Hand towels, 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.
Hand towels usually sell in larger numbers than bath towels: a home keeps several per bathroom, and a hotel swaps them at every room clean. Retailers buy them as one piece of a matched set, while hotels, offices and facility suppliers buy plain white or banded towels by the dozen. A hand towel manufacturer in Bangladesh weaves both on terry looms at a lighter weight than the bath towel.
For a set, Garments Hub BD asks the factories quoting your hand towel to weave it in the same quality as the bath towel and dye it to the same recipe, so the shades sit together on the shelf. For hotel supply, each factory states the weight per piece as well as the price, so you can judge laundry cost alongside the quote.
Kinds of hand towel
Set matched hand towels
Woven in the quality, border and shade of the bath towel and face cloth in a retail set. Dyeing the pieces together, or at least to one recipe, keeps the hand towel from looking a tone off beside its bath towel.
Hotel washroom hand towels
White or a house shade with a plain cam or dobby band, sold by the dozen. Lighter weights dry between room cleans and cost less to launder, which is why hotels seldom buy them heavy.
Guest towels
A smaller size, usually around 30 by 50 centimetres, laid beside a basin for visitors. Often given a deeper border or a woven motif, since it is seen more than it is used.
Hanging loop hand towels
A tape or self fabric loop sewn into the hem lets the towel hang from a hook in kitchens, cloakrooms and small bathrooms. Loop position and stitching need their own line in the spec.
Low pile quick drying towels
A shorter loop or ribbed terry trades some plushness for a towel that is rarely still damp when the next person reaches for it, useful in busy shared washrooms.
How to brief a hand towel manufacturer in Bangladesh
- Finished size
- Give the finished size per market and keep it in proportion with the bath towel, so a folded set stacks neatly on a shelf or in a gift box.
- Weight
- Hand towels usually weigh 400 to 550 GSM. Lighter suits a high turnover washroom; heavier suits a retail set where the hand towel must feel like its bath towel.
- Hanging loop
- Give the loop material, length and position, centred on a short side or at a corner, and ask for it to be caught inside the hem with a bar tack.
- Set matching
- List the other pieces in the set, state that all are dyed to one recipe against one approved lab dip, and ask for the dye lot number on each carton.
- Band for sorting
- Hotels often order a coloured or woven band so housekeeping can tell hand towels from bath towels at a glance; give its colour and width.
- Packing unit
- Retail sets are banded or boxed together; hotel supply is folded by the dozen. State the count per inner pack and per carton so receiving counts are quick.
Tests and labelling for hand towels
- AATCC 135
- Dimensional change of fabric after home laundering, the method US retailers usually name. A hand towel that shrinks differently from its bath towel spoils a set after one wash.
- AATCC 61
- An accelerated wash test for colour fastness used by US buyers. Ask for the staining result on the multifibre strip too, since a dark hand towel goes into mixed loads.
- Textile Fiber Products Identification Act
- US labelling for household textiles as well as clothing: fibre content, country of origin and the identity of the maker or dealer on each towel.
What moves the price of a hand towel
- Weight per piece, since a hand towel is mostly yarn and a heavier one uses more of it.
- Run length: loom set up and dyeing are spread over more pieces on a larger hand towel order.
- Matching a set: reordering to a held shade can take extra lab dip rounds.
- Hanging loops, woven bands or a jacquard motif, each an extra step on a low cost piece.
- Packing: set banding or a gift box costs more per piece than folding by the dozen.
Lead time for hand towels
Hand towels share their sample timing with the rest of a set, usually 7 to 14 days, and a hanging loop or new band adds little to it. Bulk hand towels usually follow in 30 to 60 days once the pre-production sample is signed. When a hand towel is reordered alone to match bath towels already in store, extra lab dip rounds can add days; the quote confirms the dates.
What we check on hand towels before shipment
- Loop anchoringLoops on sampled towels are pulled by hand, since a loop that tears out of the hem turns a towel into a return.
- Shade across the setHand towels are laid beside the bath towels and face cloths of the same set under daylight to catch a tone jump.
- Size across a stackTwelve towels from one carton are measured, because uneven cutting shows when a hotel stacks them on a shelf.
- Count per packInner packs and cartons are counted against the packing list, as short counts on a low cost item are easy to miss.
Questions buyers ask about hand towels
What size is a standard hand towel?
Around 40 by 70 centimetres is common in many markets. Many European ranges use 50 by 90 or 50 by 100, which elsewhere would pass for a small bath towel, and US ranges usually use 16 by 28 or 16 by 30 inches. Give the finished size for each market you sell in.
Can a hand towel be reordered to match bath towels already in store?
Yes, if the original lab dip, the dye recipe and a retained sample are kept. Expect a small difference between dye lots and approve the new lot against the retained piece in daylight. Ordering the whole set together is the surer route to a match.
How heavy should a hotel washroom hand towel be?
Usually toward the lighter end, around 400 to 450 GSM, because a light towel dries between room cleans and costs less to wash. Heavier towels feel better in the hand but spend longer in the dryer, a cost the laundry pays on every cycle.
Where should the hanging loop go on a hand towel?
Centred on one short side is usual, so the towel hangs straight with the border level. A corner loop hangs at an angle, which some kitchen ranges prefer. Either way the loop is caught inside the hem and bar tacked, and its length agreed to fit a standard hook.
Get a quote for hand towels
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