Tailormade Production
At Crafts by Solid, we offer tailored solutions across India, Peru, and Kenya. Managing the full production chain allows us to create customized pieces that meet your exact needs. From kantha stitching, crochet, handweaving, and quilting in India to exceptional handknitwear in Peru and unique handweaving techniques in Kenya, we provide personalized solutions that enhance your brand's identity. Choosing our services guarantees quality, ethical production, and a commitment to sustainability. Partner with us for authentic, impactful creations that resonate globally. Our flexible and multilingual team in Belgium takes care of all customer concerns, ensuring you can offer a high-quality, ethically finished product to your end customers.
Your production journey with us!
Step 1 - Alignment
Your journey with us starts by exploring our wide range of capabilities and services, giving you a comprehensive overview of the possibilities we can offer for your project. Once you're introduced to what we can achieve together and agree to our general terms and conditions, we proceed to an in-depth discussion focused on the technical specifics of your order, ensuring every detail is tailored to your needs.
Step 2 - Sampling & sourcing
Sampling: We start by carefully processing your production specifications with our local team, ensuring clarity and precision. Together, we select the appropriate yarns and techniques and craft initial samples for your review, allowing for adjustments to perfectly align with your vision.
Sourcing: We guide you through an extensive selection of materials, providing expert advice to navigate options that balance technical requirements—such as lead times, care instructions, and minimums—with aesthetics like drape, volume, and feel, alongside pricing, to identify the best fit for your project.
Step 3 - Prototype Development & Quality Assurance
1st Sampling: We craft your first prototype samples using available yarn, typically within 3 to 6 weeks (excluding transport). Our team works closely with you to develop a sample that meets your specifications and desires.
Quality Assurance: Our expertise lies in crafting highly specialized, handknit items at scale without compromising on quality. Our robust quality control system, including continuous monitoring and adherence to internal protocols, ensures every piece matches the technical specifications.
Fit Adjustments: Following the initial review, we offer a period of 2 to 6 weeks to make any necessary fit comments and corrections, ensuring the final product aligns perfectly with your vision.
Step 4 - Final Sampling & Accessory Integration
2nd Sampling: Typically, the second sampling phase is for producing sales samples, usually completed within 45-120 days, depending on yarn type and quantity. Additional sampling rounds are available as needed, but this stage commonly aligns with salesmen sampling.
Quality Assurance: As detailed earlier, we enforce strict quality control from start to finish, ensuring every piece adheres to the highest standards of craftsmanship.
Trims Development: This involves selecting and developing all additional components like brand and size labels, hang tags, buttons, and zippers. The process can take 30-60 days, subject to the complexity and iterations. To streamline production, ensure all trims are approved at the order placement. Bear in mind, trim orders have high minimums, recommending consolidation for efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
Step 5 - Production and Finishing Process
Design Approval: Prior to placing an order, all designs must be fully approved to ensure a seamless start to production.
Expert Supervision: We employ a team of well-trained, full-time supervisors to oversee our artisans throughout the production process. Their role is crucial in managing progress and upholding the exceptional quality standards we promise.
Comprehensive Quality Inspection:After the production is complete, our supervisors and management team perform an exhaustive inspection of each item. This final step ensures every piece meets our rigorous quality expectations before delivery.
Step 6 - Packing and Shipping Process
Packing Excellence: Our dedicated packing team understands the importance of presentation, ready to accommodate your needs with stickers, barcodes, replacement button kits, and specific folding styles. To minimize our ecological footprint, we offer biodegradable packaging and strive to pack as many items as possible in each bag, reducing packaging use in agreement with our customers.
Seamless Shipping Support: We are here to guide you through the entire shipping process, ensuring a smooth and efficient journey for your products. From providing logistical support to navigating customs and logistics, our team is committed to assisting you every step of the way, ensuring your goods arrive safely and on time.
Step 7 - Consistent Communication
Throughout the entire process, our focus on clear and consistent communication ensures that every production challenge is manageable. We understand the importance of information flow and strive to maintain open channels of communication with our clients. Our team is experienced in troubleshooting and will keep you informed about all relevant details, including local holidays, technical specifications, and projected timelines. This approach is designed to bring your collection to life with the least amount of stress possible, ensuring you're always in the loop regarding production updates and schedules.
Step 8 - Showcasing Real Impact
Partnering with us also means you're supporting a talented group of artisans, predominantly women, along with some men, contributing to a meaningful cause. This collaboration not only provides essential jobs to deserving individuals but also promotes responsible fashion. We're committed to helping you amplify your brand's impact, offering our artisans as models and providing you with striking images, testimonials, and communication materials. These resources allow you to share the stories of the individuals crafting your products, each one embodying resilience and hope for a brighter future through their work on your fair trade items.
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