AN INTERNSHIP REPORT ON

WOMEN ETHNIC WEAR DESIGNING AND PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT

AT

MITTAL CLOTHING PVT LTD. LTD

BANGALORE

Submitted by

THUSHARA.MK

MD/16/155

Under the Guidance of

Prof. MOHAMMED ANSAR

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

MASTER OF DESIGN

NATIONAL INSTITYUTE OF FASHION TECHNOLOGY

(2016 – 2018)

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 ABSTRACT

Mittal Clothing is a company where the production is done from fabrics to the
garments and based on the customer’s demands and requirements. As a costume
designing graduate I am doing my industry internship in the garment production
unit of Mittal Clothing Company, where the products include all types of ethnic
wears mainly Women Kurtis. I hope by having the internship in this company will
be highly beneficial for my career in terms of practical knowledge. So with respect
to that I am doing my internship program in Mittal Clothing pvt. ltd. Ltd,
Bangalore.

Through this internship I got an image of the apparel production and management
in an industry. My internship report contains an overview of the internship
company and the company activities, tasks and the project that I have worked on
during my internship. Writing this report, I will also describe and reflect my
learning objects and personal goals that I have set during my internship period.

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 DECLARATION

This is to certify that the summer internship report submitted here by is a bonafide
work done by me under the guidance of my faculty mentor Prof. Mohammed
Ansar, Associate Professor, National Institute of Fashion Technology. This
information is purely of academic interest.

Student name & signature.

Faculty name & Signature

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I am grateful to NIFT for providing me an opportunity to do an Internship project

work on “Women Ethnic wear designing and Apparel production Management”. I
express my whole hearted thanks to my Industry guide Miss. Neha Singh for her
encouragement and moral support in organizing my work and giving me valuable
tips for making it presentable.

I am indebted to Prof. Ansar Mohammed, my industry mentor who has guided and
supervised me during the internship period.

I would also like to thank my family and friends who helped me for doing this
project.

Thushara MK

MD/16/155

Master of Design Space

NIFT-Kannur

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 CERTIFICATE FROM FACULTY MENTOR

This is to certify that Thushara MK has completed the Internship project entitled
as” Designing Women Ethnic Wear and Production Management”. She has been
submitting the progress report on time. She is hereby allowed to participate in the
internal and external jury for Degree Project.

(____________________________)

Faculty mentor: Prof. Ansar Mohammed

Date: 03/08/2018

Place: Kannur

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 INDEX

Sr.No CONTENTS Page No.

1 INTRODUCTION 8

2 COMPANY PROFILE 10

3 PRODUCT RANGE 11

4 ORGANIZATIONAL 12
CHART

5 DEPARTMENT 13
FLOWCHART
6 VISION & MISSION 14

7 FACTORY DETAILS 15

8 MACHINERY 16
OVERVIEW
9 HUMAN RESOURCES 17
& GOALS
10 DEPARTMENTS 18 – 27

11 INDUSTRY TASK 28

12 DESIGN 31 – 33
DEVELOPMENT
PROCESS
13 MOOD BOARD & 34
SWATCH CARD
14 FINAL PRODUCT 35 – 37

15 CONCLUSION 42

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INTRODUCTION

Mittal Clothing Pvt. Ltd started in the year 1992 with 20 no. of people in
Bangalore. They are the Manufacturer of Indian Ethnic Wear. Mittal company is
one of the prestigious and conspicuous company providing female fashion
solutions. Indian Ethnic is specialized in ethnic wear collection of Women Wear,
Bridal Wear, Ethnic Suits, Wedding Saris & Lehengas and Suit. The company’s
Ethnic Wears are designed as per the current fashion trends with captivating color
schemes, durable fabrics and alluring patterns. With expert and imaginative
designers, they produce the desired quality Women Wear, Bridal Wear, Ethnic
Suits, Wedding Saris & Lehengas and Suit and supply Women Wear, Bridal Wear,
Ethnic Suits, Wedding Saris & Lehengas, and Suit to global clients.

Supplier of Indian Ethnic Wear in India

The designs manifest the richness of Indian tradition couple with contemporary
designs and style. The fabrics display the ethnicity couple with modernity. Apart
from the conventional and ethnic wear collection; they also have the best of
international fashion women wear of international repute. The company Indian
Ethnic has gained a reputation among all fashion alert generation in the past
decade. Nevertheless the company will reach great heights in coming future and
will bring out the most exclusive Women Wear, Bridal Wear, Ethnic Suits,
Wedding Saris & Lehengas and Suit.

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 Mittal Clothing Pvt. Ltd.

General trading – manufacturer and exporter

Bangalore

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 COMPANY PROFILE

Company: Mittal Clothing

Services: Manufacturing unit, Dyeing & Finishing, Embroidery

Year of Establishment: February 7, 2014

Floor Space: 3,600 Square feet.

Factory workers: 260 – 270

Production and Office Staff – 25(factory)

Brand – Alena

Contact Details

240/410/2, Opp. Reddy School, Roopena Agrahara,

1st Cross, NGR Layout,

Hosur Road, Bangalore

Karnataka- 560068

Phone: (+91)-8064909012

Email: info@mittalclothing.com

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Production Capacity

80,000 to 1 Lakh per month.

Main Customers

Big Bazar, Reliance, Arvind, Max.

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PRODUCT RANGE

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ORGANISATIONAL FLOWCHART

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DEPARTMENT FLOWCHART

Designing

Pattern Making

Sampling

Fabric Department Raw Material Checking

Pattern Department

Cutting Department

Stitching Department

Finishing Department

Shipping

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Vision

The company vision is to provide premium solutions and services to the clients at
par with international standards so as to provide benchmark quality standards and
long lasting performance guarantee assurance. However, care must be taken to
keep a price line within the affordability range of the Indian Market so that people
are able to afford an International Qualitative service at a reasonable price.

Mission

To usher in a Domestic Garment Revolution in India by creating valued customer

base and by partnering with them for longtime.

Target Customers

Age between 20 – 45 years

Services

1. Product – Innovation & Development: With many years’ experience on

material and product development knowledge, Mittal clothing can help to
develop them and provide new solutions.
2. Material - Innovation, Sourcing, and Procurement: We work closely with
our Supply Chain Partners sourcing for the most innovative materials available in
the market, so you don’t have to choose between cost and quality.
3. Manufacturing –MOQ and Speed to multi-markets: We are capable of
handling MOQ and doing stage production to move high quality product faster.

Strength

Run by a well experienced and passionate team Working on ERP (Enterprise

Resource Planning) and lean manufacturing Sustainable manufacturer.

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Factory Details

Formation: Mittal Clothing Private Limited founded by Mr. Bimal Kumar Saraogi
in the year 1974.

Operations: India, Bangalore facility spread over 75,000SQFT. The structure

houses Raw Material, Garmenting, Finishing, and Make up Dispatching, Finished
Stock and Administrative blocks.

Products: Women’s wear

Strengths: Modern Technology, String in Ethnic wear, trained man power & strong
supply chain management team.

High Volume: Reliance Trends, MAX, Big Bazaar

High Value: Lifestyle, Arvind Megamart, WestSide

Technical Advantages

Dyeing & Finishing - All fabrics dyed and processed as per Industry standards.

Finishes- Mercerization, Enzyme, Silicon, Carbonized Treatments.

Prints - All over prints in Pigments, Reactive, Discharge & Digital based.
Accessories - Bangalore based vendors Embroidery

In House Embroidery for newest design and constant innovations.

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MACHINERY OVERVIEW

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HUMAN RESOURCES

90% women workforce.

Basic / Multi skill training, Innovation based production

Social Standards - Transparent wage systems,

About 330+ employees working at current facility.

Board of Management

Mr. Bimal Kumar Saraogi Chairman

Mr. Vineet Saraogi Managing Director

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Goals

 To be one among the top 3 manufacturer in India.

 To increase our manufacturing units from 5 to 10 in the next 5 years.
 Developing new Customers and new categories of existing Customer
Smooth Execution of Orders to provide improved services to Buyers.
 Upholding highest standards of ethical values at all levels, Institutionalizing
systems- approach in all functions of the management.
 Creating an environment for talent to blossom.
 Forging long-term relationships with all the stakeholders.

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 DEPARTMENTS

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

In the garment company the product development is handled by design department.

In Mittal Clothing the designers and the pattern masters together work Inorder to
develop a new sample or product. The sampling department is considered as
product development department where all the designs and product development
are done first.

EMBROIDERY SECTION

The company is using WILCOM software to develop embroidery designs for

products. Embroidery units for production and design development team are
different. The company also used to make designs based on the customer’s
requirement. The Embroidery section is equipped with 15 machines, Sequences
machine 2 and the Total Manpower is 70 which is controlled and monitored by 5
numbers of supervisors. The company also has in house Embroidery Design

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developer’s team, developing newest embroidery designs in line with prevailing
latest trends in the market.

Design Development Team

Embroidery Department

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MECHANDISING DEPARTMENT

Merchandising plays a great role in the apparel manufacturing industry. It is the

business that moves the fashion from designers showroom to retail sales floor and
in to the hands of consumers. It is the internal planning that takes place within a
retail organization in order to ensure adequate amount of merchandise are on hand
to be sold at prices that the consumers are willing to pay to profitable operation.
Following are the responsibilities of merchandisers which gives importance to
them

1. Internal& external communication with the buyers

2. Sampling

3. Checking Accessories & trims

4. Explaining styles to the pattern master.

5. Preparing swatch card and trim card

6. Advising and assisting production department

7. Advising quality department about quality level

8. Mediating production and quality departments

9. Giving shipping instructions and following shipping

10. Helping in documentation department

11. Taking responsibility for inspections and Following shipment.

Costing

The first step after receiving the tech pack is to calculate the estimated cost of the
product which includes all embellishment costs including the embroidery, printing,

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dyeing and the cost of other accessories if needed in production and also the
process loss, the commercial cost (packing, transportation) will be included while
calculating the product cost.

Process flow of Merchandising Department

TECH PACK FROM BUYER

INITIAL SAMPLING AND COSTING

GET ORDER FROM THE BUYER

ORDER CONFORMATION

BUDGETING

SAMPLE DEVELOPMENT

SAMPLE APPROVAL

SHIPMENT

INSPECTION AND FINAL SHIPPING

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SAMPLING DEPARTMENT

Sampling department plays a great role in apparel industry. It is a proto type of a

product to be manufactured in future course of production, also called mock up of
a product and is made to check the design effectiveness and fit of the garment.
Sampling is a set of the procedure follow to produce various sample style. It
contains activities like making of the pattern according to a given measurement
and has to get buyers approvals for sample to place bulk production. This
department directly coordinates with the merchandising department and production
department. Sampling is done to see how the product will look when produce in
bulk and after sample development, if needed the produced sample will be
reworked based on the buyer’s comments.

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FABRIC STORE

Fabric storehouse is the place where the fabric for production is receive or
dispatched for processing. In case of garment production once the sample is
approved by the Managing Director, the necessary accessories including the fabric
will be given for the bulk production from the fabric store. But in some cases, the
company will manufacture fabric for the production based on the customer’s
requirement.

Fabric Department

TRIM & ACCESSORY STORE

Trims store as the name suggests is a department, which acts as a storehouse for
accessories. It is the place where all the accessories required in a garment industry,
are stored. Right from sewing thread, care labels, needles to packaging material
like poly bags and taps etc. all are stored in the accessories store. After receiving

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the accessories the Merchandiser prepares a swatch card containing all the
accessories and their quantity in a cycle. These accessories used in the swatch card
are as per the quality and color given by the Managing Director and the designers.
The accessories are stored in different racks. Whenever the production starts the
accessories required in production are issued to the production department by the
production supervisor.

CUTTING DEPARTMENT

The first stage in the garment manufacturing is the cutting of material into the
necessary pattern shapes given by the pattern master. These patterns are joined to
form a garment when large amount of garment style has to be cut, a lay is created,
which consist of many piles of fabric spread one above the other. Now all the
pattern pieces for all sizes are from this lay. The main objective of the cutting dept.
is the cutting of garment parts accurately and economically and in sufficient value
to keep the sewing room supplied with work. With the help of cutting machines,
the fabrics are cut into different pieces and also the cutting department plays a
major role in fabric consumption.

Cutting Section

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SEWING DEPARTMENT

Production is the act of producing the quality garment as per the requirement of the
buyer quantity obtained by multiplying two quantities to gather by making use
available resources. The production department is in second floor, and the
company provides 180 sewing machines in the production line.

Sewing Department

FINISHING & PACKING DEPARTMENT

After stitching, the garments will be taken to finishing department – a key stage of
garment manufacturing process. Finishing is done to prepare the final garment
according to the quality standards before packing it for shipment. When the
complete garment is packed, a final quality checking will be done i.e., washing
required fabric will be given washing treatment and if necessary re-ironing will be
done and at last it will be given for packing. While packing, the garments are
packed in carton and then sealed and send for shipment.

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Finishing &Packing Department

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 INDUSTRY TASK

Project 1

Designing the Catalogues for Ladies Ethnic Wear.

1. Doing research on the existing catalogue designs available on Pinterest and

also detailed study was done the Mittal’s catalogue designs also.

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2. The next process was to select the theme for designing the Kurtis.
The theme selected was Autumn Winter as it is the upcoming season. So in
order to select the theme some research has been done to get ideas related to
Autumn Winter season regarding colors, embroidery designs, Material,
Color combination, thread selection, Kurtis styles and designs, Customers
expectations etc.

3. After getting approval from the Sr. Fashion Designer for the theme selection,
sketching of the designs was started. And the designs got approved by the
Fashion Designer and then from the Managing Director.

4. I had designed women ethnic wears as a part of my internship under the

guidance of Sr. Designer, Miss Neha Singh.

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Design Development Process

Design no 1 Design no 2

Design no 3 Design no 4

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5. The next process was to select the color combination of fabrics, embroidery
designs etc. The autumn colors are selected for the fabric and also some
colors have been changed based on the suggestions and requirement of the
company. The below figures shows the research process done to select the
colors.

Fig 1.1

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Research on Themes and Colors

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6. Preparation of mood board and swatch card.

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FINAL PRODUCT

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Project 2

Designing Women Ethnic Wears for exhibition sale. Following are the sketches of
the designs.

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Project 3

Work done in Merchandising Department

 Receiving the tech pack which constitutes every minute details of the
garment including construction details, measurement details, fabric details,

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 and embroidery and trim details. As an asst. designer my duty was to co-
ordinate with the buyer for the style.
 Assisting the pattern master in preparing patterns and explaining the styles
based on the buyer’s preference.
 Interacting with the customers about the samples.
 Mail conversation with the buyers for their approval after sample
development.
 Helping in documentation.
 Advising and assisting in production line.
 Preparing fabric swatch card for the products and handling it to the
production supervisor.
 Sample follow up.
 Checking and collecting the daily production status.

CONCLUSION

This study made an opportunity for me to experience, observe and analyze the
activities and vision of an organization. The past two months of my internship have
been very informative for me. Mittal Clothing offered me opportunities to learn
and develop myself in many areas. I gained knowledge about the working system

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of a garment industry. I worked in designing department and designed Women’s
ethnic wear for the company brand ‘Alena’. The internship was beneficial for me
and I’m thankful that I got to experience in learn many things.

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