Textile workshop in France

Les Ateliers des Mouettes are our textile workshops, located in Laval in Mayenne. They employ about thirty mechanics of clothing. Every day, they put all their technical know-how and skills at the service of ecological and personalized textile projects.
Our textile workshops are the first sewing workshops to have obtained the GOTS certification in France. Organization, adaptation and precision are the key words of Ateliers des Mouettes. They constantly guide our manufacturing processes.

How to find and choose your garment workshop?

Finding and choosing a clothing workshop is not an easy task.
It is quite legitimate to feel a little lost when starting to make clothes or accessories. Our precious advice will help you to see more clearly in the textile industry. Choosing a textile workshop implies to define your needs beforehand and to be ready to create a trustworthy and long-lasting relationship with it.
In a textile workshop, nothing is left to chance.

Clearly define the needs

It is important to proceed in order. The approach is to clearly define your needs. Are several textile products going to make up a single range? Are they manufactured simultaneously or completely separately? What human skills do you need? The production requirements (deadlines, costs, quality...) must be identified.

Depending on the type of product

Do you prefer local, made in France fabrics? Do you prefer virtuous fabrics, with less environmental impact? Recycled materials? Will these products ultimately reflect your brand DNA? The production process will be defined accordingly. It will allow you to know which machine is used at which time, which gesture is carried out...
Finally, the number of prototypes and quality tests carried out can help you to make a choice for your workshop.

Depending on the cost imperatives

Here, the challenge is to produce as quickly as possible while minimizing losses. The definition of the cost price and selling price is often the most delicate part in the development process. The "made in France" prices require a deeper reflection to ensure the sustainability of your project on the long term.

Depending on the time constraints

The production times announced by a textile factory must correspond to your needs in every respect. Ask about the production load of the garment factory you wish to use.

Find a workshop near your place of business

Start by polling your friends and family to find a textile workshop near you. Colleagues, friends and professional networks will be happy to help you in this quest and share their contacts and experiences with you. Textile trade shows are opportunities to meet quality manufacturers on the same day.
You will be able to ask them directly about their commercial practices and the minimum orders required to work with them. Moreover, the samples presented will allow you to project yourself more easily in the realization of your textile project.

Look for a partner rather than a subcontractor

Working with a textile workshop is like starting a collaboration. It is in everyone's interest to build a long-term relationship that is a win-win situation. Working with an experienced or human-sized workshop will allow you to grow and gain in agility. You will benefit from a personalized follow-up and will thus increase your skills. The textile workshop will share its expertise with you, to professionalize you while ensuring a quality of confection.

Why work with Les Mouettes Vertes?

For over 15 years, Les Mouettes Vertes has been working in the textile industry. As a committed manufacturer of ecological textile products, we accompany young designers and large companies in the manufacture of accessories and ecological and personalized clothing.
We work mainly with GOTS certified organic cotton. The choice of raw materials is essential because it conditions the quality, the durability, the environmental impact and the traceability of your product. Les Mouettes Vertes' business is tailor-made clothing.
Les Mouettes Vertes accompanies companies from various sectors in their transformation towards an eco-responsible model.
At Ateliers des Mouettes, we aspire to work in close collaboration with our customers. The making of make-up remover wipes, tote bags, personalized kits, cloth masks and menstrual panties requires specific equipment and versatile hands. In order to remain competitive, we regularly modernize our machinery.

100% made in France

The place of manufacture must be local and favour short circuits. We are committed to providing regular training to our seamstresses so that they perpetuate French textile know-how. This unique French know-how is used to meet all customer requirements. This know-how must be exercised within the textile factories if we do not want to lose them.
At Ateliers des Mouettes, we realize your orders by ensuring a textile production 100% made in France.

Production in medium and large series

Our extensive machinery allows us to manufacture garments and accessories in medium and large series. Our flat stitchers, our overlockers, our button presses, our overlappers, our flat presses as well as our expert hands realize for you medium and large series of each of your pieces.

You are a young designer and at the beginning of your company? The production of small and medium series will allow you to limit the risks and to advance as serenely as possible.
We give you the possibility of concretizing your ideas and of carrying out each stage of manufacture while profiting from the professional assistance of our teams.

Personalized support from A to Z

A tailor-made accompaniment is proposed to you to carry out the ecological and personalized textile project which is dear to your heart.
Our customer culture is based on listening, accompaniment and mutual trust.
Our interlocutors can help you so that your textile projects see the light of day and so that the qualitative result is up to your expectations. Our teams are reactive. Thanks to our on-site production capacity, you benefit from personalized support from A to Z throughout your development.

Contact us for more information!

To learn more about our textile manufacturing activity in Laval : www.lesateliersdesmouettes.fr