Quality and confidentiality
How client designs and project information are protected, alongside what is checked before shipping.
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Your designs, your brand, and what stays confidential
Client-exclusive designs, patterns, technical files, unreleased samples and project material are treated as confidential — not shown publicly and not passed to other clients. What that means in detail comes from the agreement behind your project.
Confidential by default
What stays private
Client-exclusive designs, sketches and reference material; patterns, blocks and size charts; technical and craft files; unreleased samples and development work; and any embroidery or decoration drawn for a client are all treated as confidential.
They are not shown publicly and not passed to another client. That holds whether or not a project proceeds to production, and whether or not it is billed as a confidential project.
Ownership
Newly developed work
Rights to newly developed designs, patterns and related results generally rest with the client once the agreed development fee is paid. The exact scope is set out in the project agreement, which is what defines the line between what is yours and what is ours.
The studio keeps using its own existing craft techniques, general methods and base blocks — that is simply how it works — but it will not disclose or copy client-exclusive designs or project material.
Your brand
Public display and brand marks
Client projects are not used for public display by default — not on this website, not in a portfolio, not on social media. A finished project does not automatically become a portfolio piece.
Where a project calls for your brand marks, you provide the evidence that you hold the rights to them. If that evidence is not in place, the brand-related work waits rather than proceeding on an assumption.
The limits of this page
Where this varies by project
The exact point at which rights transfer, whether editable source files are included, how long files are retained and when they are deleted, and the confidentiality terms themselves all come from your project agreement — not from this page. These are the questions to settle in writing before work starts.
This page is a plain description of the studio's position, not a template and not a substitute for the agreement. The confidentiality terms themselves are agreed per project, and they belong in writing.
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Related answers
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When development is worth commissioning, what it produces, and how it connects to patterns and samples.
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Settle the terms before the work
Tell us what has to stay private and what you need to own. We will confirm the scope, the files and the confidentiality terms in writing before development begins.