Secrets About Sportswear Functional Fabric Sourcing

“What you wear, how you move, why you feel comfortable—it all starts with the fibers and fabrics that make up your clothing.”—INVISTA

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A mature garment industry often companies with its upstream and downstream supply chain, depite some few premium fabrics comes from Korea,Japan and Italy, most medium or normal fabric manufacturing originated from local.

Sourcing a functional fabric is often the first difficult challenge,especially as new brands or new product lines.What’s the secrets about fabric sourcing specially in China?

  • For stock fabric market, most of them are left from mass production,which means it must be normal/gerneral ones not extremly luxious ones.
 Most of the mass production fabric are made to more than 1000pcs finished garments.The fabric most sportswear agent sourced before is like this kind, its finished garments like Nike,Adidas,Go-Sport etc..
  • For Order fabric market,we could propose our requirements and they have a long development period to make custom fabric.
The common functionality is made throung this way, such as originated from raw yarn or after-treatment with various advanced and superior pharmacy, this is a technical part about the profound knowledge regarding functional fabrics, we will discuss them in the future article.
Let’s back to order fabric,usually it needs  at least 30-60 days for  a long-term development,testing, improvement and testing…Of course,its price is double or serveral times than normal one.
Anyway,no matter the truth are, it all needs your own knowledge about function fabric.
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