Tailored Industry pairs industrial 3D knitting machines with software to build seamless knitwear on demand - in Brooklyn, one garment at a time.
A machine hums in Industry City. It is knitting a whole sweater - and no one guessed at the order.
There is no cutting table piled with offcuts. No bundle of panels waiting to be stitched into a shape. The garment leaves the machine already whole - sleeves, body, ribbing, all knit in one continuous run of yarn. A few hours ago it existed only as a line item in someone's online cart. Now it exists as a sweater. This is the ordinary miracle Tailored Industry has spent since 2017 turning into a business: clothes that are made because someone wanted them, not because a factory guessed they might.
The apparel industry runs on the opposite logic. Brands commit to thousands of units months before a season, ship them across oceans, and pray demand shows up. What doesn't sell gets marked down, warehoused, or destroyed. Tailored Industry looked at that arrangement and asked a quietly radical question - what if the factory simply waited for the order first?
Give our customers what they want, when they want it.
The core technology is not new to fashion - luxury houses have used industrial 3D "wholegarment" knitting machines (from makers like Shima Seiki and Stoll) for years. A machine constructs a complete garment in a single piece, no side seams, no cut-and-sew, no leftover fabric scrapped on the floor. What Tailored Industry built around it is the interesting part: a proprietary software platform that turns a room full of these machines into a service any brand can plug into.
Connect a Shopify store, upload production-ready styles, and orders flow straight to the factory. A two-person label and a national retailer use the same machines. The minimum quantity is one.
Brands develop production-ready knit styles - private-label or their own - from the sample shop.
The Shopify app links the storefront to the Brooklyn factory with real-time order tracking.
An order triggers a machine. A whole seamless garment is knit on demand - no inventory sitting in a warehouse.
The finished piece drop-ships direct to the customer. Nothing was overproduced.
Seamless knitwear knit to order with zero minimums - sweaters, dresses, beanies, cardigans, scarves, knit ties and more.
Turn a concept into a production-ready style, with knitwear expertise on hand to make it manufacturable.
Garments are knit and shipped as orders arrive, so brands carry no inventory risk.
A dedicated app connects your store to the factory for on-demand production and live order status.
Reportedly read a biography of Andrew Carnegie at twelve and never quite got over it. Studied Applied Economics & Management at Cornell's Dyson School and ran a collegiate apparel wholesale business before founding Tailored Industry to rethink contract manufacturing.
Spent five years programming 3D knitting machines for luxury designers - the hands-on expertise that made an on-demand knitwear factory more than a slide deck.
No minimums, no barriers - production adapts to your needs.
Tailored Industry serves fashion brands of every size - from contemporary startups that could never hit a traditional factory's minimum, to established apparel companies. Reported clients include performance-wear brand Ministry of Supply, American Trench, and Allen Edmonds. The Brooklyn facility reportedly produces roughly 1,000-2,000 units a month, and the team carries a collective 100-plus years of knitwear experience alongside the software engineers building the platform.
Alex and Kady Tschopp start Tailored Industry to reinvent how brands and factories transact.
Featured in Sourcing Journal for its ambition to revive US knitwear; early clients on board.
Profiled for elevated athleisure "3D-knitted right in Brooklyn."
Reported $1.2M seed raise to scale on-demand production; ~$2.48M total funding reported.
Return to Industry City, where that sweater is now folded and boxed, heading to the one person who asked for it. In the old arrangement, it would have been one of thousands - most bound for a stockroom, a markdown rack, or worse. Here it is a party of one. That is the change Tailored Industry has been quietly making: not a faster version of fashion's guessing game, but a factory that stopped guessing. The hum you hear is a machine that only starts when someone has already decided they want what it's about to make.