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Fashion & Textiles vocabulary · Colours, Prints & Decoration

Colourway

Meaning in fashion & textiles, with examples

/ˈkʌləweɪ/nounCore term

In fashion & textiles, colourway means: One of the colour combinations in which the same design, fabric or print is produced, for example the navy and the khaki version of a jacket.

In Turkish: renk varyantı, renk seçeneği, renk kombinasyonu

How it is used

Designers offer a style in several colourways; buyers drop or add colourways depending on budget and minimums. Each colourway usually needs its own lab dips or strike-offs and has its own code in the tech pack.

Example sentences

  1. The shirt comes in three colourways: white, sky blue and sage.

  2. The buyer dropped the red colourway because it didn't reach the MOQ.

Common collocations

  • three colourways
  • drop a colourway
  • new colourway
  • colourway code
  • lab dipA small piece of fabric or yarn dyed in the laboratory to match a target colour, sent to the buyer for approval before bulk dyeing.
  • printA design applied to the surface of fabric with ink or dye, such as flowers, logos or stripes, rather than woven or knitted into it.
  • strike-offA short test print of a design on the actual production fabric, sent to the buyer to approve colours, scale and quality before bulk printing.
  • MOQMinimum order quantity: the smallest number of pieces or metres a supplier will accept for one order, style or colour.

More terms: Colours, Prints & Decoration

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