The Hem Fails Before the Towel Does

Most commercial towels are thrown away with the pile still sound. What went was the hem. It comes apart in an industrial dryer, the towel starts unravelling from the edge, and housekeeping pulls it out of circulation while the terry itself had another year in it. Nobody specifies for this. Weight gets specified, colour gets specified, yarn sometimes. The hem is assumed. WHAT TO ASK FOR A reinforced double stitched hem as standard. On gym, pool and other high-rotation stock, a double lock stitch, which holds under hot sanitising cycles and high tumble heat. If a quotation does not mention the hem, it is a plain single-stitch hem. That is not dishonest, it is just the default, and defaults are where towel programmes quietly lose money. The cost difference per piece is small. The difference in service life is not. TWO RELATED POINTS Bathrobe belt loops should be sewn through, not surface stitched, for the same reason. And order spare belts with the original order rather than after the problem appears — belts go missing continuously, and a robe without a belt is unusable. Bathmats need a wider hem than towels. They are stepped on, dragged with a foot and pulled up wet, and a narrow towel hem tears out. Kiran Global Exports is a terry towel manufacturer and exporter from Solapur, Maharashtra, producing through a partner mill weaving terry since 1972 — OEKO-TEX Standard 100, GRS, ISO 9001, MADE IN GREEN and BSCI certified. If you have a towel that failed, post it to us. We can usually tell you what went wrong from the piece itself, and whether it was the towel or the conditions. MOQ [your MOQ]. Lead time [your lead time]. Payment terms [your payment terms]. Kiran Global Exports Terry Towel Manufacturer & Exporter Solapur, Maharashtra, India 413004 exportskiranglobal@gmail.com +91 99839 11181 www.kiranglobalexports.com