JDM MODE — RISING SUN LIVERY
B.F.TECH · NIFT PANCHKULA · 2024–2028

Apparel production student weaving together pattern making, merchandising and quality control from loom prototypes to production floors.

PIXEL·WOVEN v2.0
01 · About

Fabric first, always.

I'm a Bachelor of Fashion Technology student at NIFT Panchkula, focused on the production side of apparel, the part where ideas become garments. I've spent time inside a fabric processing unit, built my own working loom from scrap, and I'm endlessly curious about how things get made efficiently, sustainably and well.

Off the production floor, I'm teaching myself finance and admiring Japanese engineering - the JDM kind.

BASED INIndia
FOCUSApparel Production & Merchandising
CURRENTLYB.F.Tech · Building every semester
STATUSOpen to internships
02 · Education & Experience

The timeline so far.

2024 — 2028

Bachelor of Fashion Technology (B.F.Tech)

National Institute of Fashion Technology, Panchkula

Studying apparel production - garment construction, pattern engineering, textile science, and the systems that scale a sketch into thousands of units.

2026 · 2 weeks

Textile Intern - Fabric Processing Unit

Industry Internship

Hands-on exposure to fabric processing operations - observing dyeing, finishing and quality workflows from grey fabric to finished goods.

From the floor.

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03 · Skills

The toolkit.

Pattern Making
04 · Garment Anatomy

A hoodie, assembled by scroll.

Every garment is a kit of parts. Keep scrolling - the panels find their seams.

BODY FRONT ×1 POCKET ×1 HOOD ×2 SLEEVE ×2 RIB HEM ×1 · RIB CUFF ×2
CUT PANELS READY — SCROLL TO SEW
401 CHAINSTITCH
05 · Featured Work

Made by hand.

STYLE NONT-001
SEASONSEM 2 · 2025
CATEGORYEQUIPMENT PROTO
STATUSSAMPLE APPROVED ✓

Portable Wooden Weaving Loom

Designed and built a working, portable loom prototype entirely from recycled wooden material - then wove a fabric sample on it to prove the mechanism. A study in frugal engineering, sustainability and woven structure.

BILL OF MATERIALS
Recycled wood · cotton warp yarn
CONSTRUCTION
Hand-cut frame · manual shedding
OUTPUT
Plain-weave fabric sample
COST
≈ ₹0 — 100% reclaimed
RECYCLED MATERIALSPROTOTYPINGHANDWEAVINGSUSTAINABILITY
OPEN FULL TECH PACK

Build log · 8 semesters.

SEM 01 · 2024

Foundations

Textile science fundamentals, fibre to fabric, and first studio coursework at NIFT.

SEM 02 · 2025

The Loom Project

Built a portable wooden weaving loom from recycled material and wove a working fabric sample on it.

SEM 04 · 2026

Industry Exposure

Two-week textile internship inside a fabric processing unit, dyeing, finishing and QC workflows.

SEM 05 · 2026

Apparel CAD & Pattern Engineering

Digital pattern making, grading and marker planning.

SEM 06 · 2027

Apparel Internship

Target: a garment export house - line balancing, operation breakdowns and real production pressure.

SEM 08 · 2028

Graduation Project

A production-focused capstone. Topic loading… watch this space.

06 · The Lab

Play with production.

One hoodie, seven operations. Watch a garment travel the line — each station shows its SAM (standard allowed minutes).

✂️
CUT
0.8 SAM
🔥
FUSE
0.4 SAM
🪡
SEW
6.2 SAM
TRIM
0.5 SAM
♨️
PRESS
0.9 SAM
🔍
QC
0.7 SAM
📦
PACK
0.5 SAM
TOTAL GARMENT SAM: 0.0 MIN

This is a tiny digital version of my semester-2 loom. Pick a weft color and throw the shuttle, each pass weaves one row over the warp, just like the real thing.

0 / 9 picks woven

Marker efficiency, visualised. Pattern pieces nest onto the fabric width to minimise waste, watch the lay plan assemble and the efficiency climb.

0%MARKER EFFICIENCY

SPI checker. Stitches per inch decide seam strength and look. Slide to see the seam change - too few stitches and the seam grins open; too many and the fabric puckers.

10 SPI
BALANCED - STRONG SEAM ✓
07 · Beyond the Loom

Other obsessions.

📈

Finance

Currently learning how money moves - markets, investing fundamentals, and the business side of fashion.

🏎️

JDM Culture

A deep appreciation for Japanese domestic-market machines - precision engineering you can hear. (Click this card. Trust me.)

🧵

Making Things

If it can be built, prototyped or woven by hand, I'm probably already sketching it.

08 · Contact

Let's weave something.

Open to internships, collaborations and conversations about production, textiles or torque curves.

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