Our Makers: Bernard

Bernard and his team, our knitwear makers

OUR KNITWEAR MAKER.

Bernard is our incredibly talented Knitwear Maker based in Guangdong. Bernard and his team specialise in beautiful lightweight intricate, organic cotton knits suitable for our warm Australian climate.
High quality craftsmanship and excellence in garment production meant that Bernard was encouraged to start his own business in 2009. We began working with Bernard in 2017 to create our Brooklyn, Taylor and cult Cardamon shorts and, more recently our popular Gardenia knit range.
Bernard is audited annually by BSCI, their last audit was on the 16th September, 2020

What we love about Bernard:
Incredibly talented knitwear maker.
Specialises in ligh-weight, intricate organic cotton knits suitable for our warmer climate.

Strengths:
Investigates and develops a wide range of sustainable fibres for our knits, including organic cotton, hemp, non-mulesed wool. Small-scale. So, very adaptable to work with us.

Fave collection:
Gardenia

Fave Fibre:
Super soft, lightweight trans-seasonal organic cotton
 

Bernard is audited annually by BSCI
Collections Knitwear, Sugar, Venus
Tier One Traceability
Factory Owner Bernard
Location Dongguan, China
Auditing Body BSCI
Audit Rate C, Acceptable
Age of Factory 30 years
Youngest Employee 25 years
Gender of Employees 42 male, 52 female
Last audited 3/11/21
Last Arnhem Visit February 2019
Tier 2 Traceability We have visited the factory
Tier 3 Traceability Weyet to visit the yarn mill
Tier 4 Traceability GOTS certified
Tier 5 Traceability GOTS certified

 

Last updated April 2022

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