Tailoring egocentric video: fabric, scissors and sewing machines, from the tailor’s eyes.
Head-mounted footage of Nigerian tailors making real orders: measuring a customer, marking and cutting Ankara and lace, feeding cloth through a treadle or electric machine, then hand-finishing hems and buttons.
Free 10-hour sample first. A person replies within one working day.
Tailoring, step by step.
Small tailoring shops and fashion-design studios in Lagos, often with one to four machines, customers coming in for fittings and rolls of fabric on the walls.
Measuring and marking
Tape-measure readings, tailor’s chalk on fabric, folding cloth to mark both sides at once.
Cutting
Long scissor cuts along chalk lines on a table, often through two or three layers of fabric.
Machine sewing
Both hands guiding cloth under the presser foot while the foot works the treadle or pedal; seams, darts, zips.
Finishing
Hand-stitching hems, sewing buttons, trimming threads, pressing with a charcoal or electric iron, folding.
What is in the worker’s hands.
- Sewing machine (treadle and electric)
- Fabric scissors and thread snips
- Tape measure and tailor’s chalk
- Needles, pins, thread
- Pressing iron
- Ankara, lace, aso-oke and plain fabric
Interactions worth labelling.
- Two-handed control of deformable fabric under tension
- Precision tool use: scissors along a curved chalk line
- Bimanual coordination with a machine running at speed
- Fine grasps: threading a needle, holding a button
- Fold, flip and stack actions on soft materials
Why tailoring footage helps robotics and video models.
Deformable objects are the hard case
Cloth folds, slips and stretches. Robots that handle textiles, laundry or soft packaging need many examples of human hands doing it well.
Long, structured tasks
A garment runs from measurement to finished piece in a fixed order, which suits long-horizon action segmentation and task planning.
Under-represented setting
Most egocentric datasets are filmed in Western homes and labs. African tailoring shops add new fabrics, tools and layouts.
How each clip is recorded and delivered.
- Camera
- Head-mounted smartphone, 1080p at 30 fps (H.264), wide field of view
- Sensors
- IMU (accelerometer, gyroscope) and GPS recorded alongside the video as CSV sidecars
- Your hardware
- Stereo, depth or multi-camera rigs supported if you ship them: we fit them and train recorders
- Label layers
- Curated minutes, 21-keypoint hand pose, action segments, captions
- Privacy
- Faces of bystanders and number plates blurred in every delivered file
- Formats
- MP4 + JSON per clip, IMU/GPS CSV sidecar, LeRobot or RLDS on request
- Delivery
- Weekly batches over signed links, with a manifest and a QA report
- Light
- Shops are bright by day; we ask recorders to sit near the door or window and avoid filming into it
- Customers
- Measuring scenes include customers; their faces are blurred and they agree before any close work
- Machine noise
- Audio is kept but muted on request; the machine sound itself is a useful action cue
Four checks before a minute reaches you.
ID-checked recorders
BVN or NIN plus a live selfie matched to the ID, and a bank account in the same name, before any paid task.
Consenting workplaces
Each workplace is registered in person by a TrustAm field agent, with the owner’s consent and a location fence.
Live capture only
A spoken challenge code, motion sensors and GPS show each clip was filmed live, at work. No camera-roll uploads.
Blurred and reviewed
Bystander faces and number plates are blurred; a trained reviewer approves or cuts every minute before delivery.
Buyers usually ask.
Does the footage show the whole garment process?
Yes, where the order allows. Recorders film full working sessions, so a clip often runs from cutting to finished piece. We segment and label the steps if you order action segments.
Can you film industrial garment factories?
Our pilot is small and medium shops in Lagos. A factory floor can be scoped per order if the owner consents and the workers each join and pass ID checks.
How do I order tailoring egocentric video?
Email [email protected] or use the request form with the tailoring tasks, hours, label layers and format you need. We record a free sample of about 10 hours to your spec first. Pricing is quoted per approved hour after scoping.
How many hours can you deliver?
We are a Lagos pilot collecting to order and scaling. After the free sample, a paid pilot is usually 100 to 500 hours in weekly batches. We do not promise hours we have not recorded.
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Tell us what you need. We send a free sample first.
Email [email protected] with the data type, hours, languages or trades, labels and format. Pricing is quoted per approved hour after scoping.