— Service 01 Tech Pack Development

Tech Pack
Development

The blueprint of flawless execution.

A tech pack is the contract between idea and factory floor — and the document most often responsible for failed production.

A garment rarely fails in the cutting room. It fails on the page that gets sent to it. Underspecified seams, ambiguous grade rules, mismatched fabric weights — these are not factory errors. They are documentation errors that travel downstream, accumulating cost the further they go.

We treat the tech pack as the most important deliverable in the development cycle. Every measurement, every callout, every stitch instruction is written so that a factory you have never visited can execute your design correctly on the first try — without phone calls, without guessing, and without sending the cost of confusion back to you.

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— Deliverables What sits inside a NOBA tech pack.

Every detail documented before the first cut.

— 01

Construction sketches

Vector tech sketches with exploded views and panel-level callouts in production-ready Illustrator files. Front, back, internal construction, hidden details — drawn the way a factory reads, not the way a customer does.

— 02

Graded measurement specs

Full point-of-measure tables with grading rules across your size run. Every dimension a sewing machine needs to know, defined to the millimetre.

— 03

Bill of materials

Itemised BOM covering fabric, lining, fusing, trims, threads, and packaging — with supplier-grade SKU codes and approved alternates noted where relevant.

— 04

Stitch & finish library

Stitch type per seam, SPI counts, edge treatments, topstitch tolerances, and finishing specifications. Nothing left to the operator's interpretation.

— 05

Label & care details

Brand label placement, content labels, care symbols, country of origin, and hangtag layouts — pre-approved for the markets you sell into.

— 06

Quality reference photos

Annotated photography of approved samples so factory QC is aligned to physical reference, not to a paragraph of text.

— Process From brief to manufacture-ready file.

A sequence we don't shortcut.

— Step 01

Design brief intake

A working session with your team to surface intent, references, target price, fabric direction, and known constraints. The document we produce is only as good as the conversation that begins it.

— Step 02

Technical translation

We rebuild your sketch as a true production drawing: panel breakdowns, seam allowances, internal construction, hidden details. What was suggestive becomes specific.

— Step 03

Grading & POM

Measurement points are defined and graded across your size run using rules that real bodies move through. We do not scale-and-multiply — we grade with intent.

— Step 04

BOM & sourcing notes

Materials and trims are specified to a level a sourcing team can act on without phone calls. Approved alternates are noted where supply risk warrants them.

— Step 05

Factory handover

The pack is delivered with a walkthrough — either to our own production floor or to a partner factory — so the work starts from understanding, not interpretation.

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— Standards

What you can expect every time.

  • Adobe Illustrator (.ai) vector files, layered and named
  • Editable Excel spec sheets and locked PDF distribution copies
  • Pantone TPX / TCX colour references with approved CIE measurements
  • ISO-standard size grading rules — POM defined per category
  • Industry-standard stitch and finishing notation throughout
  • Annotated reference photography for visual QC alignment
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