The different assembly techniques

What if we talked about assembly? Don't worry, we haven't turned into a Sunday DIY enthusiast, we're still talking about clothing. What we call "assembly" of a garment is actually the assembly technique. And yes because a sweater, before being a sweater, is first spools of thread or pieces of fabric that are then knitted together to obtain the final sweater. Among these different assembly techniques, there are three that we're going to present to you today: cut and sew, fully-fashioned and wholegarment. It sounds complicated like that, plus it's in English, but you'll see after 2/3 explanations, you'll recognize the assembly of your favorite sweater without any problem.

Cut and sew

Cut and sew is probably the simplest technique to explain and the easiest to understand. If we translate its English name, it gives "cut and sew", which is quite clear. We therefore use patterns to draw and then cut the different pieces of a garment (sleeves, collar, bust, ...), then we sew them together to build the final piece. Fabric scraps are therefore lost and wasted. Some clothing manufacturers surely recycle these scraps as insulation for housing or for other purposes. That said, this is probably not the majority of them.

Fully-fashioned

Let's move on to the fully-fashioned technique. This is the one we use for our crew neck sweater. This technique consists of knitting each individual piece necessary to manufacture the garment in question. Once each piece is knitted, we assemble them to each other. Did you know that in France, less than a quarter of clothing is recycled? If clothing is already not recycled, we'll let you imagine what happens to fabric scraps. Fully-fashioned is therefore the anti-waste technique, thanks to which no piece of fabric is lost, because there simply are no fabric scraps.

Wholegarment

We finish with the most modern and therefore most recent technique: the wholegarment. It's a derivative of fully-fashioned but even more advanced. Wholegarment garments are knitted in one piece thanks to 3D technology. There are therefore no seams and no waste in terms of fabric scraps. It's a revolutionary technique at the cutting edge of technology since a machine can knit your sweater alone for example.

We note that assembly techniques evolve with time and new technologies. The 3 techniques are therefore different, each has certain advantages as well as certain disadvantages. We must use the technique that is in accordance with what we want to do. For this, it is necessary to ask ourselves whether we prefer to save money, or avoid waste for example.

In any case, we hope we've taught you a thing or two...