Ben from Michael Miller fabrics visited us at our office today. He is on a business trip around Asia visiting customers and we set up a meeting with him a few weeks ago because we are very interested in starting to sell their fabrics in our shop. Ben showed up with a huge suitcase full of fabric swatches of their current collections and the newest designs. We could even have a look at the not yet released fabrics for the coming months. Their fabrics are amazing, very bright, colouful fabrics, high quality material and great selection of different designs. Lots of our customers asked us to get more fabrics for boys and luckily Michael Miller does have a big choice of boys prints. After Ben showed us all their fabrics we invited him to have a traditional Chinese lunch, also called “Yum Cha” in Chinese, including some delicious steamed dumplings, seafood and other good food. It was the first time for Ben coming to Hong Kong and to eat in a traditional Chinese restaurant. He was very impressed by the size of the restaurant and he liked the food very much. Altogether it was a great first meeting and definitely a good start doing business together.

Ben showing me Michael Miller fabrics

We bought a professional scanner for our office for scanning products, fabric swatches, catalogs, books, magazines and so on. Our old scanner isn’t good enough for high quality pictures, so we invested the money into this new toy: Microtek ScanMaker i800

professional scanner

Today we received new fabric swatches from Kokka in Japan. They are the newest designs from September 2009. Kokka releases every month new designs, therefore we get every month new swatches delivered and based on them, we place our orders.

Sorry about writing so much about Kokka in the last time but we are selling them so well since we started working with them together and we get updates about new designs often. I just want to share all these exciting news with you. There will be blog posts about our other products coming next, I promise!

Kokka fabric matryoshka animalsKokka fabric cute bear in the park

Kokka fabric black kitty

Our Kokka fabric wholesale catalog is finished and ready for all our wholesale customers now. Only companies get access to this catalog, so please contact us by email and we will send the Kokka catalog to you. The orders are shipped either directly from Japan or from our office in Hong Kong. Below are some more cute Kokka fabric swatches.

Kokka fabric Alice in Wonderland

Kokka fabric Christmas deer

Today we had an appointment with Kokka who is the leading fabric manufacturer in Japan. They have lots of really cute and beautiful fabrics, so I contacted them in Japan and introduced our business to them. They were very interested in working with us together, so they set up a meeting with us in Hong Kong. Luckily, they have a Hong Kong office, so we didn’t need to fly to Japan for the meeting (although I would have really enjoyed a trip to Japan haha). We met with the boss from Japan, who is a really nice and friendly guy and his staff member, who his responsible for their Kokka customers. They showed us a lot of fabric and I was so excited. All these super cute, very detailed and amazing quality fabrics. I was immediately convinced that these fabrics are perfect for our shop and our customers. Everyone will just love them. The print and the colours are so detailed and clear, just incredible. So I chose all my favourite designs and they will prepare the swatches for us and send them by courier to our office tomorrow. I can’t wait to show these fabrics to our customers and order some fabric for our shop as soon as possible.