Brands & businesses I have worked with

Amber • X&O • RSVP • Arlow • Sage • Ruald Rheeder • Miss Port • Akina Label • Gavin Rajah • Cindy Bam Couture • Cheryl Arthur Fashion (formerly Hip Hop) • Truworths • Craig Port Men • Malgas Collection • Malok • NOAC Collection • Kim Sassen • The Sewing Cafe • Fledge Kids • Lucky Luke • C-4 Flow • Flaunt Active • Enjoy Fitness • Reliance Clothing • Big Heart Company • Catherine Moore • Tallulah’s Boutique • Dune Clothing • Cherry Melon Maternity Wear • Something Sassy • Winnie & Woof • Love Story Collection • Tropika • Mitsubishi • Kentucky • Mainstay • PlayStation • 2010 World Cup • Planet Productions • The Loerie Awards • Moonlighting Studios • Mystic Tribe • Sitting Pretty • O2 / Telefónica Germany • Amber • X&O • RSVP • Arlow • Sage • Ruald Rheeder • Miss Port • Akina Label • Gavin Rajah • Cindy Bam Couture • Cheryl Arthur Fashion (formerly Hip Hop) • Truworths • Craig Port Men • Malgas Collection • Malok • NOAC Collection • Kim Sassen • The Sewing Cafe • Fledge Kids • Lucky Luke • C-4 Flow • Flaunt Active • Enjoy Fitness • Reliance Clothing • Big Heart Company • Catherine Moore • Tallulah’s Boutique • Dune Clothing • Cherry Melon Maternity Wear • Something Sassy • Winnie & Woof • Love Story Collection • Tropika • Mitsubishi • Kentucky • Mainstay • PlayStation • 2010 World Cup • Planet Productions • The Loerie Awards • Moonlighting Studios • Mystic Tribe • Sitting Pretty • O2 / Telefónica Germany •

Pattern Alchemy

The Label Maker

Cape Town Pattern Maker & Garment Development Specialist

You bring the idea. I build the clothes.

Come with an idea. Leave with clothes that can actually be made. Pattern Alchemy is a Cape Town pattern-making and garment-development studio turning clothing ideas into real, wearable and manufacturable garments and ranges.

Start with your situation ↓

Idea → garment → range
Cape Town · South Africa · National

What clients and collaborators say

“A good patternmaker with mature experience—intelligent, stylish, practical and multi-talented. Tatum always completed every project, and I would work with her again without hesitation.”
Cheryl ArthurCheryl Arthur FashionExtracted from a signed reference

Start with your situation

What are you trying to make happen?

You do not need to know the technical words. Choose the sentence that sounds most like where you are now.

Start My Label

I have the idea, but I don’t know the process.

Turn a clothing idea into your first real, production-ready range.

Enter this route ↗02

Develop My Range

I already have a label and need new garments developed.

Build seasonal styles, new silhouettes and reliable patterns for your existing brand.

Enter this route ↗03

Fix My Product

Something isn’t fitting, grading or working properly.

Diagnose the problem, correct the pattern and stop the sampling loop.

Enter this route ↗04

Technical Support

I need experienced technical capacity without permanent headcount.

Senior pattern, fit, grading and production support for brands, CMTs and factories.

Enter this route ↗

From possibility to product

The transformation is the service.

Patterns, grading, samples and technical packs are the mechanisms. The outcome is clothing that can actually be made.

Annotated menswear design sketch for garment development — 01
Idea
The first line: a sketch, reference or clear intention.

Professional clothing patterns drafted on pattern paper — 02
Pattern
The technical architecture that makes the idea buildable.

Pleated garment components being tested during sample development — 03
Make & test
Constructed, handled, tested and refined.

Finished draped garment after pattern and fit development — 04
Ready
A resolved garment or range, ready to move forward.

Turn your design into a real garment.

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Turn one approved garment into a full size range.

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Give your factory what it needs to make it correctly.

The expertise underneath

Senior technical judgment, from first idea to factory floor.

Pattern Alchemy is led by Tatum Kelly, a senior pattern maker and garment-development specialist with more than 25 years of commercial, couture and production experience.

25+years industry experience

4,000+patterns developed

30+brands & businesses

Nationalremote & on-site support

Behind the seams

Before the rail.
Before the sale.

Close view of garment patterns layered over a finished burgundy garment

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Based in Cape Town. Built to travel.

Location is not the barrier.

Local development and fittings in Cape Town
National work by email, WhatsApp and video
Couriered patterns, garments and samples
Remote tech-pack and pattern review
Travel and fly-in support for larger projects

Your starting point can be rough

Bring the idea,
the sample,
or the problem.

Send what you have. We will work out what it needs, what comes first and what a sensible route to production looks like.

pattern.alchemy@gmail.com +27 64 613 1504

Cape Town based · Working nationally and internationally

Garment categories & specialist areas

Ladieswear • Menswear • Childrenswear • Activewear • Golfwear • Swimwear • Lingerie • Maternitywear • Plus-Size Fashion • Bridalwear • Eveningwear • Formalwear • Couture • Ready-to-Wear • Resortwear • Dancewear • Performancewear • Tailoring • Outerwear • Casualwear • Boutique Collections • Commercial Fashion •

Pattern Alchemy

What are you trying to make happen?

Start My Label

Develop My Range

Fix My Product

Technical Support

The transformation is the service.

Idea

Pattern

Make & test

Ready

Senior technical judgment, from first idea to factory floor.

Before the rail.Before the sale.

Location is not the barrier.

Bring the idea,the sample,or the problem.

Before the rail.
Before the sale.

Bring the idea,
the sample,
or the problem.