Category Archives: Textile Buyer Guides

Practical sourcing, specification and procurement guides for hotel, laundry, wholesale and private-label textile buyers.

Prepare a baby hooded towel brief covering dimensions, hood construction, trims, care labels, testing requirements and packaging.

Calculate towel piece weight from dimensions and GSM, then compare wash trials and operating costs using measured laundry data.

Understand ring-spun and open-end yarn descriptions, then compare equivalent towel samples, construction details and wash results.

Specify hotel sheets, pillowcases and duvet covers by mattress measurements, washed fit, construction, closures and packing.

Plan a dobby border towel collection with coordinated sizes, border placement, shade references and repeat-order controls.

Compare bath sheets and bath towels by finished size, fabric weight, guest use, storage and laundry handling.

Select beach towel dimensions using customer use, washed measurements, artwork placement and retail packing rather than size names alone.

Compare salon and bathroom towel sizes, colours, chemical exposure, stock rotation and sample trials.

Build a bathrobe specification covering terry, waffle or velour fabric, garment fit, laundering and logo placement.

Calculate a hotel’s towel stock by room allocation, laundry turnaround and operating reserve, with a worked 100-room example.