Bed linen, towels, quilts, curtains, cushions, table linen, blankets and rugs from checked mills in Pakistan, India, Turkiye and China. Tell us the product, the size grid and the quantity.
Bed linen, towels, quilts, curtains, cushions, table linen, blankets and rugs, made to order in Pakistan, India, Turkiye and China. Home textiles are not garments with a different pattern. The bed is a different size in every market you sell into, the cloth is booked before the artwork is finished, and the duty splits inside a single product set, so two items off the same loom can land at different rates. Tell us the product, the size grid and the quantity, and every mill on the shortlist prices that one specification. You pay the mill directly.
First time buying home textiles? The sixteen step guide walks the whole purchase, from working backwards out of your shelf price to the claim window after delivery, including the bed sizes, the tests and the retail pack that a garment process does not cover. Free, and there is nothing to sign up to.
The size of this trade, measured rather than described: the United States imported $13.87 billion across the 39 product lines we track in 2025, down 12.2 per cent on 2024 and down 5.6 per cent across 2023 to 2025. India held 25.0 per cent of it and Pakistan 10.1 per cent. Across 2023 to 2025 China was down 19.4 per cent while India was up 5.4 per cent and Pakistan up 4.5 per cent, and China's share of the total moved from 46.1 to 39.3 per cent. All of it, by product and by supplier country, is on the home textile numbers page
This is the short answer to why home textiles are not run through the garment office. Each of these is a place where a first order goes wrong, and none of them has a garment equivalent.
A king in America, Britain and Europe are three different beds, and the fitted sheet depth differs again. Sizes are not a detail at the end of the specification, they are most of the order. Getting this wrong is not a fit complaint, it is unsellable stock.
Greige cloth is woven to a width and a construction, then dyed or printed. The loom booking, not the print, sets your delivery date, which is why a home textile lead time is quoted from yarn and not from artwork approval.
A filled quilt is 2.00% into Britain. The cover that goes over it is 12.00%. Same bedroom, same shipment, one line paying six times the other. Nothing in a garment order behaves like this.
Home textiles sell out of their own box or PVC pouch, on a shelf, unopened. The pack is designed, costed, sampled and approved alongside the goods, and it is a real line in the price rather than a rounding item.
The duty figures above are read from the published tariff schedules, not remembered. Fifteen home textile lines with the American, European and British rate on each are in the duty table, each with the tariff code it was read from so you can check it yourself.
You are a brand, a retailer or a hotel supplier ordering your own product to your own specification. You know roughly what you want to sell it for and you need someone who knows the mills personally and will tell you when your thread count will not come out of your target price.
You want stock held for you, credit terms from us, a few hundred pieces spread over six colours, or the cheapest possible quote with nobody checking the goods. We do none of those, and saying so now saves us both a month.
Four groups, and each one is quoted off a different pair of lines. If your enquiry carries the two below for your group, a mill can price it the same day instead of writing back to ask.
Duvet covers and sets, flat and fitted sheets, pillowcases, valances and bed spreads, plain, printed or embroidered. Two lines decide the quote. The thread count, with the weave named alongside it, because percale and sateen at the same count are not the same cloth and do not carry the same price. And the size grid, because a set is a cover plus two pillowcases across three bed sizes rather than one line, and the fitted depth changes again by market.
Bath towels, hand towels, face cloths, bath sheets, mats and robes. The number a buyer is really buying is the weight in grams per square metre, because it sets the hand, the absorbency and the cost at once, and a lighter towel is a different product rather than a cheaper one. Then the loop: combed or carded, single or double, zero twist, and whether the border is plain, dobby or woven with your own name in it.
Curtains and panels, cushion covers, runners, placemats, napkins and table cloths. A curtain is ordered by its drop before anything else, because the drop is what makes it fit a window rather than a room, and then by its heading: pencil pleat, eyelet, tape or rod pocket, each of which changes how much cloth the panel needs and therefore the price. Cushions and table linen are quoted off finished size, closure and hem.
Filled quilts and duvets, comforters, throws, blankets and tufted or woven rugs. A filled item is specified by its filling weight and by what the filling is, because that is what a customer feels and what any warmth rating rests on. It is also the group where duty catches people out, since a filled quilt and the cover that goes over it clear under different chapters in the same shipment: import duty on home textiles has both, read from the schedules.
A duvet cover set is not one line, it is a cover plus two pillowcases in three bed sizes. Send the size grid and the piece count per size. If you do not have one, we will send you the grid for the market you are selling into and you fill it in.
Weaving, processing and stitching are often three different companies, and the one that quotes you may own only one of them. We confirm who actually owns which step before a mill is put in front of you. Pakistan, India, Turkiye or China, by product.
One thread count, one grams per square metre, one pack. With the mill's own sample charge, minimum per colour and lead time written in, so the quotes actually compare.
Lab dips, a strike off if it is printed, then a sealed sample you sign. An inspector you pay checks size, weight, shade and the retail pack before the goods ship.
The four numbers everyone asks for. Minimum order quantity, lead time, sample charge and payment schedule are the mill's numbers, not ours, and in this trade they move more than in garments because the minimum is set by a dye lot rather than by a sewing line. Publishing an invented average would be worse than silence. What we do instead: every quote you receive has that mill's own four written in.
It is not one number here either, and in home textiles it is usually larger than the one you were quoted for garments, for a reason that has nothing to do with stitching.
The dye lot comes first, and it is per colour. Cloth is dyed in a batch, and a mill will not set a machine below a certain size. Four colours is four lots, so a thousand pieces split four ways can be four orders the mill says no to, while the same thousand in one colour is an order it says yes to. The loom booking comes second. A thread count and a width are a warp, and a warp is put on a loom for a run, not for a sample order. Ask for a construction the mill is not already weaving and the minimum jumps to whatever a warp is worth. The size grid comes last, and it is the one that surprises people. A duvet cover set is a cover plus two pillowcases, in three or four bed sizes, and each size is its own cutting plan. Spreading a small order across the whole grid is what most often takes it under the line.
So the useful question is which of the three you are hitting, because each has a different way out: fewer colours, a construction the mill already runs, or a narrower size grid for the first order. The mill's own numbers are written into every quote you receive, and quantities and the minimum in the buying guide works through it with the grid in front of you.
Each milestone is something you can see and check. Nothing is due for a stage that has not happened, and every payment goes to the party doing the work, never through us.
You see who is being considered, and which of the weaving, processing and stitching steps each one actually owns.
Nobody is paid anything at this stage.
Shade approved on a lab dip, then a physical piece in your size and weight, signed by you and kept by both sides.
You pay the mill its sample charge, to the mill directly. Nothing is owed to us.
Size after the wash allowance, weight per piece, shade against the sealed sample and the retail pack, all checked before the goods leave.
You pay the mill the balance and the inspection agency its fee, both directly. The mill pays our fee, and only when the goods ship.
The deposit itself, when you place the bulk order, goes to the mill against its pro forma invoice, to a company bank account and never a personal one. The guide's deposit step walks the safe way to pay it.
One sentence each, and only what is true today.
Registration, looms, processing route, stitching capacity, certificates and export record, confirmed before you see the name.
One specification, one size grid, one pack, one term. Different mills quote different things unless you stop them.
If the quantity will not clear a dye lot, or the target price cannot carry that thread count, you hear it in the first reply, free.
A filled quilt and its cover are different chapters at different rates into the same market. We check your code before the order, not after the invoice.
An independent agency, paid by you, reporting to you, checking against the sealed sample before the goods leave.
No stock, no credit, no escrow. You pay the mill, and the mill pays our fee only when it ships.
Bulk goods are inspected by an independent inspection company before shipment, and the report goes to you. We arrange it and you pay the agency directly, so the inspector is working for you rather than for the party who wants the shipment to leave. On home textiles the inspection checks four things a garment inspection does not: the finished size against the grid after the first wash allowance, the weight per piece against the specification, the shade against the sealed sample under one agreed light, and the retail pack, because the pack is what the shelf sees. If an inspection fails, it fails, and we deal with the mill on it.
Including the uncomfortable ones you should ask us. If an agent cannot answer these clearly, that is your answer.
If you are about to work with a sourcing agent, an indenter or a trading house, these seven questions will tell you most of what you need to know. They apply to us as much as to anyone else, so the answer we would give is included under each one.
The most important question, and the one most often answered vaguely. An agent paid by the supplier has different incentives from one paid by you. Both are workable, but you should know which you are dealing with. Ask when the fee is earned too, because a fee on order is very different from a fee on shipment.
Our answer: the supplier pays, and only when a shipment happens. Buyers pay nothing at any stage.
Some intermediaries buy and resell, which makes them a trader with a margin you cannot see, not an agent. Neither is wrong, but they are different businesses and the pricing works differently.
Our answer: no. We hold no stock and never own the goods. You contract with the mill.
If it does, ask what happens to your money if the agent’s business fails while it is sitting with them. This is a real risk that people tend to discover late.
Our answer: no. You pay the mill directly. We never hold buyer funds and we offer no escrow.
The honest answer is never that it will not happen. Ask what the actual process is, who pays for inspection, and who talks to the mill.
Our answer: inspection is arranged with an independent agency and you pay them directly, so the inspector is working for you. If a shipment fails, we deal with the mill on it. We cannot compensate you for goods we never owned, and we will not pretend otherwise.
Worth asking anyone who both advises and sells. It is not automatically a problem. Undisclosed, it is.
Our answer: advisory and sourcing are kept separate. If we advise your company on procurement, you will know in writing before any sourcing fee is earned anywhere near you.
In several markets in this trade this is a live question rather than a theoretical one. You should know the answer before it happens, not after.
Our answer: we do not pay them and we do not accept them. If anyone asks you for one in connection with something we introduced, tell us, and we stop working with them.
An agent who says yes to everything has told you nothing. The useful answer is a specific list.
Our answer: no stock, no credit, no escrow, no routing between India and Pakistan, and no product category we cannot check properly. Today that means two things and nothing else: fibre, yarn and fabric through the raw material desk, and finished garments with their trims through the garment office. Dyes, chemicals and machinery are outside both.
If an agent gives you clear answers to all seven, you are probably in reasonable hands, whether or not that agent is us. If they get vague on question one or question three, slow down.
Before you enquire, the home textile numbers show what your product line is doing and what it is being bought at: thirty nine product lines with their supplier countries, the twelve countries that supply America, what the United States, Europe and Britain each charge in duty, freight per kilo and six origin countries compared
The ones your market actually sells, written out as finished sizes. A king in America, Britain and Europe are three different beds, so a size name on its own is not something a mill can quote against. The size list is most of a home textile order.
The finished size, the weight, the loop and the border, and whether it goes out as a set. Weight is where most towel quotes stop being comparable, because two mills quoting the same size at different weights are not selling the same towel.
Because home textiles are classified by product and by fibre, not by supplier, so a cotton sheet and a polyester cushion cover off the same loom sit in different lines of the tariff. The duty page carries what each market charges, line by line.
Nothing. There is no fee to send a request, no fee to receive quotes, no fee to be introduced to a supplier, and nothing to subscribe to. You are never invoiced by us for any of it. The supplier pays us a success fee, and only if a shipment actually happens. If nothing ships, nobody pays us anything.