Silhouet

Guides for the make side of fashion

Practical guides on tech packs, sourcing, MOQ, and production for founder-led apparel brands.

Tech Packs

What a tech pack is, how to build one, and how to get it in front of a factory.

The Tech Pack Guide: Learn how to make a tech pack: what it includes section by section, real product examples, and exactly how much detail a factory needs to quote and sample.
Send a Tech Pack to a Factory: Learn how to send a tech pack to a manufacturer, write the first email, and structure an RFQ so quotes come back accurate and comparable, not padded.

Finding, vetting, and working with the factories and suppliers that make your product.

Find a Manufacturer: How to find a clothing manufacturer for your brand: what to prep, where to look, MOQ reality, vetting factories, and getting a real quote fast.

Deciding what to make, how much, and when to reorder, without guessing.

How Much to Produce: How much should you produce as a clothing brand? A practical guide to MOQ, first run size, sell-through, and reordering proven sellers without guesswork.
Reorder Strategy: A clothing brand reorder strategy for founders: when to reorder a best seller, how much to restock, and how to pull the original spec without drift.
The Zara Model: Why Zara can redesign mid-season while most brands commit a year out, why proximity was never the real advantage, and the one thing a small brand can copy.

The software layer that replaces the spreadsheet-and-email tangle for a small brand.

PLM for Small Brands: Fashion PLM software for small brands that outgrew spreadsheets but not enterprise tools. Generate factory-ready tech packs, sync Shopify, start free.

How we measure the AI that writes production specs, and why the make side needs shared benchmarks.

AI Benchmarks & Evals: How Silhouet evaluates AI for fashion production: golden sets from real production data, deterministic checks, and factory outcomes as ground truth.

Where the make side meets circularity, and the companies building it alongside us.

eBay CFF 2026 Cohort: Since 2022 the eBay Circular Fashion Fund has backed 30+ circular fashion startups. What it is, how it evolved, and the eight 2026 finalists.

Four questions about how you produce, and about a minute. We read every response personally.