How to Start Tailoring Business, Get Sewing Work at Home

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Tailoring Business is one of the most common businesses around the globe. It can easily be started from anywhere around the world. If you know stitching, embroidery etc. then you can start this work of either teaching to others in your nearby or by collecting orders and making clothes.

The need for stitched clothes is always a basic requirement of everyone. So in today’s article, we’ll explain How to Start Tailoring Business and How to Get Sewing Work at Home in detail.

If you want to know about the information about stitching business then read this article thoroughly.

How to Get Sewing Work at Home

You can easily earn around $300 – $350 (₹25,000 to ₹30,000) per month by doing sewing work from home. Where you can do readymade stitching, gown stitching, suit stitching, leggings etc. In this, you can get customers from various social media platforms such as: Whatsapp groups, Facebook Pages, Instagram promotions etc. Here you can also put Photos Videos of your clothes samples.

This business is a kind of one time investment in tailoring work which will cost you around $350 – $500 (Rs.28,000 to Rs.45,000). Here you will have to buy a sewing machine of around $150 – $250 (₹12,000 to $16,000).

Apart from this, you will also need threads in all the possible colors, machine oil, other tools, etc. The total expenditure of this will cost you around $450 (Rs.42,000). This will even include your sewing machine.

After this, you can start your sewing work very easily by sewing the clothes of people nearby. The work of sewing can easily be done from home.

How to Find Stitching Work

You can get sewing work at wholesale merchants, cloth sellers, civil dress stitchers, uniform stitchers, jeans/ t-shirt shops, etc. You can also visit online clothing brand’s websites like Zara India, Peter England, Being Human Clothing etc. and get work in Work with Us section. After that, you will get the work of stitching T-shirts, pants, jeans pants, lower etc.

Apart from this, you can start sewing work of handkerchiefs, towels, socks etc. and sell them on websites like Indiamart, Udaan and their dealers. You can also contact any textile mill for sewing work that makes readymade clothes. From here, you can get cloth stitching work in bulk.

How to Start Tailoring Business

You can start tailoring business in around $180 – $450 (Rs 22,000 to 37,000). Where you can buy a sewing machine of around $80 – $120 (Rs 7,000 to 9,000), after then sewing accessories of around $25 (Rs 5,000) and a rental shop of around $30 (Rs 6,000) per month.

Along with this, you will also need to get license and registration for your business. Where you have to first apply for Shop License (Gumasta License) to start tailoring shop. If your earning is more than $24,500 (₹20 lakh) annually then in such situation, you will also need GST License this will help you to transact money in the name of your business.

After then, you have to open a Current Account. If you want to take advantage of Govt Scheme or want to take loan in the name of your business, then you have to register your business in MSME where you will get an MSME Certificate.

How to Start Sewing Business

To start a sewing shop, you have to select the shop location properly. Find a location where there is a lot of crowd so many clothes market nearby.

For this, you can select the location either in any big market where lots of people keep on wandering in search of best-fit clothes. Apart from this, you can select the location of your shop near any big mall.

How to Make Money With Your Sewing Skills

To earn money from sewing, you can create your own page and profile account on various social media platforms such as: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin etc.

Note: Use your shop’s name to create your online page. People use these social media apps the most. You can take advantage of this by publishing photos and videos of the pamplets, price and quality of the clothes you have stitched.

This piece of information about your work will reach everyone who uses social media. Then people will start connecting you directly on your page profile. Along with this, you can also collect online orders over social media.

With this, you will not even need to go anywhere and you will get the sewing work from home directly.

How to Earn Money by Sewing

If you stitch at least 3 pairs of clothes daily and you charge $5 – $10 (Rs 600 to Rs 800) for sewing a pair of clothes, then you easily earn around $25 (Rs 2,400) a day.

Just like this, if you keep on sewing 50 to 60 pairs of clothes for a month, then you can earn around $450 – $520 (₹36,000 to ₹48,000) in a month.

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