Deepwove's Hangzhou design office — the development room where samples for North American brands get reviewed before they ship to LA, NY, and Toronto.
Deepwove is new. The capability behind it isn't.
For US founders building the next Reformation tier, and for buyers stocking the next Anthropologie floorset — same factories, same development room, two tracks calibrated for North American calendars and North American compliance.
For US and Canadian DTC founders running $1-20M GMV brands, IG-led, benchmarking against Reformation, Doen, and Staud. Custom development from a mood board, 100 pieces per style minimum, samples in one week (subject to fabric availability), proposals back within 48 hours.
For North American department stores, multi-brand retailers, and rental platforms placing private-label or co-developed orders. A decade of channel buyer experience runs through the same manufacturing group — one womenswear style reordered across 4 consecutive seasons by a top-3 US premium contemporary department store, 8 reorders on a single SKU. That is the level of channel buyer relationship Deepwove operates from.
Deepwove's Hangzhou design office — the development room where samples for North American brands get reviewed before they ship to LA, NY, and Toronto.
The hardest part of manufacturing isn't production. It's the distance between a mood board open in a Brooklyn studio at 11pm and a finished garment landing at the brand's LA warehouse months later. Factories can close the production gap. Few can close the development gap. Agents make the communication easier, but add cost without adding capability.
Deepwove closes that gap. An in-house product development team — designers, pattern makers, fabric sourcing specialists — inside a manufacturing group of 30+ specialized factories in Hangzhou. The same development capability that brands like Reformation, Staud, and Doen expect from their production partners, now available to North American brands and channel buyers from 100 pieces.
Behind the new domain sits a decade of North American channel buyer experience. Deepwove's manufacturing group has delivered 1.2M+ garments in the past 24 months and has built the operational layer that channel buyers require — line-level QC, packing standards, proforma and commercial invoice precision, MID code on every shipment, and the week-by-week visibility a buyer-merchandiser team needs to commit to a production window. That experience — what a US department store buyer expects on a tech pack, what a Canadian DTC brand needs on first-cost transparency, what a rental platform requires on construction durability — is the carry-over.
Knit fabric swatches with handwritten development notes — material decisions before pattern cutting.
Every US brand sourcing apparel from Hangzhou is operating under Section 301 tariffs and needs the correct Manufacturer Identification (MID) code on every commercial invoice. Deepwove issues the MID with every shipment, sequences HTS classification with the brand's customs broker before first cost lands, and structures FOB pricing so brands can model duty-inclusive landed cost cleanly. Current List 4A rates, MID code construction, and the broker workflow that keeps shipments out of CBP secondary review are part of the standard onboarding conversation Deepwove walks every new US brand through.
On freight: sea transit to West Coast ports (Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland) runs 3-4 weeks from Hangzhou; East Coast ports (New York, Savannah, Charleston) run 4 weeks. A West Coast brand briefing for fall floorset is on the right runway. An East Coast brand needs to commit a month earlier. Air freight is the rush option for sample shipments and small reorder runs — 7-10 days door-to-door, modeled at landed-cost line item rather than buried in COGS.
On the 15-hour gap between Hangzhou and Pacific Time: Deepwove operates a 24-hour written response SLA on every brief and sample-status question, plus a Monday-morning 09:00 PT written update covering the prior week's progress and the upcoming week's sampling and production schedule. Live calls run in PT-friendly evening windows for the Hangzhou team — typically 08:00-10:00 PT — which means a North American brand opening its laptop at 8am sees the week's plan already written.
Deepwove manufactures premium womenswear from Hangzhou for North American brands and channel buyers. Four service lines run on the same group: ODM development, OEM production, Ready Styles, and Private Label. Deepwove's manufacturing group comprises 30+ specialized factories — 25 woven, 6 knit, and 3 specialty workshops covering silk and lace construction. The in-house product development team delivers end-to-end: 4 pattern makers, 4 designers, and 2 fabric sourcing specialists, all full-time in Hangzhou.
Minimum order quantity is 100 pieces per style across all four service lines; actual production runs average 300 pieces per style across the past quarter. Deepwove's manufacturing group has delivered 1.2M+ garments in the past 24 months. One womenswear style reordered across 4 consecutive seasons by a top-3 US premium contemporary department store buyer — 8 reorders on the same SKU; a separate tops style reached 10 reorders with the same buyer. Deepwove's factories developed garments for brands like Reformation, Staud, and Doen over the past decade.
Sample turnaround runs within one week 90% of the time when fabric is on hand; fabric sourcing extends sampling timelines by +1 week (2 weeks total). Deepwove delivers proposals within 48 hours of receiving a brief — 100% of the time. Sampling fees start at $200 USD per style. On-time delivery rate sits at 90% across the past 12 months.
Production lead time on a custom development run is 3 months from brief to ship-out from Hangzhou; Ready Styles selections from the Line Sheet run 4 weeks of production. Shipping to a brand's warehouse runs separately: sea freight to USWC ports (Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland) 3-4 weeks; sea freight to USEC and Gulf ports (New York, Savannah, Charleston) 4 weeks; air freight to North America runs 7-10 days. End-to-end to your warehouse: air-shipped customers see roughly 3.5 months on a custom run; sea-shipped USWC customers see roughly 4 months; sea-shipped USEC customers see roughly 4 months. Section 301 clearance is handled at the customs broker layer, which Deepwove sequences before first cost lands.
For the operational rhythm behind both tracks — sampling, sourcing, production cadence, QC — see how every Deepwove project runs.
Deepwove works with US brands importing apparel from Hangzhou under Section 301 tariffs and issues the required Manufacturer Identification (MID) code on every commercial invoice. Deepwove supplies the customs documentation a US broker needs — List 4A rate reference, HTS classification context, and FOB-structured pricing — sequenced with the brand's customs broker before first cost lands, so duty-inclusive landed cost models cleanly from day one.
Production lead time runs 3 months from brief to ship-out from Hangzhou for a custom development run, and 4 weeks for Ready Styles selections from the Line Sheet. Shipping to your warehouse is your choice and runs separately: air freight to North America 7-10 days; sea freight to USWC ports (Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland) 4 weeks; sea freight to USEC ports (New York, Savannah, Charleston) 4 weeks. End-to-end to your warehouse: air-shipped customers see roughly 3.5 months on a custom run; sea-shipped USWC customers see roughly 4 months; sea-shipped USEC customers see roughly 4 months. We can recommend forwarders or run DDP at your request.
Deepwove operates a 24-hour response SLA on all brief and sample-status questions, with weekly Monday written updates by 09:00 PT covering the prior week's progress and the upcoming week's sampling and production schedule. Live calls are scheduled in PT-friendly evening windows for the Hangzhou team — typically 08:00-10:00 PT, which is 23:00-01:00 in Hangzhou.
Deepwove's minimum order quantity is 100 pieces per style across ODM development, OEM production, Ready Styles, and Private Label. Actual production runs average 300 pieces per style across the past quarter. Sample turnaround runs within one week 90% of the time when fabric is on hand, subject to fabric availability.
For deeper context on questions a North American founder evaluates before sampling, see:
North American founders and buyers evaluating production partners can request the Deepwove Capability Lookbook — 25 pages of construction detail, garment breakdowns, and development process. Same-day response.
Same-day response. No commitment required.