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Five short steps, about two minutes. Our team reads it and tells you which Indian cluster and which factory in our group is built for your product. If none is, we say so by email before any fee is discussed.
Send what you have. We ask for the rest by email.
Prefer to contact factories yourself? The India Factory Directory ($39) lists 80+ documented factories with direct contacts, as a PDF and Google Sheet.
We answer every email personally. Usually within hours.
After you press send
No sales calls, no pipeline. Five steps, all in writing, and you know our fee before any work starts.
Within 24 hours
By email, with any questions we need answered to place your brief properly.
Fit check
Product, quantity, fabric and timeline against the factories built for them. If none fits, we tell you by email before any fee is discussed.
In writing
Quoted after we read your brief and never tied to your order size. No commissions from factories.
Placement
The factory in our group built for your product. We stay involved through sampling, production and delivery.
Sample, then bulk
Sampling takes 3–5 weeks; a first bulk order 12–16 weeks from approved sample to shipped. You agree price and payment terms with us and the factory.
Free to send
Sending a brief costs nothing and commits you to nothing. You decide once you have our fee in writing.
Other ways in
The form or plain email. Both land with the same person, and both get a reply within 24 hours.
Five steps, about two minutes. It asks for exactly what a factory needs, so the first reply is already useful.
Attach sketches, photos or a tech pack. Tell us the product, pieces per style and when stock has to land.
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The India Factory Directory: 80+ documented factories with contacts, minimums, specialties and certifications.
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We work in writing: no phone calls and no messaging apps. That way every detail of your brief stays on record for you, for us and for the factory.
Before you send it
Minimums, timing, certifications and what the brief costs you. If yours isn’t here, put it in the brief.
Sending a brief
The seven questions we hear most on this page.
100 pieces per style across our group. The fabric sets the real floor: cotton jersey on stock yarn runs from 100, hoodies and polos usually need 150–250, wool sweaters 250–400, and wovens on fabric commissioned from a mill start around 1,000. We confirm the exact minimum with the factory before you commit to anything.
Sampling takes 3–5 weeks, longer if the fabric is commissioned. A first bulk order takes 12–16 weeks from approved sample to goods shipped, and a repeat order 8–10 weeks.
Diwali (October or November, the date moves every year) closes most factories for 1–2 weeks, and the monsoon (June to September) slows dyeing and washing. You get a realistic timeline before production starts, not after.
Yes. Many briefs we read are first production runs. What matters is a realistic brief: clear garment details, a quantity at or above 100 pieces per style, and a timeline with room for sampling. We tell you plainly whether it fits before you spend anything.
Cotton knitwear (tees, polos, jersey, fleece), sweaters and winterwear, woven shirts and dresses, embroidery and block print, denim, outerwear and cotton-rich activewear. Not every factory makes everything: we place your brief with the one built for your product. Technical synthetic performance wear is usually better made elsewhere, and we will say so.
Several hold GOTS, OCS or OEKO-TEX Standard 100. If a certification is required for your market or your retail buyers, put it in your brief and we place it only with factories that hold it. We don’t list certifications we haven’t verified.
Send the brief anyway: sketches, photos or a reference garment are enough for a first answer. Factories quote from a spec, though, so you will need a tech pack before sampling. Ours is $79 per style, delivered in 3–5 working days with 2–3 revision rounds.
Nothing. If your project fits a factory in our group, we quote our fee in writing after we read the brief and before any work starts. It is never tied to your order size, we take no commission from factories, and the factory bills you directly.
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