What is your minimum order per colour?

It depends on the base fabric and whether the shade is from our stock range or a custom lab dip. Stock shades start considerably lower than custom ones. Send the fabric and shade you have in mind and we will quote the exact minimum rather than a marketing number.

Can you match a colour I already sell?

Yes. Send a physical swatch, a hex value, or a colour reference from your existing supplier. We produce three lab dips against it and you approve the closest one on real fabric before bulk dyeing starts.

What does GSM actually change?

GSM is grams per square metre — the fabric's weight. Lower weights are lighter and more sheer with a fluid fall; higher weights are more opaque, warmer and hold their shape. Every base fabric in our range runs across a band rather than a single fixed weight, so you choose where in that band your product sits.

How long does production take?

Around 15 days from approved sample to finished goods for a standard order. Full sampling takes around 10 days and lab dips happen before that clock starts. If your deadline is tighter, tell us the date up front — we would rather say no than miss it.

What volume can you handle?

Our capacity is about 500,000 pieces per month, so repeat programmes and seasonal peaks do not push your next order down the queue. Small first orders are welcome too — capacity is there for when you scale.

Which countries do you ship to?

We currently export to the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. If your market is not on that list, ask — it usually just means we have not shipped there yet, not that we cannot.

Do you supply roll goods or finished hijabs?

Both. We can ship fabric by the roll for your own cutting and sewing, or deliver finished pieces cut, hemmed, labelled and retail-packed under your brand.

Can you produce our labels and packaging?

Yes — woven labels, care labels, hang tags, thank-you cards, retail sleeves and rigid gift boxes are all finished in-house. Upload your logo in the customization studio to see it placed on each one.

Which certifications can you provide?

The mill holds OEKO-TEX Standard 100 and BSCI. Certification availability for a specific order still depends on the fabric and dye route, so tell us which standard your market requires and we will confirm in writing what we can supply for that order.

EU Digital Product Passport: What Hijab Brands Must Prepare

The EU Digital Product Passport is usually discussed as a 2027 deadline, which makes it easy to file away. That framing misses the practical point: most of the data a textile passport requires is product-level information that originates upstream, at the fibre, dye and finishing stages — and building it into usable records takes longer than writing a policy. Brands that start collecting data with their next order will be ready. Brands that wait for the delegated act to be finalised will be asking their suppliers for records that were never kept. This guide covers what the passport requires, what the real timeline is, and where hijab-specific data comes from.

What a Textile Digital Product Passport Actually Requires

The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a digital record attached to a product, accessible by scanning a data carrier, that describes the product's composition, origin and circularity. For textiles, the requirements are being defined under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR).

Across the current guidance, the expected data set falls into a consistent set of fields:

Data field	What it covers	Where the data comes from
Product identification	Unique identifier, GTIN or equivalent, product model	Brand
Fibre composition	Percentage composition by fibre, including elastane	Mill and spinner
Origin and supply chain	Country of manufacture, and increasingly country of fibre origin	Mill and upstream suppliers
Chemical compliance	Restricted substances, SVHC screening, REACH alignment	Mill and dyehouse, via test reports
Care and durability	Care instructions, fibre-specific wash and wear data	Mill, based on testing
Circularity	Recyclability, recycled content, repairability where applicable	Mill and brand
Batch traceability	Batch or dye-lot references linking the product to production records	Mill

Phase 1 guidance circulating for 2026-2027 emphasises fibre composition, country of manufacture and chemical compliance as the first data set — the fields a mill holds directly. The final field list will be set by the delegated act, but the direction is consistent enough that no buyer needs to wait for the final text to start collecting.

The Timeline, Without the Hype

Widely shared claims that "every garment needs a passport on 1 January 2027" are not accurate. The realistic timeline is:

ESPR entered into force in 2024, establishing the framework and the DPP concept.
The Commission's 2025-2030 working plan indicates 2027 as the indicative year for the textile delegated act — the document that sets the exact requirements.
After adoption, a compliance window of roughly 18 months is expected before requirements apply to products placed on the market. Several trackers therefore place practical application around 2028-2029 rather than 2027.
One element is already live: the ban on destroying unsold consumer goods, which applies to textiles and footwear for large companies from July 2026. That rule is not about passports, but it is part of the same regulation and already affects how brands manage unsold stock.

The practical conclusion for a hijab brand: you do not need a passport this year, but the data collection window is now. Fibre composition, chemical compliance and traceability records take months to assemble across a supply chain, and they cannot be created retroactively with any credibility.

Why the Data Has to Come From Your Mill

A passport is not a document a brand writes. It is a record assembled from the production floor.

Consider what a single hijab order involves: fibre purchasing, knitting, dyeing in a specific dye lot, finishing, printing where applicable, cutting, sewing, inspection and packing. Each stage generates the data the passport needs — which fibre at what percentage, which dye lot, which tests passed, which batch number corresponds to which shipment. None of that can be reconstructed from an invoice, and none of it can be responsibly estimated.

This is the same principle that applies to certification claims: a certificate or a data point attaches to a specific product, fibre route or facility, never to a brand name, and it has to be verifiable.

What a Hijab's Passport Data Looks Like

Hijabs are simpler products than a lined jacket, which works in the supply chain's favour. A realistic first data set for a jersey or modal hijab looks like this:

Composition: for example, 95% cotton jersey with 5% elastane, stated by percentage.
Fabric specification: weight band in GSM, and the base fabric reference.
Origin: country of manufacture, with fibre origin where documented.
Chemical compliance: restricted substances test reports for the fabric and dye route, aligned to the standards your market requires.
Care: wash and care instructions supported by the mill's wash-test results for the finished piece, not just the greige fabric.
Traceability: batch or dye-lot references that connect the delivered goods to production and test records.

The value of assembling this once is that it serves several purposes at the same time: the passport requirement, the claims-substantiation rules that are already enforceable for consumer-facing environmental statements, and the questions wholesale buyers increasingly ask in supplier questionnaires outside the EU.

Factory Perspective: Building Product-Level Records

From a mill's side of the table, DPP readiness is an exercise in record discipline rather than new technology. Three practices do most of the work.

Batch retention and linkage. Retaining a physical standard for each dye lot, and linking it to the batch number that shipped, turns traceability from a promise into a lookup. This is the same discipline that keeps reorder shades consistent between seasons.

Test reports filed by product, not by year. A colour fastness or restricted substances report is only useful for a passport if it can be matched to the fabric, dye route and batch it tested. Filing reports against the product record, rather than a folder by date, is the difference between data and paperwork.

Composition records kept upstream. Fibre percentages come from yarn purchasing and knitting records. Where a branded or certified fibre is used, the supplier documentation belongs in the same file.

What a mill cannot provide is the brand-side data: the product identifier, the marketing name, the SKU structure. This is why the cleanest division of labour is explicit — the mill supplies the product-level composition, compliance and traceability data; the brand attaches identity and publishes the passport.

What Buyers Should Confirm Before Ordering

Whether the supplier can provide product-level data for the exact SKU being ordered — composition, GSM, dye route, batch reference — not a generic company profile.

The format of composition declarations: percentages by fibre, including elastane, stated on the fabric or product record.

Chemical compliance documentation covering restricted substances and SVHC screening, with test reports matched to the fabric and dye route.

The traceability granularity available: batch or dye-lot level, and how long records are retained.

Which certificates and reports can be shared with your compliance file, and which are held only at the facility level.

The division of responsibility in writing: what the mill supplies, what the brand supplies, and who updates the record when a supplier or process changes.

How reorders are handled: whether a repeat order carries its own batch data so the passport record stays accurate.

Frequently Asked Questions

When does the Digital Product Passport become mandatory for textiles? The textile delegated act is expected around 2027, with requirements applying roughly 18 months after adoption — so practical compliance is generally expected in 2028-2029, not January 2027. Data collection, however, starts now, because production records cannot be reconstructed later.

Do small hijab brands need to prepare too? Yes. Responsibility for placing a product on the EU market sits with the operator, regardless of brand size, and the data originates upstream. Small brands benefit most from starting with one clean data template for all orders.

Who is responsible for the passport data, the brand or the factory? The brand publishes the passport and owns the product identity. The mill supplies the production-level data — composition, compliance and traceability. Both sides need it in writing before the requirement applies.

Is the Digital Product Passport the same as an OEKO-TEX certificate? No. A certificate verifies a specific property of a tested article, such as restricted substances. The passport is a product-level data record that references such evidence. A certificate can feed a passport, but it does not replace one.

What if our supplier has no data from previous orders? Start with the next order. Specify that batch references, composition and test reports are delivered with each shipment, and keep them in a product file. Records built from the next order onward are usable; back-filling is not reliable.

Does the passport affect sales outside the EU? Directly, no — the requirement applies to products placed on the EU market. Indirectly, yes: major buyers and platforms increasingly align supplier questionnaires with the same data fields, so the records you build for Europe get requested elsewhere.

References

Caruma. "Digital Product Passport for Textiles - EU 2027 Requirements and Deadlines." dpp.caruma.io/digital-product-passport-for-textiles-eu-requirements-deadlines-2026/. Accessed 15 September 2026.

Portugal Clothing Factory. "Digital Product Passport (DPP): A Practical Guide for Fashion Brands in 2026." portugalclothingfactory.com/blog/digital-product-passport-dpp-a-practical-guide-for-fashion-brands-in-2026/. Published May 2026. Accessed 15 September 2026.

VAT Compliance. "Digital Product Passport (DPP) Requirements in the EU 2027 and Required Data for Compliance." vatcompliance.co/blog/digital-product-passport-dpp-requirements-in-the-eu-2027-and-required-data-for-compliance/. Published September 2026. Accessed 15 September 2026.

PassportCraft. "DPP Timeline 2026-2030: Every Product, Every Deadline." passportcraft.com/insights/dpp-timeline-2026-2030-every-deadline. Published March 2026. Accessed 15 September 2026.

TradeBeyond. "EU Digital Product Passport Guide: ESPR and DPP Explained." tradebeyond.com/blog/dpp-digital-product-passports-espr-definitive-guide. Published July 2026. Accessed 15 September 2026.