Every Nookie product is different and takes a different route, but the core qualities of our design process are always the same.
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| Left - Circa 1991 through to Right - Current Day. |
Nookie was extablished in 1991 in the front room of a small cottage in Clearbrook in Devon with a public red telephone box on the road as its business contact number. It now occupies a busy factory over the border in Cornwall where we make a substantial percentage of our product range. We have always made products in the U.K and we like to choose British whenever possible.
We strongly believe in customer-led design and the development of all of our products comes from feedback of our customers, retailers and our team of product testers; the riders.
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| Hand designed patterns for a perfect fit. |
All of our products start their life in our design studio in the Nookie factory.
They often start with discussions about either a new or re-development of a product concept, be that from a team rider, an outdoor activity centre manager or our internal team, then the doodling starts.
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| Hand sketching concept products. |
Those doodles then get devloped into workable patterns. There's a number of ways this happens. If it's to be made on our U.K. production line we start with some concept sketches and block patterns. Our expert pattern drawer develops these patterns hand in hand with the sketches to make sample products. Those samples are reviewed regarding form, function and ease of construction before being streamlined for our production line.
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| Samples cut by hand. |
Quality
control is a fundamental part of our manufacturing process. We are
proud of the high quality construction and finish of our garments. You
only need to turn one of our products inside-out to see the flawless
colour matched waterproof taping to re-assured of our British made
quality.
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| Every Drysuit Pressure Tested. |
We
don't just test one in a batch, we test every single one. From our
experience, if there is a small leak in a seam it's a minor
imperfection and cannot be accounted for statistically, so we don't
trust just a visual inspection we choose to pressure test every
single suit to be confident in every drysuit that leaves our factory.
We're the first to admit that not all of our products are, or will be,
made in the UK. The simple fact is that some of the technologies and
expertise used in the manufacture of our highly technical specialist
equipment are more advanced overseas. We make sure we choose the best
producer for each of our products, wherever they are in the World. All
of our products are designed in Cornwall to make sure function and
quality are at the forefront of our range.
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