About Apparel Wiki
Apparel Wiki is an online knowledge hub dedicated to the real world of garment manufacturing.
It is founded and curated by Rain Chen, a hands-on garment production master with years of factory-floor experience.
This is not a place for vague theory or marketing slogans. Apparel Wiki focuses on practical, structured knowledge that comes directly from production lines, pattern rooms, QC labs, and day-to-day communication between factories, buyers, and brands.
Our goal is simple:
Turn scattered, hard-to-access factory experience into clear, searchable knowledge that anyone in the apparel industry can understand and use.
What Are We Trying to Do?
In garment manufacturing, the most valuable knowledge is often “hidden”:
- Pattern makers know why the same style behaves differently in different fabrics.
- Production lines know why the same stitch code can look and perform very differently.
- QC teams know how serious shrinkage, torque, shade variation, and poor finishing can become in bulk.
But this experience is usually:
- Locked in the head of a few senior technicians,
- Buried in internal SOPs and inspection reports,
- Hard for newcomers or non-technical teams to really understand.
Apparel Wiki exists to bridge that gap.
We want to document and explain these lessons in a way that:
- Newcomers can use as a learning path,
- Practitioners can use as a reference,
- Brands and designers can use to communicate more effectively with factories.
About the Founder: Rain Chen
My name is Rain Chen. I have spent many years working inside garment factories and with export customers.
Over the years I have:
- Worked on the production floor, as an operator, line leader, and in workshop management.
- Cooperated with trading companies and brands on sample development, PP samples, fitting comments, and bulk approvals.
- Handled crisis cases: out-of-tolerance shrinkage, twisting knits, color issues, unstable sewing operations, and more.
- Trained newcomers who were eager to learn but could not find a reliable, structured source of Chinese and English apparel manufacturing knowledge.
Apparel Wiki grew out of these experiences.
I don’t want to write content that just “sounds expert.”
I want you to:
- Avoid typical mistakes,
- Make decisions based on real production logic,
- Talk to factories and clients with more confidence and clarity.
Let’s Learn and Build Together
Apparel Wiki is not meant to be a one-way channel where I lecture and you listen.
It is meant to grow together with everyone who works in this industry.
If you:
- have a problem case you can’t solve,
- keep getting the same complaints from customers,
- or simply have a topic you’d love to understand more deeply,
you’re welcome to reach out and share it.
Your real questions may inspire the next article on Apparel Wiki.
