Notes from the workroom
Fabric, fit, embroidery and the decisions behind every uniform. Written by the people who cut, stitch and dispatch it.
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Latest entry3 Nov 2026 · aaoms Team · 2 min read
Kathmandu Valley delivery: what reaches when
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The archive
Read →31 Oct 2026 · 1 min
Ordering scrubs from Pokhara, Chitwan and Biratnagar
A good ordering process should not depend on living in Kathmandu. What we changed so it does not.
Read →28 Oct 2026 · 2 min
Dressing a Nepal hospital through the year
Terai heat, hill cold, monsoon damp and air conditioned wards. One uniform standard has to survive all four.
Read →26 Oct 2026 · 2 min
What a hospital tender needs before you quote
The five questions that decide whether a uniform quote is real or a guess.
Read →23 Oct 2026 · 2 min
Stitching Nepali names in Devanagari
Devanagari is not a Latin font with different letters. Stitching it badly is easy, and obvious.
Read →21 Oct 2026 · 1 min
The layers of a Nepal OT
Surgical green is the colour everyone recognises. The uniform underneath it is where the comfort is won or lost.
Read →18 Oct 2026 · 2 min
Why nursing colleges order in batches
A college intake is the cleanest uniform order there is, if the measurements are collected properly.
Read →16 Oct 2026 · 2 min
A colour chart for Nepal's clinical floors
Navy in one ward and navy in another are not always the same navy. A shared reference fixes that.
Read →13 Oct 2026 · 1 min
Cash on delivery in Nepal, and why we keep it
Most of our buyers do not want to pay a stranger online first. That is a reasonable position, and we work with it.
Read →10 Oct 2026 · 2 min
Sending a uniform order to a hill district
The last twenty kilometres are the ones that decide whether a delivery works. Plan them first.
Read →8 Oct 2026 · 2 min
From our Dhanusha floor to a ward in Surkhet
One order, two provinces, eleven days. A walk through what actually happens between the cutting table and the ward.
Read →5 Oct 2026 · 1 min
What the price of a Nepal scrub actually covers
Two scrub sets at very different prices can look identical on a screen. The difference is in the parts you cannot see.
Read →3 Oct 2026 · 1 min
Ordering around Dashain and Tihar
The festival calendar is the single biggest scheduling fact in a Nepali supply chain. Plan backwards from it.
Read →30 Sept 2026 · 1 min
What Nepali nurses ask before the first order
The same six questions come up again and again. They are all about the twelve hour shift, not the photograph.
Read →27 Sept 2026 · 2 min
Monogramming a doctor's name in Nepali script
A name on a lab coat is a small mark. Getting the script right is not a small job.
Read →25 Sept 2026 · 1 min
Shipping aaoms from Nepal to the Gulf and beyond
We are a Nepali manufacturer, not a reseller. That changes the shipping story in ways worth understanding.
Read →22 Sept 2026 · 1 min
Customs and paperwork for an international uniform order
What we send with the parcel, what you may need to do at your end, and why the declared value matters.
Read →20 Sept 2026 · 2 min
A complete solution, from fabric to final design
Most medical wear is sold as a finished garment. We start one step earlier, at the fabric, and finish one step later, at the design you actually wanted.
Read →17 Sept 2026 · 1 min
Converting Nepal measurements for an international team
Centimetres, inches and three different sizing conventions. The conversion is the easy part.
Read →14 Sept 2026 · 1 min
Running an embroidery approval across time zones
Nepal runs on UTC plus five forty five. That odd fifteen minutes is a real scheduling constraint.
Read →12 Sept 2026 · 1 min
What international buyers should know about Nepali embroidery
The craft is old here and the machines are modern. What that combination means for a logo on a uniform.
Read →9 Sept 2026 · 1 min
Air freight or courier for a two hundred piece order
The crossover point is lower than most people think, and the deciding factor is rarely cost.
Read →7 Sept 2026 · 1 min
Paying for an overseas order from Nepal
Nepal is not inside most international payment rails. Here is how an overseas buyer actually pays us.
Read →4 Sept 2026 · 2 min
Demand any design. Our designer builds the set.
You describe the garment you actually want, in your own words. A designer turns it into a specification, and you get the full set before anything is cut.
Read →2 Sept 2026 · 1 min
A sample kit for an overseas hospital pilot
Before a hospital commits to five hundred sets, it should hold the fabric in its hand. Here is what we send.
Read →30 Aug 2026 · 2 min
GSM, blend, and why a scrub pills at month four
Two numbers on a fabric label explain most of what goes wrong after a few months of washing.
Read →27 Aug 2026 · 1 min
Stitch density: what thread count actually changes
A logo stitched at the wrong density looks bold on day one and turns into a solid block by month six.
Read →25 Aug 2026 · 1 min
The five checks before a uniform leaves our floor
Every order passes the same final inspection, whether it is twenty pieces or five hundred.
Read →22 Aug 2026 · 2 min
Lab coats: shoulder, sleeve and length
A lab coat is judged in the first ten seconds. Three measurements do almost all of that work.
Read →20 Aug 2026 · 2 min
Plus size is a pattern, not a multiplied medium
Adding centimetres to a medium pattern makes a bigger garment. It does not make a better fit.
Read →17 Aug 2026 · 2 min
Why we digitise a logo before the first stitch
The step customers never see is the one that decides whether the logo looks sharp.
Read →14 Aug 2026 · 1 min
Colour fastness: what ten washes tell you
A uniform is washed more often than almost any other garment. Colour is where that shows first.
Read →12 Aug 2026 · 2 min
The fitting solution: exact fit, not an approximate size
Most people accept a scrub that almost fits. Almost is exactly where the problem lives, and it is fixable.
Read →9 Aug 2026 · 1 min
What unisex really means in a scrub
Unisex is a useful compromise, not a universal fit. Knowing where it works saves a lot of returns.
Read →7 Aug 2026 · 2 min
A wide range of colour, held to one standard
Navy, wine, black, heather grey, forest green, maroon, mauve, ceil blue, pastel lilac, galaxy blue, hot pink, eucalyptus, olive, military green. Range is easy to offer. Holding it is the hard part.
Looking for something specific? The studio answers sizing and customisation questions directly.
