30+ buyer questions about yoga apparel manufacturing — answered in 1–3 sentences.

One single-floor production site in the Pearl River Delta, southern PRD region. The footer address block and the page's Schema.org LocalBusiness entry carry the postal locality — body answers keep it geography-light on purpose so this page reads as a buyer reference, not a regional pitch.

The line has run yoga-only since 2014. No off-season pivots into general T-shirts or fast fashion — twelve years of pattern, fabric, and squat-test verdicts on the same category, which is why our manufacturing capacity page lists yoga-specific sub-categories, not generic apparel.

Roughly two-thirds North America (US and CA), one-fifth EU plus UK, and the remainder split between AU, JP, and KR. We hold export documentation templates for CPSIA, REACH, ASTM, and Prop 65 — the live cert list is at /certifications/.

English and Mandarin every working hour. Written Japanese, Korean, and Spanish are handled by translation pass within the same business day — we keep template libraries for common quote elements, not a 24/7 multilingual desk.

50 pieces per SKU is the starting floor for both stock-fabric runs and custom orders. The full per-SKU breakdown — including the tier where unit price actually steps down — lives at /pricing-moq/.

No — each SKU must clear its own 50-piece floor (different cutter setups, different fabric rolls, different size sets). You can however mix multiple SKUs in a single container PO once each has cleared its floor; the container-mix logic is documented at /wholesale-yoga-apparel/.

Leggings sit roughly $6–$14 FOB, sports bras $4–$9, hoodies $12–$22 — bracketed by fabric grade, decoration, and run size. We don't publish a public rate card because it ages fast and gets gamed by traders; specced-brief quotes turn around in one business day.

30% T/T deposit on PO confirmation, 70% T/T against B/L copy is the standard. L/C at sight is supported on POs above USD 30k; PayPal and credit card are accepted for sample-stage charges only, not bulk balances.

Generic-pattern sample on stock fabric is typically USD 35–65 per piece. Full-custom (your tech-pack, your fabric, your decoration mix) runs USD 90–180 depending on the embroidery / sublimation stack. The full policy with edge-cases lives at /sample-policy/.

5–7 working days for stock-pattern on stock-fabric. 10–14 working days for full-custom from a clean tech-pack. Add 3–4 days if you need Pantone-matched dye-to-order on a colorway we don't already keep on the floor.

Yes — sample fees are 100% creditable against the matching bulk PO if it confirms within 60 days of sample sign-off. Past 60 days the credit lapses; we'll quote a fresh sample for any redesign because patterns and fabric supply have usually drifted by then.

No — samples are made-to-order and not warehoused, so we don't take returns. We'd rather rework: tell us exactly what missed (fit at the waistband, hand-feel on the gusset, print contrast on dark colorway) and a revision sample ships within 5 working days at half the original fee.

28–35 calendar days from approved sample + paid deposit to ex-works for runs of 50–2,000 pieces. The cycle is published step-by-step (fabric in → cut → sew → decoration → QC → pack) at /manufacturing-capacity/.

Yes — 18–22 days is achievable if the fabric is on the floor and the decoration is single-method (i.e. no embroidery + sublimation + heat-press stack on the same garment). Rush surcharge is roughly 8–12% of line cost; we quote it as a separate line item rather than bury it in the unit price.

September through early November adds 4–7 days across most apparel orders globally — it's the holiday surge. We hold a peak-season quota for repeat clients; new clients booking in August usually still ship inside the standard window if the brief is clean.

Around 80,000–100,000 pieces / month across leggings, bras, and tops. Heavier pieces (hoodies, jackets) consume more line hours, so a hoodie-heavy month drops total piece count by roughly 25%. Full capacity tables and historical throughput sit at /manufacturing-capacity/.

Nylon-spandex (75/25 or 80/20 blends) wins on hand-feel, drape, and recovery — premium leggings live here. Recycled polyester-spandex is cheaper, dyes brighter for sublimation, and is the right choice for printed collections; the side-by-side test at /fabric-selection/ walks through both with hand-feel notes.

The default fabric library — the rolls we keep on the floor — is OEKO-TEX Standard 100 certified. Certificate copies ride along with every shipment; the live list of certified mills (with mill code + cert serial) is documented at /certifications/.

Yes — GRS-certified recycled polyester (rPET) is available on order across most styles, with a 2–3 week sourcing lead-in if it's not already on the floor. Recycled nylon (econyl-class) is supported on bras and shorts; recovery is slightly softer than virgin, so we tune pattern allowance accordingly.

Yes — buyer-supplied fabric is supported provided it passes our in-house shrink + colorfastness pre-test (3 working days). If you nominate a mill we don't usually buy from, expect a 2-week qualification window before bulk cutting — we run a small calibration cut first to catch grain or stretch surprises.

Free swatch card of up to 12 fabrics by international courier; we'll ask for a courier account number to cover shipping, or you can pre-pay USD 25. Targeted color-card matching for a specific Pantone — useful when you're locking down a hero colorway — takes 3–5 additional working days.

Yes — woven, satin, silicone, heat-transfer, or recycled labels at neck, waist, or side seam. Custom hangtags, tear-away tags, and recycled polybags are all printed and applied in-house; the full label-and-tag matrix is at /oem-service/.

Yes — bulk-ship them to us 10 working days before sewing finishes, or have your printer drop-ship to our shipping zone. We don't charge a handling fee for client-supplied tags up to 2 kinds per SKU; beyond that there's a small assembly fee that we quote per piece, not per PO.

Plain recycled polybag is default. Custom-printed polybag (1- to 4-color logo), kraft mailer with brand sticker, and folded-card insert with washing-care instructions are all available on top of base packaging — pricing scales by quantity, not by complexity, so a 4-color polybag on 2,000 pcs is cheaper per unit than 1-color on 200.

Embroidery up to 12,000 stitches per logo position is in-house; beyond that we batch-outsource to a partner 20 minutes away (same QC standard, no markup). Combined embroidery + sublimation + heat-transfer on one garment is allowed but adds 4–6 days to lead time; the ODM decoration mix is documented at /odm-service/.

FOB nearest port is the default for ocean freight; EXW works if you have a freight forwarder you already trust; DDP (door-to-door, duties prepaid) is supported on US and selected EU lanes. CIF is offered but rarely the cheapest path — lane-by-lane recommendations sit at /supply-chain/.

Both. Sea is the default on full or half-container POs; air is standard for samples and rush orders under 200 kg; rail is competitive on EU-bound shipments at 18–22 days transit. We don't sell freight as a markup — you can book through us at cost-plus or simply use your own forwarder.

Yes — FNSKU + box labels printed at packing, suffocation-warning polybags, carton weight under FBA caps, ASIN-level QC photo set per SKU. We handle US, UK, DE, FR, IT, ES, and JP FBA prep today; new-marketplace policies vary, so confirm requirements with your account manager before the carton dimensions get locked.

On FOB / EXW the customs clearance is the buyer's forwarder's job; we provide commercial invoice, packing list, plus CO / FORM-E / FORM-A as the destination requires. On DDP we pre-pay duties at landed-cost — a fluctuation buffer of ±5% is reconciled on the final invoice, never re-quoted at delivery.

OEKO-TEX Standard 100 on fabric, BSCI on social compliance, ISO 9001 on the quality-management system — third-party audited and re-issued on schedule. Buyer-specific testing (CPSIA Section 101, REACH SVHC, Prop 65) is run per-PO at an SGS or Intertek lab the buyer nominates; the live list is at /certifications/.

AQL 2.5 (Major) is the contractual ceiling on every PO; the rolling 12-month measured rate sits at 0.7–1.1% on stock-pattern runs. We share the AQL inspection report with the B/L pack — no separate request needed, and the QC photo set is searchable by carton ID.

Photo evidence plus a sealed bag of the defective unit, sent within 14 days of arrival, opens a claim. Verified defect above 1% in a PO is refunded at line-item cost or replaced in the next batch — your call. Below 1% is buyer-absorbed (this is the industry-standard AQL band, not a Yogavendor-specific carve-out).

Mutual NDA available before tech-pack share — we sign one a week on average. We don't reverse-engineer competitor garments and we don't run branded look-alike requests (no "Lululemon-style" briefs). Production records are kept for 24 months and destroyed thereafter; partner factories on overflow runs sign back-to-back NDAs.