Private Label T-Shirt Manufacturer

100 pieces per style, per colourway — cut and sewn from your pattern rather than printed onto blanks. The per-colourway part is the detail that catches most new brands out when budgeting: a tee in black and white is two minimums, 200 pieces total, because each colour is a separate fabric batch with its own dye lot and setup. Sizes work differently and you can split the 100 across a curve however suits your customers, so a typical split might be 10 S, 25 M, 30 L, 25 XL, 10 XXL. Below roughly 100 units of cut-and-sew, pattern making, the mill's own fabric minimum and a line changeover no longer spread sensibly, which is the actual reason for the floor.

They are different products at different prices, and suppliers use the terms loosely, so it is worth pinning down which a quote refers to. Private label means the garment is manufactured to your specification and carries only your branding — you choose fabric, weight, fit, construction and trims, and the pattern is yours. White label means an existing generic product is rebadged with your logo: faster and cheaper, but the product itself is not unique to you, and a competitor can order the identical item from the same source. OEM usually means the factory manufactures wholly to your design and engineering. We do private label and OEM. If someone quotes you a very low price and a very low minimum, it is often white label — legitimate, but not the same thing.

180 GSM is the safest everyday choice and where most brands land. Below that, 140–160 GSM is light and soft with good drape, which suits summer styles and fashion-forward fits, but it shows body shape more and is less forgiving on fit. Above it, 200–220 GSM gives the heavier, structured feel that reads premium, holds its shape better and photographs well, at the cost of more per unit and more weight to ship — which matters if you sell into hot climates where a heavy tee is actually less wearable. We will recommend based on your market, price point and the silhouette you are after rather than pushing the heaviest option as automatically better, because it is not.

Tubular means the body is knitted as one continuous tube with no side seams — cheaper and faster to make, and what most budget blanks are. The problem is torque: tubular fabric has a tendency to twist, so the side line spirals around the body after a few washes and the hem sits crooked. That twisted-hem look on a cheap tee is exactly this. Side-seamed cuts front and back as separate panels and joins them, which uses more fabric and labour but hangs straight and lets us actually shape the fit rather than leaving it a straight tube. For anything sold at a premium price we would recommend side-seamed, and it is what we spec as standard.

Yes to both, with an important distinction between them. GOTS-certified organic cotton is available under our certificate RSC 9687, which you can verify yourself on the public database at global-standard.org — GOTS covers organic fibre content, bans restricted chemistry including PFAS under version 7.0, and audits working conditions across the supply chain. Note that GOTS defines more than one label wording depending on fibre composition, and we confirm which one applies to your fabric before anything is printed. Supima is different: it is a trademarked American extra-long-staple cotton prized for softness, strength and resistance to pilling, but it is a quality designation rather than a sustainability certification. A tee can be Supima without being organic, and vice versa.

Yes — that is what makes it private label rather than a printed blank. Woven or printed neck labels, care and size labels, hem tags, hangtags, and branded polybags or retail-ready packaging are all standard. If your budget is tight and you are deciding where to spend first, a woven neck label instead of a printed care tag is the single highest-impact upgrade: it is inexpensive, and it is the first thing someone notices when they pick the garment up or pull it over their head. A scratchy printed care label on an otherwise good tee undercuts the whole impression, and it is one of the most common places new brands accidentally economise.

No. A sketch, a reference tee whose fit you like, or a clear written description is enough to start and to get an indicative price. A tech pack is the technical specification a factory works from — points of measure across your size range, fabric and GSM, trims, stitch types, label placement — and building one with you is part of the quoting stage, before you spend anything on sampling. If you would rather arrive prepared, our free tech pack template and checklist cover every field. The most useful thing you can send is an existing garment whose fit you want matched: measurements from a real tee beat a description every time.

Yes. The minimum is per style and per colourway; within that, the size split is entirely yours. That flexibility is useful because it lets you weight toward the sizes you expect to sell rather than accepting an even distribution. Most brands start from a bell curve with the bulk in the middle sizes and less at the extremes, then adjust to their audience — a streetwear label skews larger and toward oversized fits, a women's fitted line skews smaller. Our free MOQ calculator suggests a sensible starting split for any quantity that you can adjust. If you have sales data from a previous run, use that instead of a generic curve.

Match it to the artwork rather than picking a default. Screen printing is the most durable and cost-effective for bold designs in a few colours at volume — see the intro above for why colour count drives the price so sharply. Embroidery suits a small, premium chest logo and lasts the life of the garment but cannot handle gradients or fine detail. DTG handles detailed, photographic, many-colour artwork on smaller runs at some cost to durability. Sublimation gives edge-to-edge all-over prints but needs polyester content, so it will not work on a cotton tee at all. Send us the artwork and we will tell you which serves it best.

We will not quote a generic figure, because it moves a great deal with fabric weight, cotton grade, decoration and quantity — but here is the structure so you can sanity-check any quote. Fabric is normally the largest single component, which is why a 220 GSM organic tee costs meaningfully more than a 150 GSM conventional one. Then cut-make-trim, the labour of cutting and sewing, which rises with construction complexity. Then trims and labels. On top sit one-off pattern and sampling costs spread across the order, which is why 100 pieces costs more per unit than 1,000; prices typically step down around 500, 1,000 and 5,000 units. Our free pricing calculator gives an indicative band before you speak to anyone.

Roughly 40 to 50 days from approved sample to delivery: about 10 to 15 days sampling, 20 to 25 days bulk production, then quality control and DDP shipping, plus a few days at the start for speccing and quoting. Sampling is where most of the useful back-and-forth happens and it is worth not rushing — wear the sample, wash it, check the fit after washing rather than only out of the bag. Expect at least one revision round; that is normal rather than a sign anything went wrong. If you are working to a launch date, plan backwards and include every stage plus a buffer, because brands that miss dates have usually started the clock at bulk production.