hawaii-based engineering firm:

 

For years I served as lead freelance patternmaker and sample sewist for cooling vests designed for military and industrial applications for Oceanit. The high-quality patterns and samples I created for this project outperformed expectations at every stage and led to continued SBIR funding of close to $3 million, currently slated in 2023 for field trials and physiological tests.

I worked as part of a team of scientists and engineers to not only create a product with aesthetic appeal, but I also pattern made a garment that “delivers 3x the body heat extraction of market-leading cooling garments.”

 

services

patterns
sample sewing
production  support
Tubing must be stitched within a tolerance of +/- 3 mm, or else the tube can be nicked & render the entire sample useless.
Patternmaker marking tubing pattern onto pattern piece using a paper pattern.
Patternmaker Lizzy stitching tubing onto a lining using a sewing machine
Stitching a curve of tubes onto a liner
Stitching a tube onto a liner in between rows of tubing
Stitching a tube with a small curve onto jersey fabric.
Sewing machine stitching tubes onto fabric

The COOLING VEST: 19°N Hawaii

Founded in Hawai’i in 1985, Oceanit is a “mind to market” company that creates disruptive technology from fundamental science. Oceanit remains headquartered in Honolulu, Hawai’i and from the islands, they practice the unique discipline of Intellectual Anarchy: re-imagining innovation to break the bonds of normal and solve the impossible- delivering technologies to the market that impact humans and society.

Oceanit cooling vest sample front on form
Oceanit tubing cooling vest sample back on form

These samples are sewn with the highest care & quality.

The tubing is sewn with a tolerance of +/- 3mm.

Otherwise the needle can damage the tubing and render the sample useless.

Of the 50 full samples I’ve sewn, I’ve nicked only 1 tube on 1 garment.

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