Hoodie Manufacturer & Sweatshirt Factory

Our minimum for custom hoodies is 150 pieces per style and per colour: a hoodie in black and heather grey counts as two minimums, 300 in all. Each colourway is its own dye lot, so 150 pieces in each of three colours costs more per piece than 450 in one colour; the five pullover colours in our gallery are five separate minimums. Splitting each 150 across sizes changes no setup, and our free MOQ calculator starts from XS 5%, S 15%, M 30%, L 30%, XL 10% and XXL 10%, a split you can edit. The floor comes from the cloth as much as the sewing. Fleece is bought by the kilo and dyed colour by colour at a partner mill with its own fabric minimums, and on fewer than 150 hoodies those minimums, pattern making and a line changeover fall on too few garments to make sense. That is the reason for the number, not an arbitrary policy.

A custom hoodie's unit cost is set mainly by fleece weight, then by trims, construction, decoration and quantity, and we quote it per style and colourway rather than publish a generic price. Fleece is bought by the kilo, so a 500 GSM heavyweight uses far more cloth than a 280 GSM piece, and heavier cartons lift the freight inside the DDP price. Hood lining, pocket style and rib are specced at the quote, and cut-make-trim rises with every extra panel and closure. Drawcords, eyelets, zips and woven labels carry supplier minimums that weigh more on 150 pieces than on 5,000. Embroidery is priced by stitch count, while screen printing rises with each colour, because each needs its own screen and pass. Pattern, sample and set-up costs are divided across the run, so unit price steps down at around 500, 1,000 and 5,000 pieces. With our quote in hand, the pricing calculator works out margin and markup at any retail price.

Because in most cases they're selling a different product, and it's worth knowing which before you compare prices. A very low hoodie minimum usually means the supplier is printing or embroidering your artwork onto ready-made blank hoodies they buy wholesale — which is a perfectly legitimate service, just not manufacturing. It means you don't choose the fabric weight, the fit, the shoulder line, the rib composition or the pocket style, because the blank's maker fixed them before your order existed. Other suppliers count the minimum per order, not per colour, so 30 hoodies might be five colours of six, or they fold the setup into the unit price, which then runs two to three times higher. If you need 30 hoodies quickly, a blank-printing service is honestly the better call, and we'll say so rather than quote you anyway. If you want your own garment made to your own pattern, that's what the 150-piece floor buys.

About 10 days for sampling, then 40–50 days of production once you approve the sample, plus shipping on top: air about 5–8 days depending on market, sea longer. Production covers fabric, cutting and sewing, finishing, quality control and packing; add a few days at the start for speccing and quoting. On a hoodie, it is the components, not the sewing, that usually set the date. Drawcords, tipped cord ends, metal eyelets, custom rib and often a zip are all bought from separate suppliers, and that trim stage is where hoodie orders slip while the sewing floor sits ready. The simplest way to protect your date is to settle drawcord colour, tip finish, eyelet colour and zip choice early, ideally at the quote. Plan for one sample revision round, which is normal rather than exceptional. If you have a fixed deadline, tell us at the outset and we'll say plainly whether it's achievable instead of agreeing and then missing it. From order to your door, plan on about 70 days by air.

You send a sketch, a reference hoodie or a paragraph, we spec and quote it, make one sample, and start bulk once you approve it. There are six stages. First, you send whatever you have; you don't need a tech pack, though our free tech pack template shows what one covers. Second, we spec it together and quote, roughly 3–7 days, so you know the numbers before spending on sampling. Third, sampling: we make one physical hoodie and ship it to you, in about 10 days. Fourth, you wear and wash it, checking the hood on a head and the body length afterwards, and ask for changes; a first revision is normal, and the version you sign off is the one bulk is measured against. Fifth, production: 40–50 days from sign-off to packed cartons, with photos at each stage. Sixth, DDP shipping on top, by air or sea. The most common source of delay is waiting on decisions from your side rather than production on ours.

Start by checking that the supplier actually makes hoodies rather than decorating bought-in blanks, because a decorator cannot change the fit, fleece weight or rib. The quickest test is to ask whether they can lengthen the body by two centimetres: a manufacturer says yes and quotes it, while a decorator explains why it does not matter. Then read the quote closely. Is the minimum counted per colour or per order? Are the fleece weight in GSM and the rib composition written down, with the elastane stated, or left vague? Are drawcords, eyelets and labels listed, or bundled into one figure? Ask for a sample in your fabric with your trims, made on the production line rather than by a separate sample room, and for photos at each stage of bulk. A pre-arranged factory visit shows you whose floor the hoodies are actually sewn on. Our guide to questions to ask a clothing manufacturer lists the rest.

Every hoodie is cut and sewn on our own line in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, and shipped DDP, so duty, clearance and freight are included in one landed price. The factory is at Plot-A-132, Road No. 02, BSCIC Industrial Area, Panchabati, Narayanganj 1420, and pre-arranged visits are welcome. The fleece is knitted and dyed by partner mills in Bangladesh, which we set specifications for and inspect but do not own; cutting, sewing, rib setting and QC happen on our floor. Knitwear makes up most of Bangladesh's garment exports: US$21.16bn of US$39.35bn in FY2024-25, according to BGMEA. Duty on a cotton hoodie (HS 6110.20) depends on where you sell. As verified on 19 September 2026, it is 0% into the UK, the EU, Canada and Australia on Bangladesh origin, while US duty is the 16.5% MFN rate plus a 10% Section 301 duty. We price that duty into the landed cost. Our brand office in Amsterdam handles design conversations, samples and paperwork.

A hoodie factory starts from cloth and your pattern, not from a finished blank. We book the loopback or fleece weight you asked for from partner mills, which knit, dye and compact it before it reaches our cutting table; we specify and inspect that work but do not own the mills. On our own line in Narayanganj the panels are cut to your pattern, the body is sewn, side-seamed as we recommend rather than tubular, and the kangaroo or split pockets are set. Elastane rib is attached at cuff and hem. Drawcords, metal eyelets, tipped cord ends, zips and custom rib come from separate suppliers and are built in to your spec, along with the hood lining you chose at the quote. Decoration is added from your artwork. You receive photos at each stage. Finished hoodies are inspected against your sealed sample by our QC team, led by Walter Meyer, then delivered duty paid as one landed cost.

For most brands 320–360 GSM, with 280 GSM our lightest and 400–500 GSM for a true heavyweight. In US terms, 320–360 GSM is about 9.4–10.6 oz per square yard. Around 280 GSM drapes softly and suits warm climates or a layering piece, though it won't read as premium, and we don't go below it because thinner fleece starts to feel cheap however well it's made. 320–360 GSM is the everyday streetwear standard and the sensible place to start: substantial without being unwieldy. 400–500 GSM gives the boxy, structured, expensive feel popularised by brands like Essentials and Fear of God. The heavyweight caveats are real: more fabric per garment means a higher unit price, the extra weight costs more to ship, and it takes noticeably longer to dry, which customers in hot climates do complain about. We make the full 280–500 GSM range and will tell you what you're trading away at either end.

Both start as the same loopback knit — the difference is what happens to the inside face. French terry leaves it as visible loops, unbrushed: lighter, more breathable, slightly textured against the skin, and it holds its shape well over time. Fleece brushes that inner face into a soft nap, which is warmer and gives the classic plush hoodie hand-feel most people picture. The trade-off is that brushing is also where pilling begins if the base yarn is low quality, so cheap fleece looks tired faster than cheap terry does. Neither is better in the abstract: fleece suits colder markets and a cosy positioning, terry suits year-round wear, warmer climates, and a cleaner, more elevated look. We'll recommend based on your climate, price point and the feel you describe rather than defaulting to one.

A good-quality hoodie is judged on the cuff and the fleece, and cheap ones cut corners on both. Start with the rib at cuff and hem: it needs elastane to spring back, and some very cheap hoodies have no real rib at all, just a strip of body fleece cut to look like a cuff. Then the fleece. A soft hand on day one proves little, because brushing is where pilling starts, so ask whether the base yarn is ring-spun or open-end; open-end is cheaper and pills sooner. Fleece not compacted before cutting can turn a customer's L into an M. Next, the hood. Try it on a head, not a hanger, to see how it frames the face and where the drawcord and metal eyelets fall, and ask whether it is lined, a choice settled at the quote. Last, the pockets: the corners of a pocket opening take the strain, so they need reinforcing or they tear.

Embroidery suits a small chest logo, screen printing a bold front or back graphic, and DTG or DTF a photographic or many-colour design. On fleece, embroidery gives a textured logo that lasts as long as the hoodie does; it is digitised once and priced by stitch count, cannot reproduce gradients, and a large dense design can pucker soft fleece. 3D puff embroidery raises the stitches over foam and needs simple, chunky shapes. Puff print is something else: a specialty screen-print ink that prints raised and suits heavyweight fleece. Screen printing, in water-based or plastisol inks, is the durable, cost-effective route at volume, but every colour needs its own screen and pass, so two colours cost far less than six. DTG and DTF use no screens, so colour count hardly moves their price and fine detail prints well, though at the cost of some durability. Send us the artwork and we'll say which suits it, or see DTF and DTG printing.

Yes: every hoodie we make is private label, so it carries your brand and nothing of ours. A typical set is a woven label at the back neck, a care and composition label at the side seam, and a size label, plus any hem tag, patch, embroidery or print. The hood is where a hoodie's branding differs from a tee's. You choose the drawcord colour, the tipped cord ends, the metal eyelet colour and the hood lining, and all of them are agreed at the spec-and-quote stage. On a premium hoodie, spend first on the woven neck label and a custom drawcord, because both are inexpensive and noticed the moment someone handles the garment. Retail-ready finishing covers branded polybags and hangtags; the pullovers in our gallery carry a private-label hangtag. Send your logo files and packaging references and we'll spec the trims alongside the garment. Our guide to labels, hang tags and packaging covers the options.

Yes: every hoodie style can be made in organic cotton fleece or French terry, and our GOTS certificate is RSC 9687, with the scope certificate available on request. Recycled blends are available too. The hoodie-specific detail is the cuff and hem rib, which needs a little elastane to recover. Under GOTS 7.0, a hoodie labelled 'organic' can hold no more than 5% other fibres, while the 'made with organic materials' grade needs at least 70% organic fibre and caps virgin elastane at 10%; virgin polyester is not allowed in either. The garment's overall blend, rib included, therefore decides which wording your hangtag may carry, and we confirm the permitted wording for your blend before hangtags print. GOTS 7.0 also bans hazardous inputs including PFAS. The organic premium is paid per kilo of cloth, so a 450 GSM heavyweight hoodie carries noticeably more of it than a 280 GSM layering piece. See organic cotton clothing for the wider range.

Yes — both, and they're pattern decisions rather than adjustments made later, so it's worth raising at the start. An oversized fit isn't just a bigger hoodie. The usual approach is a drop shoulder, where the shoulder seam deliberately extends past the natural shoulder point, combined with a wider body and often a shorter length to keep the proportion from reading simply too large. A cropped fit changes the hem position and usually needs the rib depth and body width rebalanced so it doesn't ride up in wear. Both are standard for us and neither carries a surcharge, but the pattern has to be drafted for the silhouette you want from the beginning. Send a reference garment or photos of a fit you like and we'll match the proportions on the sample.

Choose on look, bulk and budget, because the two do not cost the same to make. A kangaroo pouch is one panel and one sewing operation, and it reads classic and casual, the hoodie most people picture. Split pockets are two panels and two bag pieces, so they take more sewing time and add to cut-make-trim, but they look cleaner and more premium, are easier to use with both hands in pockets, and sit better under a zip placket, which makes them a natural pairing on a zip-up. Fabric weight changes the answer too: on heavyweight fleece a kangaroo pocket adds noticeable bulk across the front, so at 450 GSM with a sleeker silhouette, split pockets are usually the better call. On lighter weights the difference in bulk is small. Pocket style is settled at the spec-and-quote stage, alongside hood lining, rib and decoration, and quoted per style and colourway, so decide it before sampling.

A zip-up is its own pattern, not a pullover with a zip added. The front is cut as two panels, the zip is set into a placket down the centre front, and the hood is drafted to meet the zip on both sides of the neck. A pouch pocket has to be cut in two halves, one each side of the zip. The zip is a bought-in trim with its own supplier minimum, so you choose the tape colour, the teeth (metal, moulded plastic or nylon coil) and whether it is one-way or two-way; a two-way zip also opens from the hem and suits a longer body. A zip's length follows the body length, so each size takes its own length, and the size split has to be fixed before trims are booked. That trim stage is where hoodie orders usually lose time, so settle the zip at the quote, before the 40–50 days of production begin.

Everything is matched to one physical lab dip, the colour standard your body fabric is approved on, which we keep on file for reorders. A hoodie can carry five coloured materials: the fleece or terry body, the cuff and hem rib, the hood lining, the drawcord and, on a zip-up, the zip tape. Body and rib are knitted at partner mills in matching yarn so they dye alike, because a cuff a shade off the sleeve cannot be fixed after cutting. The drawcord and zip come from separate trim suppliers and are matched to the same lab dip. Check body, rib and trims side by side on the sample, in the light your customers will see them in. A deliberate contrast, such as the cream rib on a maroon sweatshirt in our factory video, is just as easy to specify. Each body colour is still its own dye lot and its own 150-piece minimum.