Tirumalai Garments

If you walk down Mangalam Road in Karuvampalayam, you’ll eventually see our place at 128/1. Tirumalai Garments has been sitting on this stretch of road for quite some time. It’s a busy area with a lot of noise from the bikes and trucks passing by outside. Inside, it’s mostly the sound of the stitching machines going. We have a few long tables where we cut the fabric and sort through the different sizes. The lighting isn't the brightest, but we know where everything is. Mangalam Road gets really crowded during the lunch hour, and sometimes the dust from the road comes inside if we leave the front open too long. Our staff mostly lives nearby, so we all know each other well. We don’t have a big front office or anything like that; it’s just the work floor and a small space to keep the finished bags. Some days the fabric deliveries are late, and we just sit around talking about the weather or the local news until the truck pulls up. It’s a simple setup. We don’t try to act like we’re some big corporation. We’re just here working on the orders as they come in. The floor gets covered in thread scraps by five o’clock, and then we sweep it all up and start again the next day. It’s just how things go here in Karuvampalayam. It is a very normal way to spend a workday.