How to brief a plush factory (and what comes back)
Most first enquiries arrive as a photo and one line of text. That is honestly enough to begin, but four pieces of information move things along much faster. Send us these four things Artwork or a reference. A character sheet, a drawing, or a photo of something similar. Rough sketches are fine — our pattern room works from them every week.A size. Even an approximate height changes the pattern, the fabric consumption and the price.The market. The EU, the US, Japan and mainland China each ask for different testing, and some of it changes the construction.A rough quantity. It decides whether a design is made on one line or several, and it sets the minimum order for that shape. What comes back You get a quotation, a fabric proposal, and a sampling plan. If something in the drawing will not survive a pull test, or will cost far more than it needs to, we say so in that first reply rather than after the sample. Lead time and minimum order are quoted per design. They depend on the fabric, the season and how complex the piece is, so we do not publish a single number that would be wrong half the time.
What you actually get in a first sample
A first sample is not a production piece. It is hand-sewn in our sample room, which means it shows the shape, the fabric and the face, and it is the thing everything later gets measured against. What ships, and what you see firstWe photograph the sample from the front, back, both sides and the base before anything is couriered, so you can comment while the parcel is still in the air. Expect at least one revisionProportions on a drawing rarely survive contact with fabric untouched — an ear that works on paper can flop once it is stuffed. We note what we adjusted and why. Then it stays at the head of the lineOnce you sign off, that sample sits with the production line as the reference. Checks during the run compare against it, not against a photo on a phone.
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