About Peter

Thread Domain is a one-person workshop. The one person is Peter. The Print-and-Sew process is a way of putting hand-drawn pattern work onto wearable cloth without ordering huge minimum-quantity runs. The workshop makes custom shirts and jackets to order, with the occasional pair of boots when the queue allows.

How the workshop started

Print-and-Sew started as a side project. Peter had been making clothes for friends for years, but the constraint was always the fabric. Off-the-shelf prints get repetitive; commissioning a custom textile run meant thousand-yard minimums. Digital fabric printing changed the maths. A length of cloth could be printed for one shirt, or for one small run, with the pattern designed at the workshop and printed by a textile mill that handles short runs.

From there, the rest of the workshop arranged itself around the printed fabric. Pattern-making, cutting, sewing, finishing, all in-house. Two industrial sewing machines, a serger, a coverstitch, a steam press. The boot-making came later and is on a different rhythm.

The Print-and-Sew process

1. The conversation. What kind of piece, what kind of pattern, how big a print you want it to feel like, where you'd wear it.
2. The pattern artwork. Hand-drawn, scanned, repeated, sometimes colour-shifted to match what you described. A small mock-up gets sent before anything is printed.
3. Print. A length of fabric, printed by a textile mill in heavyweight cotton, organic cotton sateen, or a midweight twill, depending on the piece.
4. Cut and sew. From your measurements (provided over email, or in person if you can get to the workshop). Most pieces take a week to two weeks of bench time after the cloth arrives.
5. Finish and ship. Press, label, photograph, post. Sea or air depending on where you are.

About the boots

Boots are a different story. Peter learned the basics from a boot-maker friend over several years and has been making one or two pairs a season ever since. Hand-lasted, hand-welted, leather sourced from a small tannery that's been doing it the same way for a long time. The queue for boots is long. They take about three months from foot tracing to finished pair, and only two slots open per season.

What the workshop doesn't do

• No off-the-rack stock. Every piece is made for someone specific.
• No huge runs. The largest single order is usually four shirts.
• No subscriptions, no "drops", no scarcity marketing. The queue is the queue.
• No knockoff prints. The pattern artwork is original to the workshop.

Get in touch

Email [email protected] with a sentence or two about what you're after. Peter reads every message and tries to reply within a couple of days, though occasionally a deep workshop week pushes that out a bit further.