Products
Knit cardigans
Produksee manufactures knit cardigans in Depok, Indonesia — button-front, cropped, and long-line silhouettes in fine to mid gauge. Production covers knit-to-shape and cut & sew construction, contrast collars and plackets, and full trim sourcing, for export and domestic fashion brands.
The problem
A cardigan is judged at the button band. It carries the wearer's eye, it takes the most handling, and it is the first place a badly balanced knit shows itself — the band ripples, the fronts hang unevenly, and the garment looks cheap before anyone has read the label.
Construction
What we control on a cardigan
Button band tension
Knitted at a different tension to the body so it holds its length instead of stretching over the first season. Band and body are blocked together, never separately.
Placket and buttonhole alignment
Buttonhole pitch is set against the finished band length, not the pattern length, so the spacing survives blocking and the fronts close square.
Collar attachment
Contrast collars — the ones in these samples — are the highest-risk detail on the garment. Linked, not overlocked, so the join stays flat under the chin.
Front balance
Left and right fronts are measured against each other before finishing. A 5 mm difference is invisible flat and obvious on a body.
Specification
Production specification
Send a tech pack and we quote against it directly. The figures below are being confirmed with our production floor.
We quote gauge, minimum order per style and per colour, yarn options, sampling turnaround and production lead time against your specific style — not from a rate card. Send a tech pack and you get all six back, costed, on WhatsApp.
- Gauge range
- Minimum order, per style
- Minimum order, per colour
- Yarn compositions
- Sampling turnaround
- Production lead time
FAQ
Frequently asked
Can you match a cardigan we are already producing elsewhere?
Yes — send the physical garment rather than only the tech pack. We measure it, identify the gauge and yarn count, and knit a counter-sample. Matching from a tech pack alone will get the measurements right and the handfeel wrong.
Do you supply buttons and trims?
Yes. Full trim sourcing is part of OEM production. If you have a nominated trim supplier we work to it instead.
What is the difference between a knit-to-shape and a cut & sew cardigan?
Knit-to-shape panels are knitted to their finished outline and linked together, so there is no cut edge and no seam bulk. Cut & sew panels are cut from knitted yardage, which is faster and cheaper but leaves a seam allowance. The choice changes cost, drape and minimum quantity.
Frequently asked
Related categories
Sweaters & pullovers
An oversized sweater is not a fitted sweater cut larger. The drop shoulder moves the balance point off the shoulder seam, so the whole garment hangs from the neckline instead — and if the neck rib is knitted at the wrong tension, the body pulls the collar out of shape within a season.
Knit vests
A vest is mostly edge. Take the sleeves off a knitted garment and the armhole, the neckline and the front band become almost the whole thing — which is why a vest exposes bad finishing faster than any other knit in a range.
Knit polos
A knit polo is where the factory's collar work is on public display. Tipping, striping, and placket alignment all have to land within a millimetre of each other on a piece the wearer sees in the mirror every time they put it on.
Knit tops
Pointelle and open-stitch fabrics are the hardest thing in a knitwear range to keep consistent. The holes are deliberate, which means every irregularity reads as a fault rather than as texture — and blocking, not knitting, is where they are won or lost.
Knit skirts
A knitted skirt has one job that a knitted top never has: it must not grow. Gravity works on a vertical panel all day, and a rib that recovers beautifully at the cuff of a sweater will let a skirt drop two centimetres by the afternoon.
Zip-up knit jackets
Putting a zip into a knitted garment is a structural problem, not a trim problem. A zip is rigid and the fabric around it is not, so unless the band is stabilised properly the front waves — and a waving zip is the single most common reason a knitted jacket gets rejected at inspection.
Custom & jacquard knitwear
In a jacquard, the pattern is not printed onto the garment — it is the garment. The colour changes are structural, which is why a jacquard cannot be corrected after knitting and why the swatch stage is where the money is actually spent.
Tell us what you are producing.
Send the style, the quantity and the delivery window — attach the tech pack on WhatsApp and we come back with a costed quote, not a brochure.