Textile Sourcing Reports — Home Textiles & Knitted Fabric from China
Global Sources China Sourcing Reports — the two textile reports in this series
Two China textile Sourcing Reports are covered on this page: Home Textiles and Knitted Fabric. The Home Textiles report profiles 90 manufacturers and shows 225 export products across 136 pages, published in August 2005 at US$445, covering bedding, towels, drapery and table linen. The Knitted Fabric report profiles 72 manufacturers and shows 168 export products across 114 pages, published in November 2005 at US$445, covering single and jersey, double and interlock, rib, purl, tricot and raschel fabrics. Both reports rest on in-person factory tours by Global Sources analysts, and Apparel Search works in association with Global Sources to promote them. The navigation directly below this introduction carries every link on this page, including both report pages, so each report can be opened and inspected from here.
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Home Textiles — China Sourcing Report
China is the world's leading supplier of home textiles, with exports rising 24 percent in 2004 to US$4.7 billion and shipments in the first five months of 2005 soaring nearly 40 percent to US$2.2 billion after quotas on certain products were eliminated in January 2005. The report profiles 90 manufacturers — 15 in depth from personal factory tours and 75 in profile tables — and shows 225 popular export items across bedding, towels, drapery and table linen, closing with a supplier survey on price, product, production and research trends. Its overview works through the safeguard actions that followed the export surge: China's agreement to limit bed and table linen shipments to the EU, and the US investigation into drapery shipments, in an industry of more than 3,000 suppliers where bedding is the largest line at US$2.9 billion. The report's own pages, linked from this page, set out what you will get, how you will benefit, the table of contents, and sample pages for the executive summary, industry overview, supplier profile and product gallery.
Knitted Fabric — China Sourcing Report
China is the world's largest producer of knitted fabric, exporting close to 800 million kilograms worth about US$3 billion a year — roughly one-third of global sales — from about 2,700 manufacturers. The report profiles 72 of them, 14 in depth and 58 in profile tables, and shows 168 popular export models across the six constructions it uses to organize the trade: single and jersey, double and interlock, rib, purl, tricot and raschel. Its overview follows an industry recovering from a slow start to 2005 — sales up 13 percent to US$2 billion in the first seven months — as makers upgrade equipment, chase the EU market, absorb synthetic yarn cost increases of up to 10 percent, and release more functional and plant-based fiber fabrics. For a garment buyer, this is the upstream report: the fabric decisions taken here set the price, hand and performance of every garment made from the cloth, which is why the gallery prices fabric by the kilogram and the profiles record knitting capacity rather than sewing lines.
How the Two Textile Reports Differ — and Combine
The two reports serve different benches in the same factory. Home Textiles is a made-up goods report: its buyer compares finished bedding sets, quilts, towels and table linen, reads prices per piece, and judges suppliers on sewing, quilting and finishing capacity. Knitted Fabric is a materials report: its buyer compares cloth by construction, fiber blend, weight in grams per square metre and width, reads prices per kilogram or per metre, and judges suppliers on knitting machines, dyeing and finishing. Used together they trace a supply chain — a buyer sourcing knitted garments can check a fabric maker in one report and a home textiles maker in the other only for different products, but the research method is identical: factory tours, the same profile template, a supplier survey, and contact details that turn reading into enquiries. That consistency is deliberate, and it is what makes the textile pair a reliable complement to the garment and India reports elsewhere in this directory.
Common Questions
What textile reports are covered here?
Two China Sourcing Reports: Home Textiles — 90 suppliers, 225 products, 136 pages, August 2005, US$445 — and Knitted Fabric — 72 suppliers, 168 products, 114 pages, November 2005, US$445.
What is the difference between the two textile reports?
Home Textiles covers made-up goods — bedding, towels, drapery and table linen, priced per piece. Knitted Fabric covers cloth itself — jersey, interlock, rib, purl, tricot and raschel constructions, priced per kilogram or per metre.
How were the textile reports researched?
By Global Sources analysts conducting independent, impartial research, including in-person factory tours and interviews with senior managers. Apparel Search works in association with Global Sources to promote the reports.