21 Facts You Must Know – Wool Sweater Industry Article

The wool sweater industry has been attracting attention for its unique features and advantages. Here are 21 key facts about the wool sweater industry that will give you a better understanding of the industry.

1. Woolen sweater factories usually treat stains on knitwear with a special potion, a water-gun-like tool that can easily remove all kinds of stains. Therefore, after purchasing a wool sweater, it is recommended to wash it before wearing it, regardless of whether it looks clean to the naked eye.
   
2. For patterned imitation clothes, skilled workers are able to judge the style of the clothes even by a single glance and pattern them when they go back. Therefore, in some wholesale markets, many merchants will pull the curtain so that the style is not copied.
   
3. In order to pattern woolen clothes, you need to have photos of the front and back of the clothes and photos of the interfaces, and with these, and then find the same type of yarn, basically you will be able to achieve a very similar effect. If you have the original clothes, you can even achieve a 1:1 copy.
   
4. Really hot clothes are often not on the wholesale market and are usually sold within the manufacturer, where demand exceeds supply. Only when a certain type of clothing is widely imitated will it appear on the wholesale market, which also means overcapacity.
   
5. The overall retail situation in Taobao is not good this year. The daily turnover of the big Taobao stores we supply has dropped dramatically, and most of the spending power is going to live e-commerce and private communities.
   
6. Vipshop is required to test the ingredients of every piece of clothing or face severe fines if found to be counterfeit. Unlike Taobao, Vipshop’s ingredients must be true and accurate. (Non-advertising, our customers are Vipshop, so we understand the situation, but due to the tight supply models, the price of supply to Vipshop is not low)
   
7. Don’t trust overly low-priced clothes, such as cashmere sweaters under 200 RMB, which means the cashmere content must be very small. Although there are many tail goods and inventory circulating in the market, after many changes of hands, the price of clothes is basically proportional to their value.
   
8. In order to reduce costs, there are many ways in the garment industry, such as using second-hand wool yarn or reducing the complexity of the process. The initial way to judge the cost of a garment is to observe its detailed processes, such as hemming and stitching, but the basic principle is that the more complex the process, the higher the cost.
   
9. Steaming is a method of adjusting the size of a garment, e.g. making a small size larger by steaming, which usually does not affect the wearing effect.
   
10. Nowadays, even customized cashmere sweater manufacturers seldom make clothes containing more than 90% cashmere because the cost is too high and many people are reluctant to spend too much on cashmere sweaters.
    
11. There are two ways to dye a wool sweater, one is to dye the yarn and the other is to dye the whole cloth after weaving. The second method is less costly, but due to the different degrees of neatness of the arrangement of the threads during weaving, sometimes the dye cannot penetrate completely into the interior. General brands and better quality clothes usually dye the yarn first and then use the dyed threads to weave the fabric, which fixes the color better.
    
12. In OEM production, there is often excess yarn, partly because of the yarn loss calculated during sample making, and partly because the brands’ supply chain itself sets aside 15% for loss. Therefore, when we produce orders for our customers, there are often boxes of excess yarn piled up in the factory.
    
13. There are some areas in China where low-end wool sweaters are concentrated, and many wool sweaters under 50 RMB come from these areas. Mid-range and high-end wool sweaters come from other areas, but it is not recommended that retail customers make special trips to these places to buy clothing, similar to local wholesale markets, and are vulnerable to fraud.
    
14. Virtually all knitwear is loose after it has been stretched on a wool sweater flat knitting machine. This is due to a high-temperature treatment process that shrinks it to create the thick and stretchy look you see in stores.
    
15. Embroidery on knitwear is usually done after a high-temperature treatment process because the embroidery thread itself does not shrink. Usually, only one side of the jersey is embroidered, usually, the brand’s logo embroidery, as this only requires one side to be disassembled. However, recently we received an order for full body embroidery on a whole piece of knitwear, so we need to cut the fabric into garments, process it through high-temperature shrinkage and then dismantle it into the fabric, and then use a computerized machine to do the full body embroidery, which is very tedious and costly.
    
16. The cost price of a knitted sweater is often proportional to its weight, as the yarn is the largest cost. Therefore, when buying cashmere sweaters, not only focus on the composition but also the weight, the thinner and looser the knitwear is more prone to wear and tear.
    
17. Now Taobao appeared many 99 yuan, 199 yuan pure cashmere sweaters, these clothes should not buy! To be honest, even if there are manufacturers to deal with the price, after recovering the cost of selling to retail users will not be lower than the market wholesale price. Such a price is not even enough to buy yarn, how can it be pure cashmere?
    
18. 99 dollars of pure cashmere is impossible, but 99 dollars of pure wool is possible, but such a pure wool sweater is often very thin, the weight may only be about 100 grams, and then more is not credible. Sometimes you can buy pure wool sweaters for a few dozen dollars.
    
19. Clothes made of core yarn have been very popular this year, leading to a sharp rise in the price of raw materials. In fact, the core yarn is just an ordinary knitting fabric, blindly following the trend to buy and not cost-effective, the purchase should focus on the quality of clothes and quality.
    
20. It is now January, more than a month from the New Year, and many factories have been on vacation. Most of what is being sold in the market is the previous stock, so the current price is not the lowest. Because people still have a ray of hope, hoping to sell a wave of goods before the New Year, and so on after the New Year, winter clothing prices will drop sharply, because people have lost confidence in this.
    
21. For knitwear imitations, the most difficult to imitate the clothes with hardware, because the hardware is easy to be found differently. In the case of pure knitwear, it is almost possible for a seasoned worker to produce a similar effect through the yarn.