Fabric Sourcing Guides

Patterned knitwear loses money at the marker, not only in the swatch. Here is how to place jacquard, drop-needle, relief and metallic surfaces across a womenswear range.

A knit dress can feel luxurious on a hanger and fail in daylight. This guide matches 140–280 gsm fabrics to dress blocks, then tests opacity, drape and lining before bulk.

A cardigan is usually two fabrics, not one. Here is how to pair a cashmere-feel body with rib trim, keep the cuffs recovering, and calculate width without overspending.

The fabric leaves the mill in good condition and arrives at the customer looking cheap. Here are the four numbers, three sewing settings and one pressing habit that decide whether a cashmere-feel knit keeps its hand.

A 280 gsm bouclé and a 280 gsm jersey are not interchangeable. Here is how weight and structure interact across our 250–400 gsm range, and which article belongs on which womenswear block.

At 2–3% wool content the fibre is not what buyers feel. Here is how loop, transfer and float stitches create the cashmere hand — and which of our 280 gsm articles does it best.

How wholesale cashmere-like knit fabric is priced and supplied from Keqiao: the three order tiers, per-kilo versus per-metre pricing, what low MOQ sampling really buys you, and what to put in a quote request.

Hacci, brushed rib, heavyweight ponte and brushed waffle, compared on GSM, stretch, nap direction and cutting behaviour – plus which construction belongs in a cardigan, a knit dress or a co-ord set.

How to specify, test and source cashmere-touch and brushed knit fabric for autumn/winter womenswear – yarn count, anti-pilling grade, GSM and the four knit structures behind cardigans, knit dresses and sets.

Stock fabric ships in days; custom dyeing gives you exactly the colour you need in weeks. How to decide between them — and how the MOQ and lab dip process actually work.