Example production runs
Five worked examples, 100 to 300 pieces: the spec, the minimum, the weeks and a cost range from our calculator. Use them to plan your own brief.
Examples, not client orders
Five examples
Each example is a realistic first order worked through with our cost calculator and the lead times our factories work to. Your own quote comes from the factory, from your brief.
Example, not a client order
Calculator range per piece
$30.15–$51.75
× 200 pcs = $6,030–$10,350 ex-factory, USD
Inputs: 22–40 base · Mid fabric · 100–300 (×1.20) · Standard construction · extras Wash/dye treatment $2.50, Custom woven labels $0.60, Care & size labels $0.30, Hang tags $0.35 (+$3.75/pc)
What moves the price
Example, not a client order
Calculator range per piece
$16.70–$26.70
× 300 pcs = $5,010–$8,010 ex-factory, USD
Inputs: 14–24 base · Mid fabric · 300–500 (×1.00) · Standard construction · extras Embroidery $1.80, Custom woven labels $0.60, Care & size labels $0.30 (+$2.70/pc)
What moves the price
Example, not a client order
Calculator range per piece
$25.38–$41.70
× 150 pcs = $3,807–$6,255 ex-factory, USD
Inputs: 12–20 base · Luxury (tencel, wool, silk) fabric · 100–300 (×1.20) · Standard construction · extras Custom woven labels $0.60, Care & size labels $0.30 (+$0.90/pc)
The calculator has no knitwear category yet. This uses the nearest one (sweatshirt base) with the Luxury (wool) fabric tier, so treat it as rough.
What moves the price
Example, not a client order
Calculator range per piece
$28.98–$60.18
× 100 pcs = $2,898–$6,018 ex-factory, USD
Inputs: 18–38 base · Upper-mid (organic, Turkish mills) fabric · 100–300 (×1.20) · Standard construction · extras Custom woven labels $0.60, Care & size labels $0.30 (+$0.90/pc)
What moves the price
Example, not a client order
Calculator range per piece
$53.75–$113.75
× 150 pcs = $8,063–$17,063 ex-factory, USD
Inputs: 35–75 base · Mid fabric · 100–300 (×1.20) · Complex construction · extras Custom woven labels $0.60, Care & size labels $0.30, Hang tags $0.35 (+$1.25/pc)
What moves the price
All five are examples, not client orders. Ranges are ex-factory in USD from the calculator’s benchmark logic; freight, duty and VAT come on top. Timings are the lead-time ranges for each product family, with the conservative end shown.
How we quote
The examples give you a corridor. Four steps turn it into a written price from the factory that will make your run.
Product, pieces per style, target date, where it lands. A sketch or photos are enough to start.
Fit or not, what is missing, and a ballpark from the same benchmarks as these examples.
The factory in our group built for it quotes from your spec: price per piece, sampling cost and lead time.
Pattern to first sample 10–14 days; 2–4 weeks with corrections. The bulk price is fixed on the approved sample.
Behind the examples
Each example is placed by product family: denim with a floor that works with a laundry, knitwear with a knitting floor, wovens and prints with their own lines.
Jeans on laundry carts
Flat knitting machine
A wide sewing floor
Printed fabric, ready to cut
Pressing a knitted sweater
Examples, not client orders. Photos show production steps in Turkey, not one specific factory.
FAQ
What they are, where the numbers come from, and what they leave out.
Still not sure it fits?
Send the product, the quantity per style and the date. We reply within 24 hours with an honest answer. Send a briefNo. Each one is an example, not a client order: a realistic first run worked through with our cost calculator and the lead times for that product family. We do not publish client orders or client names.
From the same logic as our cost calculator: a benchmark range per garment, multiplied by fabric tier, quantity and construction, plus per-piece extras. The inputs are listed under each range. The factory’s written quote is the number that counts.
We show the conservative end. Sampling takes 2–4 weeks and bulk 6–11 weeks depending on the product, so plan around 10–15 weeks from brief to goods for a first order. With a fixed ship date, start at least 14 weeks before it.
Most factories in our group start at 100 pieces per style; denim and activewear at 200, outerwear and tailoring at 150. Below that you are usually looking at small-batch producers.
No. They are ex-factory (FOB) in USD. Freight, clearance and import VAT come on top. Into the EU, goods with an A.TR certificate usually enter without customs duty; the UK has its own rules of origin. Check with your broker.
Send a brief
Four things are enough to start. We reply within 24 hours and place the brief with the factory in our group built for your product.
Free to send · No commissions · The factory bills you directly
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