Respect gaining for cut-and-sew industry
To spur cut-and-sew manufacturing in Colorado, it’s time to get back to basics
December 10, 2020
As COVID-19 spread across Colorado in the spring, sewing skills were suddenly in high demand.
Outdoor manufacturers like Melanzana in Leadville, Phunkshun Wear in Denver, and Osprey’s pack repair team in Cortez pivoted from their usual catalog to face masks, as did numerous home-based sewers.
It was a shot in the arm for Colorado’s cut-and-sew industry, which has withered as manufacturing largely migrated overseas over the last 40 years. But can the mask boom sustain a broader comeback for the sector?