Built by someone who has run a fabric floor
Most software for this trade is written by people who have never seen a shade break come back as a chargeback. Textile Wizard was built by Siamak Kalhor, who spent four decades in the fabric business before writing a line of it.
Why this exists
Every fabric house eventually confronts the same problem: the software that handles money has no concept of a roll, and the software that handles inventory has no concept of a dye lot. So the real operation lives in spreadsheets, and the gap between the two systems is filled by a person retyping.
That gap is expensive in ways nobody totals. Shade claims. Yardage that walks out as memos. Short ends nobody can sell. Orders promised twice because the number on the screen counted stock already committed elsewhere. None of it appears as a line in the accounts, which is exactly why it grows.
Textile Wizard was built to close that gap specifically — not as a general inventory system with fabric bolted on, but around the roll and the dye lot as the primitives the trade actually works in.
Forty years in the trade
Siamak Kalhor began in marketing before the internet existed, and has spent the decades since in and around the fabric and apparel business — working with distributors, importers, converters and manufacturers across the Los Angeles Fashion District and beyond.
The most sustained of those engagements ran eight years with a single Fashion District fabric store, working through the operational problems that come with growth: stock that outgrows memory, paperwork that outgrows a filing cabinet, and the point at which a second warehouse turns a list into a routing problem.
What that experience changed
Several decisions in this software would not survive a product meeting at a general ERP company, and exist only because someone who has worked a fabric floor insisted on them:
- Available-to-sell is calculated per dye lot, not per style
- Cut selection avoids creating unsellable short ends
- An order spanning two lots is stopped before cutting
- Memo and swatch cuts come off a real roll, not a general adjustment
- Metric receipts convert exactly, to six decimal places on price
- A roll already cut or invoiced cannot be deleted, only adjusted
Each of those is the answer to something that went wrong in a real warehouse.
What we do not claim
Textile Wizard is new, and the honest position is that it does some things well and others not at all. It has no EDI connection to major retail chains. It is not a general ledger, and deliberately hands journals to your accounting software rather than replacing it. It does not manage a mill floor — no machine scheduling, no dye-house chemical recipes.
Those gaps are listed on the comparison page alongside the competitors that fill them. A page claiming to beat everyone at everything is one no experienced buyer believes.