Gardening gloves, your specification
Made to your tech pack, fabric and colours by a factory matched to the order.
Private label
Your main label, care label, hangtag and polybag. Nominated trims accepted.
Gardening gloves are a seasonal retail line for garden centres, DIY chains, supermarkets and gift shops, sold on a header card or in multipacks each spring. The buyer orders in volume at a low price per pair and refreshes the prints every season. A gardening glove manufacturer in Bangladesh therefore needs a cutting room that handles many prints in short runs and a packing line that can card, tag and barcode to a retailer's manual.
Hand gloves are a category Garments Hub BD has not yet matched to a vetted unit. For a gardening glove enquiry the desk looks for a unit able to print or buy in your designs and pack to your retail specification for a spring date, visits it, and replies within 5 working days with a quote or a straight no.
Kinds of gardening glove
Printed back with leather palm
A floral or patterned cotton back, a split or grain leather palm and a gathered elastic wrist. The core retail style, sold as a single pair on a header card in two or three sizes.
Coated knit garden gloves
A knitted polyester liner dipped in latex or nitrile on the palm, often in bright colours and sold three to a pack. Cheap, washable and good in wet soil.
Rose and pruning gauntlets
A goatskin or thick suede hand with a long cuff reaching towards the elbow, sometimes with a padded palm. Sold for roses and brambles at a higher price point than the everyday glove.
Children's gardening gloves
Small sizes with bright prints and cotton or coated palms, often packed with a toy tool set. Sold for children, so prints and any metal parts become a test question in the US.
How to specify a gardening glove
- Prints and colourways
- Send artwork per colourway and say whether the back fabric is printed for the job or bought ready printed. Agree where the pattern sits on each size.
- Palm material and coverage
- Split leather, grain leather or a coating, and whether the palm wraps over the fingertips. Fingertips wear through first in soil and on tools.
- Elastic wrist
- Give the elastic width and the number of gathering rows. Weak elastic loosens within a season and lets soil in at the cuff.
- Retail pack
- Header card, hang tag with hook, multipack bag or display box. Give the card size, barcode type and the language panels needed per market.
- Pairing method
- A plastic tag pin, a clip or the card itself holds the pair. Each opens differently, so choose with the retailer's display in mind.
- Retail sizes
- Garden ranges usually sell S, M and L, or one women's and one men's size. Fewer sizes keep the shelf simple but fit fewer hands.
Tests and rules for gardening gloves
- REACH Annex XVII, entry 43
- Bars azo dyes that release listed amines above 30 mg/kg from textiles sold in the EU. Multi colour printed backs are where to look, so cover every print in the report.
- REACH Annex XVII, entry 47
- Chrome tanned leather palms touching the skin must stay at or under 3 mg/kg of chromium VI for EU shelves. Ask for a recent result on the tannery lot used.
- EN 388
- Only needed if the pack claims protection. Its puncture test uses a blunt steel probe, so a puncture level is no promise against thin thorns; avoid thorn proof wording without a test.
- US CPSIA
- Children's gardening gloves sold in the US need lead limits met on prints and metal parts, a tracking label, testing at a CPSC accepted lab and a Children's Product Certificate.
What moves the price at a gardening glove manufacturer in Bangladesh
- Print: each extra screen colour, or a full digital print, adds cost per metre of back fabric.
- Palm: grain leather costs more than split, and split more than a latex coating.
- Retail packaging: a printed header card with a barcode costs more than a pair in a polybag.
- Short runs of many prints mean more changeovers in cutting and more card artwork.
- Multipacks: binding three pairs into one pack adds handling but lowers the pack cost per pair.
Lead time for gardening gloves
Garden retail buys months ahead for a spring shelf. Sampling usually takes 10 to 18 days, longer if each print needs a strike-off on the back fabric. Bulk typically runs 40 to 65 days after the pre-production pair is approved, and printing the backs, printing the cards and hand packing can each add days. Work back from the retailer's delivery window; the quote confirms the dates.
What we check on gardening gloves before shipment
- Print placementThe print is checked for matching placement on left and right hands, and flexed to see the ink does not crack at the knuckles.
- Card, barcode and pairEvery sampled pack is checked for the right size on the card, a barcode that scans and a true left and right pair.
- Wrist recoveryThe gathered wrist is stretched and released to see it recovers and that the elastic is caught in the cuff seam.
- Fingertip seamsFingertip and palm seams are checked for open stitches, since soil works into any gap.
Questions buyers ask about gardening gloves
Can one order carry several prints?
Usually yes. The minimum normally applies to each print and colour, so every print in the order has to reach it. A first spring order of three or four prints is common, with the strongest seller reordered once the season shows which one it is.
Do gardening gloves need safety certification?
That depends on the words on the pack and your market's rules. A protection claim such as thorn proof or cut resistant needs a lab test and certification on the finished glove before it is printed. Check with your compliance team before the card artwork is signed off.
Can gardening gloves be sold in multipacks?
Yes. Three pair packs of coated gloves are common, held by a card band or in a bag with a header. State the mix of sizes and prints per pack, because a mixed pack is packed by hand and costs more.
Leather palm or coated palm for a retail garden glove?
Leather suits a gift or a mid price glove and lasts longer with tools and handles. A latex or nitrile coating is cheaper, washable and grips wet soil better. Many garden ranges carry one of each, at two clear price points.
Get a quote for gardening gloves
Tech pack or sketch with quantities per colour. A vetted unit and a real quote, or a straight no, within 5 working days.
