Birim Textile

Company Profile

Birim's record describes the classic Istanbul knit house: a compact machine park of 30 knitting machines, a fabric range built on jersey and its fashion derivatives, and apparel manufacture alongside fabric sales. Jacquard and velour (velur) are the value-adding constructions here — jacquard knits carry pattern in the structure itself, and velour gives a plush, velvet-like surface — while elastane jersey serves the fitted end of the womenswear market.

Selling to apparel companies at home and in Italy puts Birim in Türkiye's fast-response corridor: Turkish knit fabrics reach European garment makers in days, and Istanbul houses of this size survive on development speed and small-lot flexibility rather than commodity volume. Yarn-dyed jersey — striped and patterned cloth knitted from pre-dyed yarns — is a typical example: it needs yarn-dyeing coordination that rewards a supplier managing the whole chain.

Birim's fabric list rewards a second look: plain jersey is the base, but jacquard, velour and yarn-dyed jersey are all higher-value constructions, and elastane appears twice — in jacquard and jersey — marking the fitted womenswear segment. Thirty knitting machines is a deliberate size: large enough for export programs, small enough to change constructions frequently for fashion orders. The sales pattern in the record — domestic export apparel companies first, European shipments (Italy named) second — is the typical Istanbul balance, where Turkish garment exporters are the mill's anchor customers and direct European fabric sales are the growth line.

Sourcing and Working With Birim Textile

Knit fabric enquiries to a house like Birim should start with construction and composition together: single jersey, jacquard or velour; cotton or blends; elastane percentage where stretch is wanted. Because the company also manufactures apparel, clarify whether you are buying fabric or a made garment — the costing, sampling and quality checkpoints differ completely between the two offers.

For yarn-dyed work, the critical agreement is the stripe or pattern repeat and its tolerance, since yarn-dyed knits cannot be corrected after knitting the way printed cloth sometimes can. Ask for a knitted-down sample (a small trial knitting) before bulk, and confirm whether prices are per kilogram or per metre — Turkish knit fabric is conventionally traded by weight, which makes the finished width and GSM part of every price comparison.

Understanding the Range

Knitted fabrics — the family Birim Textile works in — are built from interlocking loops rather than interlaced yarns, which is why they stretch, recover and feel soft against the skin. Buyers comparing knitters should look past the headline fabric name to the machine gauge, the yarn count and the finishing route, because two fabrics both sold as 'Knitted fabrics and apparel' can differ in all three. A well-run knit program also fixes how fabric is measured and paid for — by weight or by length — at the very first order, since knitted cloth relaxes, grows and shrinks in ways woven cloth does not, and most disputes in this trade are measurement disputes wearing a quality costume.

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