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Apparel intelligence for people who have to make a decision.
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Independent research, data and practical intelligence for the global apparel and textile industry.
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Explore the industry
Eleven sections covering how apparel is made, sourced, costed and decided.
Latest intelligence
Research-led. Every page states its sources, its data period and its limitations.
- [ARTICLE] What clothing manufacturing actually costs How garment cost is built up, which components move, and how to sanity-check a quotation. Written as a cost anatomy rather than a price list — because a cost benchmark without a stated basis is worse than no benchmark at all.
- [ARTICLE] Pakistan textile industry Pakistan's textile and apparel sector earned $18bn in FY2025-26 and accounts for roughly 60% of national exports — but it is shifting from raw materials toward value-added apparel, and its domestic cotton crop has collapsed to a fraction of its peak.
- [ARTICLE] OEM vs ODM: what you are actually buying OEM means the factory builds your design. ODM means the factory owns the design and you put your label on it. The distinction determines who owns the pattern, who carries the development cost, and whether you can leave.
- [FABRIC] Combed cotton Combed cotton is cotton that has passed through a combing stage, which removes short fibres and impurities before spinning. The result is a stronger, smoother, less pilling yarn — and roughly 10–20% of the fibre is discarded to get it.
- [FABRIC] Ring-spun cotton Ring-spun cotton is yarn formed on a ring spinning frame, where a continuous strand of fibres is drawn out and twisted simultaneously. It produces a stronger, smoother, softer yarn than open-end spinning — and it is slower and more expensive to make.
- [FABRIC] Cotton Cotton is a natural cellulose fibre spun from the seed hairs of the cotton plant. It is the most widely used apparel fibre, and the one whose quality varies most between origins and processing routes.
Explore manufacturing
Processes, costs, quality control, factory technology and the decisions behind them.
Fabric encyclopedia
Country intelligence
Pakistan intelligence
An area of genuine depth rather than a claim of even global coverage. The platform is global; Pakistan is where first-hand knowledge runs deepest.
Research, data and tools
Reports, datasets, benchmarks and calculators — each with its methodology attached.
Manufacturer and supplier discovery
The network layer, being built in the open.
Zero records. Deliberately.
A directory is only worth reading if the records in it are true. This one publishes nothing that has not been checked, so it currently publishes nothing at all. What is already here is the methodology: what gets recorded, how each record is verified, and what each of the five verification levels actually means.