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October 2026
- [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] 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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [COUNTRY] Pakistan Pakistan is a vertically integrated, cotton-rich apparel manufacturer and the world's largest exporter of some home textile categories. $18bn in textile exports in FY2025-26, concentrated in the EU, US and UK, and constrained by a collapsing domestic cotton crop.
- [GLOSSARY] GSM GSM means grams per square metre. It measures fabric mass per unit area — not thickness, quality or durability — and it is only meaningful when quoted alongside fibre content, construction and finish, because the number changes depending on how and when it was measured.
- [GLOSSARY] MOQ MOQ is the smallest quantity a manufacturer will accept for an order. It is not one number but the highest of several minimums — fabric, dyeing, knitting or weaving, cutting, and finishing — each of which has its own economic floor.
- [RESEARCH] Pakistan textile and apparel exports, FY2025-26 Pakistan's textile sector grew 0.3% to $18bn while the country's total exports fell 5.9%. An analysis of what the composition shift toward value-added exports means for buyers, and why the raw-material collapse is the more important signal.
- [DATASET] Pakistan textile and apparel exports, FY2025-26 Textile and apparel export values for Pakistan by HS chapter, segment and destination for FY2025-26, as published by the Pakistan Textile Council.