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A room with a long table and three pairs of scissors.

This page is the closest we come to introducing ourselves in print. Most introductions, of course, happen at the door.

Origin

Why we opened.

Novablox began in 2020, when our founder — a tailor of nineteen years — left a department-store cutting floor in Bukit Bintang to make clothes for individual people instead. The first room was three doors down from the current one, with a paper pattern table he'd built himself and a kettle.

The first commission was a single charcoal three-piece for a friend's wedding. The second was a navy suit for the same friend's father. By the end of that year there were forty regulars on the books and a permanent address.

The room

Three pairs of hands, one fitting at a time.

The shop is small on purpose. We are three master tailors, one apprentice, and a long walnut table. There is no production line behind a curtain and there are no off-the-rack racks. If you visit during opening hours you'll usually find one of us cutting, one pressing, and one in conversation with a client.

That structure means we take a finite number of new commissions each month — about fifteen across the team. We'd rather turn a few people away than rush a single buttonhole.

What we believe

The four things we won't compromise.

Hand-cut patterns

Every pattern is drafted on paper from your measurements. We don't reuse blocks between clients.

Floating canvas

Hand-padded haircloth canvas is set into the chest of every jacket. No fused interlining, anywhere.

Hand-sewn finishing

The buttonholes, the under-collar attachment and the pick-stitch on the lapel are sewn by hand.

Lifetime aftercare

Bring the garment back any time it needs a press, a re-line, or a button replaced. We started it; we look after it.

The cloth

Where the fabric comes from.

We hold open accounts with five mills across Italy, England and Japan, plus two specialist linen weavers in Penang and one silk supplier in Kuala Terengganu. Most clients begin with our house worsted — a 280g super 110s wool woven for us in Biella — and graduate from there.

If you are looking for something specific (a closed-out vintage suiting, a black mohair-silk for a tuxedo, a hopsack for the tropics), tell us at the consultation. We can usually source it within four weeks.

The neighbourhood

Why Damansara Perdana.

We chose Vista Damansara because there is parking, because the lift is quiet, and because the corridor to our door doesn't smell of food court. The room itself faces north-east, which means soft daylight from late morning onward — the best light to judge a cloth under.

You'll find us a short drive from the LDP, the NKVE and the SPRINT highway. From central KL it is about twenty-five minutes outside of peak.