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The gap between a sample you love and a production run you can sell is where most first product launches fail. It is rarely the factory's fault and rarely deliberate — it is the specification that was never written precisely enough to be wrong.
Materials, measurements, tolerances, construction, finish, packaging and the acceptable variation on each. Anything unspecified will be decided by the factory in the way that is cheapest and fastest, and they will be right to.
Each stage answers a different question, and skipping one moves its risk into production where it is expensive.
A factory's minimum usually reflects a fabric mill's minimum or a mould setup cost. Understanding which constraint drives it tells you whether it can move — and if it is a mould, it cannot.
Your patterns and specifications are everything needed to make your product without you. Ownership of tooling and what happens if the relationship ends belong in the agreement at the start.