Every buyer asks
these first.

Width follows the base cloth and the end use, and the end use is the part only you can supply. Cloth that is wrapped is not specified like cloth that goes to a cutting table. If you already buy something close to what you want, the fastest route by far is to send us that piece or its specification sheet — we will read the width off it and quote to match, rather than ask you to pick from a list that might not contain what you actually sell.

This is a decision to be made, not a fixed property of a design. The same print runs on more than one base cloth, and the base cloth changes how it handles, how it takes colour and what it costs you. Tell us what the cloth has to survive at your end — wrapped daily, cut and stitched, washed how often — and the sensible options go in front of you. The one you choose is written into the quotation.

The length your market wears, which is exactly why we ask instead of publishing one. Piece length is the most market-specific figure in this trade: it varies between ranges, and it varies between two buyers of the same range. If you are restocking, send the measurement of what you sell now. If you are entering a market, measure the piece already selling there and work from that rather than from a number on a website.

Often, and the honest word is close rather than identical — be wary of anyone who promises identical before they have handled the cloth. Post the piece if you can. If you cannot, photograph it flat in daylight with a coin or a ruler in the frame so the motif scale is readable. We will tell you what can be matched on the ground and the motif and what would have to change, before you spend anything on sampling.

The clock starts at strike-off approval rather than at your first email, and a design we already hold screens for moves differently from one being developed off your artwork. If you have a fixed date — a season, a festival, a booked container, a buyer of your own waiting — put it in the enquiry and we will tell you whether it is realistic. We would rather decline a date than miss one you have planned around.

Folded, made into lots, baled and marked as agreed for your order. What changes it is the route more than the buyer: cloth handled several times across a land border is not packed like cloth that goes into a container and is opened once at the far end. Tell us the destination and how the consignment travels, and packing is specified in the quotation rather than assumed on the floor.

We supply India, Nepal, Indonesia. For anything beyond those three, ask us rather than assume — we would rather say so plainly than take an order we cannot serve properly. For the markets we do supply, the route, the documents and the timing are agreed per consignment and written into the quotation, with the destination city factored in from the enquiry onwards.

Within one working day. The mill is open Mon to Sat, 10 am to 7 pm IST, so a message sent on a Sunday reaches us on Monday morning in Surat. If it carries the design, the quantity and the destination, the first reply can be a real answer instead of a request for the details we still need.