Knitwear Sourcing FAQs

Industrial soft-flow jet dyeing machines require a minimum volume of water and fabric to circulate without knotting (liquor ratio 1:6 to 1:8). The smallest production dye vat holds 50 kg to 100 kg of fabric, yielding approximately 250 to 500 t-shirts. Running a 10 kg batch inside a large jet machine causes blotchy, uneven dye uptake and exorbitant utility waste.

Smart ways to optimize production volume:
1. Fabric Sharing: Use one 100 kg dyeing vessel of heavyweight cotton fleece to produce 150 hoodies and 150 matching sweatpants in the same Pantone color.
2. Stock Fabric Programs: Utilize the factory's pre-dyed inventory colors (typically black, white, navy, heather grey, off-white) which allows smaller order minimums per style.
3. Graphic Differentiation: Dye 500 units of one black t-shirt base and split them into 2 distinct screen print artworks (250 units each).

For custom knitted and dyed orders, bulk manufacturing takes 45 to 60 calendar days following Pre-Production (PP) sample and lab dip sign-off. If using in-stock factory fabric colors, lead times can compress to 25–35 days.

Cargo departing South Indian container ports (Tuticorin / Chennai) typically reaches:
• Western Europe & UK (Felixstowe / Rotterdam / Hamburg): 20 to 26 days.
• US East Coast (New York / Savannah): 28 to 34 days.
• US West Coast (Los Angeles / Long Beach): 32 to 38 days.
• Australia (Melbourne / Sydney): 16 to 22 days.

You can either courier a physical benchmark garment that represents your desired fit to the factory for reverse measurement engineering, or utilize our downloadable tech pack template from our Resources section to fill in key measurements.

Avoid vague feedback like "make it look cooler." Provide numerical adjustments relative to the tech pack: "Increase chest width by +1.5 cm across all sizes; raise back neck drop by 0.5 cm; tighten sleeve cuff rib circumference by 1.0 cm." Photos of the garment on a live fit model with clear measurement annotations are immensely helpful.