How to use this manual

Read it in order, or jump straight to the chapter you need:

01

New to tees?

Start with the Style Map and GSM. Those two decisions shape most of the garment before you touch print.

02

Costing a run?

Jump to Costing, MOQ & Sourcing, and read a quote line by line before you reply to any factory.

03

Know your style?

Go to the Style-Spoke Guides, one silhouette, cut to shipped, with the grading that makes it read intentional.

04

Fixing a problem?

QC & Defect Troubleshooting names the cause and the prevention for each failure on thin knit.

Style Map, GSM, Cotton Quality & Core Construction:

Before print or costing, you pick a weight, a yarn, and a seam. These eight chapters decide most of the tee.

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T-shirt manufacturing, quick answers

Every guide here comes out of our own cut-and-sew floor in Sialkot, Pakistan.

We run the knitting-in, the cutting, the sewing, and the QC in-house rather than brokering it out, which is why the advice is about what happens on real machines and thin jersey, not what a catalogue claims.

It depends on the fabric, the number of colors, and the decoration, which is exactly why MOQ gets its own chapter.

As a starting point, our low-MOQ program runs from 50 units per style, and the MOQ guide explains how each choice moves that number.

Yes. Heavyweight, boxy jersey is a large part of what we make, and it changes the pattern, the seam choices, and the cost.

The heavyweight and GSM chapters walk through what a 240-280 gsm boxy tee actually involves and what it should cost.

Yes. Our sampling process is built to develop a tee from a sketch, a reference garment, or a rough idea if you don’t have full specs yet, and the costing and quote chapters show you exactly what to send us.

Screen, DTF, discharge, embroidery, and the standard jersey decoration methods are handled in-house or under our own QC, so the print is controlled on the same floor as the sewing.

The decoration chapters cover what each method holds up to on thin knit.

From approved sample to shippable units, expect a realistic window rather than a single-number fabric lead time; knitting, dyeing, decoration, and QC all sit inside it. The lead-time chapter breaks the timeline down stage by stage.

On the floor · Sialkot

Written by

Faizan Ahmad

Chief Apparel Technologist & Head of Manufacturing, Gibben Clothing · Sialkot, Pakistan

Faizan leads production at Gibben Clothing, a cut-and-sew streetwear manufacturer in Sialkot, with 8+ years turning raw yarn into retail-ready hoodies, tees, bottoms, jackets, tracksuits, and headwear. He doesn’t just write about clothing; he works the floor, so every guide here is grounded in real fabric behavior, QC standards, and production data from live runs.