Meet The Makers: William Our Wovens Maker
MEET WILLIAM - OUR WOVENS MAKER
Established for over 30 years, William offers extensive sustainable fabric sourcing and development. This small ethical operation has excellent workmanship and attention to detail, essential for our soft woven product. We're confident this is the beginning of a new and blossoming relationship.
William's factory has Sedex Smeta social compliance auditing in place. His printing mill is Oeko Tex 100 certified.
What we love about William: Established for over 30 years, William offers extensive sustainable fabric sourcing and development and has worked with us to develop two of our newest fabrics, Lenzing Ecovero Crepe and our Lenzing Ecovero Crinkle.
Strengths: Experts at digital printing, can achieve very bright colours and tones.
Fave collection: Dylan
Fave fabric: Lenzing Ecovero Crinkle
MEET OUR FABRIC MAKERS
Mr. Zhang has worked for over 20 years as the digital printing factory director and is responsible for the overall production schedule and quality control.
What is your favourite part of the day?
I am most happy when we receive a new order! That means we are going to have more popular prints and fashion collections produced by us.
What do you enjoy most about your job?
I enjoy our production teams ability to actively challenge ourselves and successfully solve problems. It makes me happy to learn something new every day.
Mr. Sheng has been working at our digital printing mill for more than 10 years. He is an operator for digital printing and does strike-offs for bulk printing.
What is your favourite part of the day?
The most relaxing part of the day is coming home from work and spending time with kids and take a walk in the park or watch TV before going to bed.
What do you enjoy most about your job?
I love how different all of our printing patterns are and how many different prints we produce in a day. I love the different botanical styles we are currently printing and we love to guess what kind of style is suitable for each print.
Ms. Sheng has been working at digital printing mill for more than 10 years. She is a technician in charge of drawing print artworks.
What is your favourite part of the day?
The most relaxing part of the day is going home and cooking. I love cooking as much as I love painting, and sometimes dance to music in a plaza with my neighbours.
What do you enjoy most about your job?
I am proud that I have created so many beautiful prints and other popular designs that are shipped overseas and have been successful. I am grateful as a clothing designer that I can bring these prints to life!
MEET OUR FACTORY WORKERS
Zhu is the owner of Suzhou Rui Shun factory. She learnt sewing skills at the age of 20, which progressed to managing the whole production workshop at the age of 25. In 2003, she started her own garment factory that has been cooperating with us since 2005. Zhu’s greatest happiness is her family, who are all involved in running the factory together. Her husband is the finance manager of the factory, and her son is also involved. On weekends she enjoys taking her grandchildren to the park and loves to go on walks with her family. Her greatest hope is for her family to be healthy and for her two grandchildren to do well in primary school.
Qiu is from the local area of Suzhou and has been working with Suzhou Rui Sun factory for more than 10 years. In 1983 he started his journey of learning sewing skills and patterns from a master. From the years of 1990 to 1996 he went to Shenzhen to be responsible for garment patterns. After returning to Suzhou, Qui has been working as a pattern maker and is greatly experienced in production and pattern making. In his free time he loves being with his two children and doing activities such as fishing and riding around the lake with his family.
Wu is from the local Suzhou area and has been working with Suzhou Rui Shun factory for more than 10 years as a sewing line leader. In 1993 he started to learn sewing skills and then started his work in a clothing factory in 1996. During this time he wanted to challenge himself working in other jobs in construction and as an accountant. However he found that he enjoyed working in clothing production the most, and started working as a sewing line leader in Suzhou Rui Shun factory. Wu has two daughters who he loves to cook for and values spending time with his family. His hope is that his daughters work hard, learn more, and challenge themselves whilst they are young.
