Socks and Hosiery
You follow one sock order from the knitting cylinder to the five-pack. You see why the machine, not the pattern, decides which sizes can exist. You see how a cost sheet carrying five different denominators goes wrong. You cost the toe seam three ways. You see why boarding, not measuring, sets the size. And you see how one defective sock multiplies into a failed pack.
Published by Merchandising Academy · First lesson free to read
Course value
What will you be able to do?
Work outcome
You can cost, plan, and inspect a garment by the rules of its own category, and recognise when a technique you learned on one product will quietly fail on another.
Who it is for
Factory, supplier, brand and buying-office teams.
What you will produce
You build a hosiery file for one order. You schedule capacity per machine bank rather than pooling it. You build a cost sheet per dozen pairs, naming every line's denominator. You price three toe-closing routes to a break-even. You take a boarding and tooling decision with its lead time. You review the size range and dye loads. You plan a welt recovery test. And you work out the pack defect multiplier.
Learning format
7 lessons · 0 templates · workplace calculations and decisions.
Lessons
- 01The machine is the size: needles, cylinders and a bank you cannot borrow from🔒18 min
- 02The dozen pair, and the five denominators on one cost sheet🔒17 min
- 03The toe: one seam, three ways to close it, and the money between them🔒18 min
- 04Boarding: the operation that makes the measurement🔒17 min
- 05A size that is a range🔒17 min
- 06Recovery: the number that is not on the measurement sheet🔒17 min
- 07Pairing, packing and the multiplier🔒16 min