in India), space dyeing/yarn dyeing for home furnishing and placed embroidery/prints. Sustainability at scale is the foundation of our business: from using yarns with low carbon impact to the best dyes made in solar powered factories.

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.

I help fashion startups and established fashion & textiles brands bring ideas to life and produce quality, profitable and ethical collections. I can work with you on technical design, product development, tech pack design, patternmaking, sample making, fabric and factory sourcing, managing production and QC.

I can give you focussed, flexible attention on the areas you need help with, including:

technical flat drawings / CADs
tech pack design services
brand fit strategy
patternmaking & sample making
fabric & trim sourcing
factory sourcing & liaison
offshore production
ethical garment production
consulting
one-on-one training
referrals to industry experts based on specialisations

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.

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.

SEAM is focussed at integrating textile manufacturing value chain from fibre through to end products - garments & home textiles and markets. SEAM enables translating buyers ideas into customised end products. We specialise in hand-holding for start-ups helping them establish direct linkages with manufacturers in Vietnam and India. We work with manufacturers and suppliers that are accredited for ethics, sustainability and social responsibility, are certified by international organisations and audited by independent auditors. SEAM's collaboration of associates brings together their knowledge of markets and manufacturing supply chains in Australia, India, USA and Vietnam.

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.

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.