Private-Label Clothing Manufacturer for UK Boutiques & Brands

The United Kingdom now takes its own decisions on customs and product rules, so imports into Britain are handled separately from imports into the European Union: a separate tariff schedule, separate declarations, and its own labelling requirements. If you sell into both markets, expect two paperwork files rather than one — and tell us which destination each carton is going to, because we label accordingly.

A trade agreement between India and the UK has been agreed, and it improves the terms on which Indian-made textiles and garments enter Britain. As with any agreement of this kind, the benefit arrives in stages rather than all at once, and the rate you actually pay depends on the commodity code attached to your garment, the phase of the schedule you are importing into, the origin status of the fabric, and the certificate or declaration that travels with the consignment.

So we deliberately do not quote duty figures. Confirm the current rate for your product code, the origin document your agent needs, and how the goods must be labelled in the UK with your customs agent before you place the order — not after. What we do is make the file easy to claim with:

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  Commercial documents

  Commercial invoice with commodity codes and declared value, packing list with carton marks, weights and measures.

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  Transport

  Bill of lading for sea shipments, airway bill for air, insurance certificate on CIF terms.

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  Origin

  Certificate of Origin issued in India; if your agent needs a specific declaration or attestation to claim a preference under the agreement, send us the form and we complete it.

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  Product marking

  Fibre-composition and country-of-origin labels in English, in the format UK buyers use, on a permanent label.

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  On request

  Mill test reports, restricted-substance test reports, pre-shipment inspection — arranged before production begins, not after the cartons are sealed.

Sea, Nhava Sheva → Southampton / Felixstowe

typically 25–32 days on the water

Door to door by sea

6–8 weeks including Pushkar collection and clearance

Air freight

3–6 days door to door for short runs and top-ups

Sampling

7–14 days per round, couriered the same week

Hand-block printing is carved, aligned and pressed by hand — a wooden block inked and struck across the cloth, one pass at a time, in a craft that has lived in Rajasthan for generations. Because a person does the work and not a machine, no two repeats are identical: a register line sits a hair off, a colour carries a touch deeper where the block landed harder. That variation is the point, and it is what makes a hand-blocked run read as a collection rather than a mill output.

It suits how British independents sell. A boutique in a coastal town, a market town or a city side street is usually selling a story as much as a garment — who made it, how, and why the next batch will not be exactly the same. Small-batch character is the honest answer to that, and it is the opposite of a bulk catalogue print arriving by the container load.

It also fits the demand. UK resort and holiday wear sells on natural fibres and easy silhouettes: cotton voile and poplin, pure linen and linen blends, Tencel and rayon, in kaftans, maxi dresses, tunics, cover-ups and co-ord sets that travel from a British summer to a summer elsewhere. Our hand-block printed range is built for exactly that, and prints can be redrawn to your palette and repeat so your collection is yours alone.

Minimum order

50 pieces per style, per colourway

Run size

Up to 5,000 pieces per style

Terms

FOB Mumbai or CIF your UK port

Payment

Deposit to begin production, balance before dispatch, by bank transfer

Fifty pieces per style, per colourway, split across your size set in whatever ratio sells in your shop. Two styles at fifty each is a perfectly good first order, and it is how most of our long-standing accounts began. Above five hundred pieces per style the rate improves; collections are quoted above two thousand, and multi-style programmes are costed together — the bulk and wholesale orders page sets out how those larger runs are planned and paid for.

Customization is the default rather than the exception: our own blocks and prints, or yours, in your colours, on the cloth and weight you specify. Plan on seven to ten weeks from first conversation to cartons at your door for a straightforward cotton style, and twelve to fourteen with custom printing, embroidery or redrawn blocks. Start from the homepage to browse the sample catalogues, or send us the styles, quantities and your delivery city and we will come back with a landed-cost estimate rather than only an ex-factory price.