Materials
COM or workroom-sourced fabric?
Both paths can work. The important question is which path gives the project the clearest control of suitability, availability, quantities, documentation, schedule, and accountability.
Fabric responsibility begins before it reaches the cutting table.
Material selection affects more than appearance. The project must know whether the fabric is appropriate for the treatment, available in the required quantity, consistent with the schedule, supported by the required documentation, and delivered in usable condition.
Tri-Tex can work with COM, subject to suitability, documentation, quantity, lead time, and receipt-condition review. When the specification allows it, Tri-Tex-sourced fabric is often the cleaner path for selection support, availability, material accountability, and single-source coordination.
COM
Owner- or designer-controlled material.
The project retains sourcing responsibility while the workroom verifies received quantity, condition, identification, and apparent suitability before release.
Tri-Tex sourced
Material coordinated with fabrication.
Selection, availability, ordering, receipt, accountability, and production timing can remain under one connected scope.
Either path
Document the handoffs.
Required yardage, usable width, repeat, direction, dye lot, testing, lead time, overage, freight, damage, and remnants should not remain assumptions.
Questions to answer before release.
- Who is ordering, tracking, receiving, and approving the material?
- What quantity calculation and overage basis will govern?
- What documents and product properties are required?
- How will shortages, damage, flaws, or mixed dye lots be handled?
- Does the fabric arrive before the production slot requires it?
- Who owns unused goods, remnants, and replacement stock?
Coordinate the material