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Clementine Collective: technical and sustainably produced soft toys “The Seamless Source team has been incredible to work with since day one in my journey. I had been working with another manufacturer and was not satisfied with the work, and when I found Seamless Source they connected me to an incredible production team. We were able to work through sampling and many technical details together to perfect our knit doll line. Our dolls have many complex details, and Seamless Source was able to ensure the quality of my product was flawless from the tech pack, to the production, and to quality checks. Without Seamless Source, my business would not be where it is today and I highly recommend their entire team.” – Heather Mirosav, founder of Clementine Collective – Designed to make a difference, Clementine Collective is a childrens soft toy brand specialising in ethically made sustainable knit dolls with the focus on inspiring love and joy, while making a positive impact on the world through helping a global cause. These dolls are lovingly created using natural materials that are non-toxic, to make them safe for new born babies and children to cherish. They give the pleasure of play and support the love for learning to children in need worldwide. Founded by Heather Mirosav, the brand strongly believes in three key values; ethical production, sustainable sourcing, and supporting global education – as part of their mission. Working with Seamless Source, we helped them stay true to their values and the brand successfully created their high quality products to exactly how they envisioned.  The inspiration behind Clementine Collective The idea for Clementine Collective came when Heather wanted her own daughter to experience the joy of owning a knit doll, like she had as a child with a doll knitted by her grandmother. After managing to source someone local to knit her vision, a mass of fascination ignited when people caught sight of the doll – everyone wanted one for their own child.  It was this interest that prompted Heather to pursue the idea of spreading love and learning through dolls; as the incentive to make the world a better place for future generations was important to her. Positive impact With the desire to help children learn, play and have happiness, Clementine Collective are partnered with School the World. Their mission, together, is to make education accessible for every child – as it is reported that ’72 million primary school children will experience learning poverty’ (Clementine Collective). Each Clementine doll will help provide scholarships for children worldwide to stay in education and positively transform their future.  Having these brand values set and product ideas drawn up, they were ready to take the next steps. As this is a complex and technical product to create, they just needed to find the right manufacturer to deliver their concepts. How Seamless Source made this happen Clementine Collective reached out to Seamless Source after they had experienced failed attempts through other suppliers who couldn’t fulfil their desired product range. Our industry expert team was unfazed by the challenge and understood the complexity of what was needed – giving the brand confidence in our services. Wanting to do our best for Clementine Collective, our operations team swiftly developed a clear supply chain strategy to get the project on the road. Ensuring Heather could follow the process with ease, thanks to our order management system within the Seamless Source platform.  Seamless Source also has an extensive list of sourcing connections around the globe so we can choose and match the most suited suppliers to even the greatest technical tasks. With tech packs already completed prior to joining our service, we selected one of the best manufacturers in Sri Lanka to create the product.  Our team quickly discovered the tech pack specifications were not proportionally correct and showed this through a made sample to the brand so they could understand the issues. In order to resolve this, we communicated our expert opinions and a new sample based on these was developed at Heather’s request – this was a success.  Working closely with the brand, a few more sample rounds were made to get the first knitted doll perfect; checking into the details of every aspect in the doll’s appearance, functionality and safety features, since the product is intended for all age ranges. Including improving the choices of materials, lace pattern and design for the doll’s fashion. Once Heather was happy, bucket dyes were tested to imagine what the dolls would look like in their desired colour swatches and materials were finalised; opting for the Premium Natural Cotton and Hypoallergenic Polyfill filling. It was crucial for the brand to have this product embody everything that they envisioned. Even while the order was confirmed, further adjustments were requested to change the doll’s body pattern and our team successfully made negotiations to make this happen. Once the pattern was changed, samples were submitted within weeks and production was approved to start.  Successful results The development of this knit doll set the ideal blueprint and due to our seamless service, Clementine Collective began developing two other knit dolls – even before production had been completed for their first doll – having the same body construction, but with different shades, dresses, shoes and hair designs.  Happy with the results, these dolls are projected to be a successful order. It has been a joy to work with Heather and we’re proud to have created these wonderfully intricate soft knit dolls for her fantastic brand. Seamless Source will continue to work closely with Clementine Collective and we wish them great success ahead of their launch on 14th February 2023 – don’t miss out! You can check out Clementine Collective and pre-order their desired knit dolls here: http://clementinecollective.com/

Mambloom: the modern and conscious maternity wear Founded by Tatiana Rosario in West London, Mambloom is a maternity wear brand which focuses on products that women can feel confident in wearing as their body changes during motherhood.  Mambloom offers a comfortable and modern, sustainable solution to mothers wanting stylish and fashionable clothing during and after their pregnancy – for anytime, anywhere. Its key features are to be functional, comfortable, stylish and durable. It is through the development of modernising classic designs where Mambloom filled the gap of sustainable and functional maternity wear. Creating products specially designed for caesarean surgery recovery – having extra comfort for the lower abdomen in mind to help with healing – and also tops for breastfeeding – to give extra confidence to breastfeed. Collaborating with Seamless Source, the brand was able to create its vision to aid women in search for modern maternity wear. The story of Mambloom The founder, Tatiana, herself knows too well of the struggles she encountered during her own pregnancy; for her, she found it difficult to find clothing that was comfortable, especially during exercise, and also clothing that had more colour choices – branding what she could only find to wear as “old-fashioned”. After speaking to other mothers who shared their own troubled experiences, she intended to create a collection that covered these areas in maternity wear that lacked – and so Mambloom was born. The brand name “Mambloom” possesses beautiful connotations; “Mam” meaning for mama (Spanish for mother) and “bloom” meaning to flourish – as pregnant women do. Creating a conscious community As Mambloom’s journey progressed, its values deepened. Initially thinking about mothers, which will always be its core value, the brand developed further key focuses – such as to build a community where women can come together and share their experiences. The other key value is to “create a better future for us and our children”. Mambloom is focused on reducing harm to people and the planet, with sustainability being important to the brand. Its biodegradable packaging consists of compostable packaging and the garment itself uses sustainable fabrics.  How Seamless Source helped Mambloom Maternity wear is difficult and complex – making it a technical product to produce. Mambloom struggled to find manufacturers that could create these products at a technical level because they had a lack of knowledge and also had trouble with the quantities needed.  Tatiana discovered Seamless Source and joined our platform with the hope of finally finding a reliable source who could carry out her requests. Seamless Source supported Tatiana from the very beginning and swiftly understood her production needs.  Our industry expert team secured a clear supply chain strategy, which could easily be followed on our seamless sourcing platform, taking Mambloom from the very beginning through to the end of the production journey. First starting with tech packs to ensure the products matched Tatiana’s vision.  With finalised tech packs, we could move onto sourcing the ideal high-quality fabrics that were needed for comfort, stretchability and durability to suit the products’ intended purposes. After trying out many different types of fabric, we discovered Bamboo Cotton and Recycled Nylon Spandex were the best options to use – as well as fitting Mambloom’s sustainability values.  As Seamless Source are connected to global suppliers specialised in technical wear production, we easily found the perfect suppliers who could swiftly move onto the sampling stage and at the desired quantities.  It was key to Mambloom to have a faultless fit with every product. In particular, the breastfeeding tops are non-conventional products and technically advanced – opening in the front to benefit feeding mothers. So a lot of live fittings and small adjustments took place to make sure everything was absolutely perfect. Once Tatiana was happy with all the samples and finalised the sizes, bulk production could begin. Proceeding with three styles – Maternity & Postnatal Leggings, Nursing Bamboo T-shirt and a Nursing Bamboo Tank Top. Success While maintaining good communication throughout, thanks to our dedicated team members and instant messaging via the Seamless Source platform, Tatiana has since repeated her orders in better quality, higher quantities and different colour patterns to meet her growing demand. Available on the Mambloom website: https://mambloom.com/ and Instagram @mambloomclothing. Seamless Source are proud to be part of Mambloom and their journey, as we help in supporting to scale-up the business. It is a dream to work with Tatiana and we loved guiding her through this entire process to create a functional and comfortable, sustainably conscious maternity activewear collection. May we continue to guide more brands with their production journeys.

Monty The Lion – Baby’s got a brand new Baby Grow! Initially a children’s non-fiction book series, Monty The Lion creates innovative and practical children’s wear – Wipe and Go Baby Grows – in support of their illustrated books.  These revolutionary baby grows are the first of their kind and focus on the practicality that’s needed in child care. The clue is in their title, ‘Wipe and Go’, they eliminate the need for constant changing of clothing. Parents won’t know how they managed without them! Keeping in theme of the book, their merchandise offers a selection of prints featuring characters from the stories. After the brand expressed their ideas and collaborated with Seamless Source – they could get their innovative products created. First came the book – Monty The Lion’s adventures As well as the brand name, ‘Monty The Lion’ is actually the main character for their non-fiction children’s book series; The Move, Monty Goes Boating and, soon to be released, Monty Goes Camping, all written by Carol Otieno.  Carol was inspired in discovering the positives in scenarios that often would be found stressful for young children, such as life changes, and so wanted to encourage adaptability. She hopes children will be able to associate themselves with the characters. Revolutionary baby wear Behind the brand, Carol herself had experienced her own need for a practical solution to evade constant changing of her babies’ clothes, and thus found a gap in the market. Her own children suffered with gastroesophageal reflux from 3 to 12 months and often found the experiences exhausting. Gastroesophageal reflux, frequent regurgitation and vomit, is actually quite common in babies and so there is a need for products to alleviate the stress for both child and parent. They came up with the concept of clothing that can be easily wiped clean without the need of changing, in order to help themselves and others in similar situations. In their research, this had not been done before and so are excited about getting into the market. As well as catering to the need, the brand thought it would be fun to introduce this baby and kids wear range in support of their book and to strengthen their characters’ presence. With their concepts at hand, they just needed guidance in how to create their product range. How Seamless Source stepped in Monty The Lion reached out to Seamless Source through recommendation after being approached at a trade fair whilst promoting their childrens books. They were looking to develop their innovative childrenswear ideas, which had not been done before, into reality and Seamless Source was the best place to handle their creative vision.  After initial meetings were completed to understand what they needed and our process explained. Our trusted and expert team across the globe worked promptly to develop the best supply chain strategy for the brand, giving them further confidence in our operations.  Monty The Lion already had tech packs of their Baby Grow, so we could move straight onto the sampling stage. With our global sourcing connections we were able to pair the brand up with one of our partnered manufacturers. As this was a new concept to them, a completed sample was sent to fully understand what was needed and the manufacturers set to develop new working samples that matched their concepts. The brand also had sourced their fabrics externally prior to joining our service, this meant sampling could swiftly get well on the way. Beneficially, our platform’s order management system gives us the ability to tailor our services to exactly what our brands’ need; thus saving time as well as money by not having to carry out services which have already been completed in-house or externally.  Altogether we created sixteen samples for the brand – including the Baby Grow sample in seven different prints showcasing selected characters from their books, as well as bibs and baby hat samples to extend their collection. Made with their chosen materials Printed Single Jersey and Waterproof Taffeta, which is perfect for the products’ intended purpose. Along with snap fasteners for easy changeability. Our team issued quality checks but realised the constructions were not feasible for bulk production, therefore a new sample with production friendly features was effectively developed, while keeping to the same aesthetic look and design of the product. Elements of this collection were technical but Seamless Source are very capable of making it happen with the addition of our combined expertise and partnerships.  Once the brand was pleased with their samples, they were confident to display these within trade fairs to build strong interest into both their brand and their products. As they foresee their demand – bulk production will be ready to commence. The results We’re so happy that we were able to help Monty The Lion create adorable childrenswear in the form of an innovative easy-cleaning baby grow – in aid of possible cases of gastroesophageal reflux in babies and to help parents – as well as themed baby hats and bibs to expand their collection. They will surely brew up a storm of interest when presented at trade fairs within the UK. Both the books and childrenswear together work as an absolute powerhouse – strengthening the brand awareness. We await a successful launch for Monty The Lion’s merchandise in support of their children’s books, as they rightly deserve.  We’re excited to continue to support them and see them grow. You can check out and pre-order the ‘Wipe and Go’ Baby Grows at www.montythelion.com/baby-grows, as well as see all their other wonderful merchandise.