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Shaoxing Mujia Textile specifies stitch pitch alongside GSM on its quilted cotton range, because the size of the quilted cell decides warmth. Seven patterns, 340-390 GSM, 140-150 cm, from US$3.65 per metre at 300 m.

Zhuji, China – November 12, 2026 – Shaoxing Mujia Textile has put stitch pitch on the specification sheet for its quilted cotton range, alongside the usual GSM (grams per square metre) figure, on the argument that a quilted cloth’s warmth is set by the size of the cells the quilting creates rather than by the weight of the cloth.

A 340 GSM quilted cotton can be warmer in use than a 390 GSM plain cotton of the same fibre. Weight measures mass. Warmth measures how much still air the cloth can hold against a body that is trying to heat it, and still air is what a quilt is for. On a scale the plain cloth wins; on a person in a room the quilted one does.

The mechanism is the cell. Each quilted quality is three layers: a face cloth, a fill and a back. The quilting stitch binds them and divides the fill into compartments. A cloth quilted at 10 cm pitch holds seven cells across a 70 cm panel; the same cloth at 5 cm pitch holds fourteen. Smaller cells restrict internal air circulation, so the air the body has warmed stays where it was warmed. Two quilted cloths at identical weight can therefore perform differently, and the difference is visible on the order as one number.

The fill is a bonded layer rather than a loose batt. Loose fibre migrates: it clumps at the low points and thins at the high points, and after ten washes the garment has cold patches. Bonding limits migration to the cell it starts in. Adding fill does not keep adding warmth either. Past a certain thickness the fill compresses under its own weight and the air cells collapse, so the garment gains weight and loses insulation at the same time.

The programme runs 340-390 GSM in 100% cotton at 140-150 cm, in seven patterns: Q-01, Q-02, Q-03, Q-04, Q-06, Q-07 and Q-08. There is no Q-05. That pattern was retired and the number was not reissued. A new pattern is a new plate and a fresh strike-off, a trial run made before bulk, so it carries a cost and a lead time.

“A buyer who specifies 360 GSM has specified the weight and left the warmth to the quilting machine,” says Emily Zhou, founder and director of Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd. “The pitch is the number that decides how the cloth performs, and it costs nothing to put it on the order.”

Width is also a relevant specification. A bedspread at 150 cm needs no joining seam down the middle, which removes a labour step and a visible line at the same time. The same width serves quilted jackets, gilets and liners, where the cloth is the insulation itself.

The mill weaves the face and the back in Fengqiao, Zhuji, on 30 Lenado air-jet looms in a 5,000 square metre shed, about five million metres a year. It does not dye and does not quilt. Dyeing and quilting run at partner mills, and the mill holds the pattern approval and the AQL 2.5 inspection, the acceptable quality limit sampling level, on the buyer’s side of the transaction.

Running lead time is about 15 days after colour confirmation, and 300 m per colour is the standard minimum.

Specifications and the seven patterns are on the quilted cotton page, https://mujiatextile.com/quilted-cotton-fabric-manufacturer.html.

About Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd.

Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd. is a weaver of cotton and velvet fabrics in Zhuji, Zhejiang, founded in 2012. It runs 30 Lenado air-jet looms in a 5,000 square metre plant and produces about five million metres of woven fabric a year. Standard terms are 300 m per colour, about 15 days after colour confirmation, FOB China port, with AQL 2.5 inspection and a four-point check on every roll. Company profile and full range at the Shaoxing Mujia Textile website, https://mujiatextile.com.

Media Contact:
Name: Emily Zhou
Company: Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd.
Email: shaoxingtextile@coze.email
Phone: +86 151 5752 5252
Address: No.5 Wenchuang Road, Fengqiao Town, Zhuji, Zhejiang 311811, China
Website: https://mujiatextile.com

Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd. publishes the yarn construction behind its 280 GSM cotton canvas: 10S/3 three-ply, not a bulked single.

Zhuji, China – November 12, 2026 – Shaoxing Mujia Textile has published the yarn construction behind its 280 GSM (grams per square metre) cotton canvas, on the argument that the weight figure alone cannot distinguish a three-ply canvas from a bulked single that weighs and measures the same.

The distinction sits in the specification code. 10S/3 does not mean size 10. It means three plies of a 10-count single yarn twisted together into one strand. A buyer reading only the GSM is reading the half of the specification that both a three-ply cloth and a bulked single can satisfy.

The construction is what the cloth is for. A single 10S yarn at 280 GSM would need an unusually dense sett, the number of yarn ends per inch, and the resulting cloth would be stiff in one direction and slack in the other. Three plies twisted together produce a round, balanced strand that resists abrasion from every angle, which is what a bag, an apron or a work jacket asks of it. 10S/3 in the warp and 10S/3 in the weft, the lengthwise and crosswise yarns, is a balanced construction: same yarn both ways, so the cloth behaves the same along and across, takes a fold without cracking and a seam without puckering.

Below 240 GSM the same construction reads as a light twill, fine for shirting and too floppy for a tote. Above 320 GSM the plies start to show at a fold and the cloth becomes a tarpaulin rather than a canvas. 280 GSM sits where the cloth holds a shape when cut but still folds at a seam allowance. That is the working definition of canvas, and it is why the number repeats across the industry even though the constructions behind it differ.

Three checks separate the two, and none needs a lab.

Fray one edge of a 10 cm square with a thumbnail and count the strands. A 10S/3 shows three distinct plies twisted together. A bulked single shows one strand with a soft, hairy surface and no visible twist structure.

Rub the frayed edge between finger and thumb twenty times. The three-ply holds together. The single pills and sheds.

Fold the square sharply, press the crease with a thumbnail and open it. A balanced 10S/3 fold shows a clean line. A single-ply fold shows a white break along the crease where the fibres have separated.

“Most buyers check the weight and stop,” says Emily Zhou, founder and director of Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd. “The weight is the easy number to state. The ply count is the one that decides how the bag holds its corners over a season.”

The canvas runs 280 GSM, 8.3 oz, 150 cm wide, 100% cotton, in 55 solid colours. Width matters more on a bag than on a garment, because a bag panel is cut as one piece and a 2 cm shortfall means a narrower bag rather than a smaller seam allowance. The finished width is what counts, not the nominal width in an email.

End uses are workwear, bags, aprons, home textiles, caps and sneaker uppers, where the balanced construction matters because the cloth is cut on the bias and stretched over a last. The mill does not run a coated version. Water repellency is a finish applied at a partner mill and it changes the hand of the cloth.

The mill weaves in Fengqiao, Zhuji, on 30 Lenado air-jet looms in a 5,000 square metre shed, about five million metres a year, and has done since 2012. It weaves and does not dye. Dyeing runs at partner mills and the mill holds the shade approval and the AQL 2.5 inspection, the acceptable quality limit sampling level, with a four-point check on every roll.

Running lead time is about 15 days after colour confirmation, with 300 m per colour as the standard minimum.

Full specification and the 55-colour card are on the cotton canvas page, https://mujiatextile.com/cotton-canvas-twill-fabric-manufacturer.html.

About Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd.

Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd. is a weaver of cotton and velvet fabrics in Zhuji, Zhejiang, founded in 2012. It runs 30 Lenado air-jet looms in a 5,000 square metre plant and produces about five million metres of woven fabric a year, with AQL 2.5 inspection and a four-point check on every roll. Company profile and full range at the Shaoxing Mujia Textile website, https://mujiatextile.com.

Media Contact:
Name: Emily Zhou
Company: Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd.
Email: shaoxingtextile@coze.email
Phone: +86 151 5752 5252
Address: No.5 Wenchuang Road, Fengqiao Town, Zhuji, Zhejiang 311811, China
Website: https://mujiatextile.com

Shaoxing Mujia Textile runs digital print on cotton with no screen fee, but pre-treatment, ink coverage and order size still set the price. The programme offers 20 floral designs on double gauze and 108 colourways on poplin.

Zhuji, China – November 12, 2026 – Shaoxing Mujia Textile has moved its cotton print programme entirely to digital, which removes the screen fee that rotary printing charges per colour, and has published where the cost goes instead: pre-treatment, ink coverage and order size.

Rotary screen printing needs one engraved screen per colour. Six colours means six screens, each a fixed charge that exists whether the run is 300 metres or 30,000. On a small order the screens can cost more than the cloth. Digital printing has no screen: the design goes from a file to a print head, and a small run becomes viable.

The screen fee does fall, and the total cost does not fall by the same amount. The press still has to be set up, the ink still has to be bought, and the cloth still has to be prepared. Those three costs do not disappear when the screen does. They stop being visible as separate lines on an invoice, which is not the same thing.

Pre-treatment is the first. Cotton does not accept pigment or reactive ink without a preparation step: the cloth is padded with a treatment bath that makes the fibre receptive, then dried. Skip it and the print looks correct on the day and fades in the first wash. The cost is per metre and does not fall with order size, which makes it the step most likely to be cut by a supplier quoting an unusually low price.

Ink coverage is the second. Digital ink is charged by volume, and volume follows how much of the surface is covered. A small motif on a cream ground uses a fraction of the ink a full-coverage floral does. On the double gauze base, M4011 greige at 140 GSM (grams per square metre) and 135 cm, the digital print surcharge runs about US$0.37 per metre on top of the greige cost. That figure assumes normal coverage. A full-bleed dark ground can double it. A single print price for every design is an average across designs, and a design with heavy coverage may cost more than that average.

Order size is the third, and it is the one buyers notice. Setup is a fixed cost, so it spreads across the run. The same cloth, the same print and the same lead time carry a different price at 300 m and at 2,000 m, and the difference is arithmetic rather than negotiation. A buyer ordering 300 m in five colourways pays setup five times; a buyer ordering 1,500 m in one colourway pays it once. The second buyer gets a cheaper garment and a narrower range, and that trade is the actual decision.

“Digital printing removed the screen fee and buyers assumed the cost had gone,” says Emily Zhou, founder and director of Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd. “It moved. Pre-treatment and ink volume are per metre and they do not fall with order size, so a small order is still a small order.”

The programme carries 20 floral designs at 3 colourways each on the double gauze base, plus a separate European collection on 100% cotton poplin at 18 designs and 108 colourways. Neither number is a ceiling. With no screen to engrave, a design that is not on the list costs a file and a strike-off rather than a plate fee and a higher minimum. The list is what is ready; the range is whatever artwork arrives.

Using a ready design skips the strike-off cycle and shortens lead time. Using original artwork costs one extra round trip and returns a design specific to the buyer.

Before approving a strike-off, buyers are advised to print a 30 cm length, wash it at 40 C with a detergent that contains no optical brightener, and dry it flat. Compare against the unwashed strike-off. A colour shift beyond one step on the grey scale, the standard card used to rate colour change, means the pre-treatment or the fixation was short, and crocking, colour rubbing off onto a white cloth, means the same. Then measure the design’s position against the selvedge: digital print can drift over a long run, and a motif sitting 5 mm off at metre 250 leaves the cutting layout wrong for the second half of the roll.

The mill weaves in Fengqiao, Zhuji, on 30 Lenado air-jet looms in a 5,000 square metre shed, about five million metres a year. It does not print. Digital printing runs at partner mills and the mill holds the strike-off and colour approval between the buyer and them, with AQL 2.5 inspection, the acceptable quality limit sampling level, and a four-point check on every roll.

Specifications and both print collections are on the digital print page, https://mujiatextile.com/digital-print.html.

About Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd.

Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd. is a weaver of cotton and velvet fabrics in Zhuji, Zhejiang, founded in 2012. It runs 30 Lenado air-jet looms in a 5,000 square metre plant and produces about five million metres of woven fabric a year. Standard terms are 300 m per colour, 10 to 15 days after colour confirmation, FOB China port, with AQL 2.5 inspection and a four-point check on every roll. Company profile and full range at the Shaoxing Mujia Textile website, https://mujiatextile.com.

Media Contact:
Name: Emily Zhou
Company: Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd.
Email: shaoxingtextile@coze.email
Phone: +86 151 5752 5252
Address: No.5 Wenchuang Road, Fengqiao Town, Zhuji, Zhejiang 311811, China
Website: https://mujiatextile.com

Shaoxing Mujia Textile holds 182 proven dye recipes on its cotton double gauze range, so a 300 m order can take any shade on the card without paying for a custom dye lot. M4011 runs 125 GSM at 135 cm.

Zhuji, China – November 12, 2026 – Shaoxing Mujia Textile has built its cotton double gauze colour range to 182 references, all of them shades the dyehouse has already run and holds a proven recipe for, so that a 300 m order can be placed without paying for a custom dye lot.

The number is often read as stock. It is not. Nothing sits in a warehouse at 182 colours. What sits on file is 182 recipes: the dye concentration, the temperature curve and the wash-off sequence that produced an approved shade the first time. When a buyer orders reference 47, the dyehouse pulls recipe 47 and runs a fresh lot against it. The lot matches the card because the recipe is proven, not because the cloth has been ageing in a corner.

The economics behind a deep card are in the change-over. Every colour change costs a machine clean-down: vessel wash, pipe flush, and the first metres of the new lot, which run to waste until the shade stabilises. On a 300 m order that waste is a meaningful share of the run. On a 3,000 m order it disappears. A mill that holds twelve colours has not saved the change-over cost, it has never paid it, which means every order it accepts has to be either large or expensive.

The programme runs two qualities. M4011 is 100% cotton at 125 GSM (grams per square metre) and 135 cm, with a natural crinkle that comes from the weave itself rather than from a finish, and it carries the full 182 references. A shade outside the card is a lab dip, a small sample dyed against a submitted reference, at the same 300 m minimum. M4011-1 is the printed version on the same base construction at 140 GSM, digitally printed, with twenty floral designs held at three colourways each, so sixty print references are ready to ship. Digital print needs no engraved screen, so sixty is what is ready rather than what is possible; a buyer’s own artwork runs at the same 300 m minimum with no plate fee.

“Nobody needs 182 colours, and nobody orders 182,” says Emily Zhou, founder and director of Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd. “A buyer orders three and reorders two. The depth is there so that the three can be any three, at 300 metres, without a custom lot behind them.”

Minimums work per shade, not per order. A buyer building a five-colour capsule takes 300 m of each rather than 1,500 m of one. Splitting 300 m across three colours does not work, because the change-over is charged per colour and 100 m does not cover it.

The infant and toddler category asks a different question, about skin contact. M4011 is produced to a specification the mill documents on request; the mill does not print a certification claim on the product page because the certificate is held by the dyehouse rather than by the weaver. A buyer who asks receives the holder’s name and the certificate number and can verify both.

The mill weaves in Fengqiao, Zhuji, on 30 Lenado air-jet looms in a 5,000 square metre shed, about five million metres a year, weaving since 2012. It does not dye: the dyeing and the 182 recipes sit at partner mills, and the mill holds the shade approval between the buyer and those partners.

Specifications for both qualities are on the cotton double gauze page, https://mujiatextile.com/cotton-double-gauze-manufacturer.html.

**About Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd.**

Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd. is a weaver of cotton and velvet fabrics in Zhuji, Zhejiang, founded in 2012. It runs 30 Lenado air-jet looms in a 5,000 square metre plant and produces about five million metres of woven fabric a year. Standard terms are 300 m per colour, about 15 days after colour confirmation, FOB China port, with AQL 2.5 inspection, the acceptable quality limit sampling level, and a four-point check on every roll. Company profile and full range at the Shaoxing Mujia Textile website, https://mujiatextile.com.

Media Contact:
Name: Emily Zhou
Company: Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd.
Email: shaoxingtextile@coze.email
Phone: +86 151 5752 5252
Address: No.5 Wenchuang Road, Fengqiao Town, Zhuji, Zhejiang 311811, China
Website: https://mujiatextile.com

Shaoxing Mujia Textile quotes burnout velvet per design, not per fixed GSM, because the paste that dissolves the viscose removes a share of the face set by the artwork. The greige, the 80/20 viscose-nylon blend and the 140 cm width stay fixed.

Zhuji, China – November 12, 2026 – Shaoxing Mujia Textile has moved its burnout velvet line onto per-design quotation, after concluding that a single finished weight cannot be quoted honestly for a process in which the artwork decides how much cloth is left.

Burnout, also called devore, is a print process rather than a weave. A chemical paste is printed onto a blended greige, the undyed cloth as it comes off the loom, and destroys one of the two fibres: the cellulose dissolves where the paste sits and the nylon stays. What is left is a sheer ground in the printed areas and pile where the print did not reach. How much fibre goes is a direct function of how much of the face the design covers. A large floral that removes 60% of the surface leaves a far lighter cloth than a scattered dot that removes 20%, from the same greige, on the same loom, through the same dyehouse.

Three figures stay fixed. The burnout greige runs 220 g per square metre before finishing, against 240 g for the plain velvet behind it. The blend is 80% viscose and 20% nylon, which is the condition that makes the process work: viscose dissolves and nylon does not, and a change in the ratio stops the design resolving. The finished width is 140 cm. Finished weight, drape and opacity follow the design.

A buyer who writes “180 GSM (grams per square metre) burnout” on a purchase order has fixed a number the process does not fix. 180 is reachable on one design at one coverage and will not repeat at the same figure on another. The workable order reads: greige 220 g, 80/20 viscose-nylon, 140 cm, design reference, finished weight to be confirmed against the approved strike-off. A strike-off is the trial print made before bulk, and on a burnout it is the specification.

“The strike-off is the reliable answer to what the cloth will weigh,” says Emily Zhou, founder and director of Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd. “We can state the greige weight to the gram and still refuse a finished weight until the artwork is on the table, because both statements are true at once.”

The pattern library covers florals, paisley-damask, animal, Chinese phoenix-peony and rhinestone-set pieces, the rhinestone range carrying references BR-11 to BR-13, all re-colourable and all developable from a buyer’s own artwork. Devore is a paste print, so a new design is a strike-off rather than an engraved plate: no plate fee and no raised minimum.

Two further velvet lines sit alongside the burnout. The solid-dyed quality runs at about 250 GSM and 140 cm from US$3.20 per metre and is held in 24 repeating colours plus more than 40 shades on the card. The stretch quality, a 95% polyester and 5% elastane at 250 GSM and 155-160 cm, is stocked in 76 colours ready to ship from US$2.10 per metre; a custom colour on that quality moves the minimum to 2,000 m.

The mill weaves the greige on 30 Lenado air-jet looms in Fengqiao, Zhuji, at about five million metres a year, and does not run the burnout itself. The paste printing, washing and dyeing happen at partner mills, and the mill holds the strike-off approval between the buyer and those partners. That is why the greige weight can be stated to the gram while the finished weight waits for the design.

Specifications for all three velvet qualities are on the burnout velvet page, https://mujiatextile.com/burnout-velvet.html.

About Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd.

Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd. is a weaver of cotton and velvet fabrics in Zhuji, Zhejiang, founded in 2012. It runs 30 Lenado air-jet looms in a 5,000 square metre plant and produces about five million metres of woven fabric a year. Standard terms are 300 m per colour, about 15 days after colour confirmation, FOB China port, with AQL 2.5 inspection, the acceptable quality limit sampling level, and a four-point check on every roll. Company profile and full range at the Shaoxing Mujia Textile website, https://mujiatextile.com.

Media Contact:
Name: Emily Zhou
Company: Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd.
Email: shaoxingtextile@coze.email
Phone: +86 151 5752 5252
Address: No.5 Wenchuang Road, Fengqiao Town, Zhuji, Zhejiang 311811, China
Website: https://mujiatextile.com/burnout-velvet.html

Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd. has consolidated its corduroy range to three constructions and puts elastane in only one. MJ138, the 8-wale 340 GSM bottom-weight, carries 3% spandex; the fine and wide wale stay 100% cotton.

Zhuji, China – November 12, 2026 – Shaoxing Mujia Textile has consolidated its corduroy range to three constructions on its 30 Lenado air-jet looms, and put elastane in only one of them. MJ138, the mid wale (wale being the corduroy ridge) at about 8 wales per inch and 340 GSM (grams per square metre), carries 3% spandex. MJ128 at 12.8 wales per inch and 145 GSM, and MJ555 at 5.5 wales per inch and 290-300 GSM, are both 100% cotton.

The reason is the load the fabric carries in wear. Corduroy is a pile fabric, and pile has almost no recovery of its own. A 100% cotton corduroy trouser takes repeated compression at the seat and the knee, and the pile crushes rather than springs back; within a season the garment bags where it is sat on. Three percent spandex returns the structure without turning the cloth into a knit, and the pile still reads as pile.

“The elastane is in the trouser weight because the trouser is the garment that sits down,” says Emily Zhou, founder and director of Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd. “A dress does not need it and a jacket does not want it.”

The two pure-cotton constructions are specified for different garments. MJ128 at 145 GSM is a shirting weight: it drapes, adds little bulk at a seam, and is bought for shirt dresses and blouses. MJ555 at 290-300 GSM carries the pronounced ridge that trucker jackets and utility coats are built on, where the fabric has to hold a shape rather than recover one. Adding elastane to either would change the hand and complicate the finishing route without solving a problem the garment has.

Stretch also changes what the dyehouse has to control. Elastane degrades at a lower temperature than cotton, so a cotton-spandex quality runs a narrower heat-setting window than a 100% cotton one, and the finished lot is measured for recovery as well as for shade. All three constructions are sanforized – pre-shrunk by a mechanical process – to 3% or less in the warp and 2% or less in the weft after one AATCC 135 wash, the standard home-laundering test, with a production target of 2% and 1.5%.

Wale count is quoted as a number rather than a band name, because the bands are not standardised across the trade: one supplier’s fine wale is another’s mid. Each construction carries a stated wales-per-inch figure, a weight tolerance and a usable width on the quotation, and the same three figures are restated on the shipping documents, so the cloth that arrives can be measured against the cloth that was ordered.

Specifications for each construction are on the corduroy page, https://mujiatextile.com/corduroy.html.

About Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd.

Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd. is a woven cotton mill in Zhuji, Zhejiang, founded in 2012. It runs 30 Lenado air-jet looms in a 5,000 square metre plant and produces about five million metres of woven cotton a year. Standard terms are 300 m per colour, roughly 10 days after colour confirmation, FOB China port, with inspection under the company’s own 12-point mill standard and usable width and GSM restated on every shipping document. Company profile and full range at the Shaoxing Mujia Textile website, https://mujiatextile.com.

Media Contact:
Name: Emily Zhou
Company: Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd.
Email: shaoxingtextile@coze.email
Phone: +86 151 5752 5252
Address: Zhuji, Zhejiang, China
Website: https://mujiatextile.com/corduroy.html

Shaoxing Mujia Textile added ten air-jet looms at its Zhuji plant this year and rebuilt its poplin card to 154 dyed shades. Poplin, broadcloth and voile are all plain weave; yarn count, sett and finish decide which garment each suits.

Zhuji, China — November 12, 2026 — Shaoxing Mujia Textile added ten Lenado air-jet looms at its Zhuji plant in March, taking the count to 30, and rebuilt its M60201 poplin shade card to 154 dyed colours. The looms went in to hold more shades in stock rather than dye them against order. The new looms serve three plain weaves — poplin, broadcloth and voile — which share one thing: a plain weave, one warp thread over one weft thread. That is where the similarity ends. Treated as interchangeable, the three produce cloth that presses flat where drape was wanted, or reads transparent where a shirt front was needed.

The differences sit in three places — yarn count, ends per inch (warp threads per inch of cloth), and what happens after weaving.

Yarn count sets the surface

Fine yarns produce a smooth, almost cool surface; coarser yarns leave a visible grain. Poplin traditionally uses a fine warp against a slightly heavier weft, which produces the characteristic rib across the width and a dry, crisp hand. Voile goes finer still, with a low sett (fewer threads per inch in both directions), so light passes through and the cloth reads semi-sheer. Broadcloth sits between the two in density but is finished harder, which closes the surface and gives it a subtle lustre.

What each one does in a garment

Poplin is the usual choice where a collar and a placket have to hold. At 100–140 GSM (grams per square metre) it presses flat, takes a sharp crease and stays there through a working day — which is why it dominates dress shirts.

Voile does the opposite. It is chosen for what it lets through: summer blouses, scarves, layered dresses where the fabric is meant to move and partially reveal. Voile is semi-sheer, so it is unsuitable where a shirt front needs opacity.

Broadcloth sits between the two. It is dense enough for structure, soft enough for a dress, and finished to a slight sheen. It suits collections that span shirts and dresses on one quality.

How can the three be told apart on a swatch table?

Held to the light, a voile swatch lets print read through it, a light poplin passes light but blurs shapes, and broadcloth passes nothing. Along the selvedge, poplin shows a fine crosswise rib, broadcloth a flat closed face, voile an open grid.

Usable width, not nominal width

Buyers compare FOB (free on board) per metre and stop there. The number that decides the garment cost is usable width, which is measured after finishing rather than before.

A cloth sold as 150 cm that finishes at 146 cm loses four centimetres of cuttable width. On a 3,000 m order, for example, that is roughly 80 m paid for and unusable for pattern laying — about 2.7% of the order.

Shaoxing Mujia Textile quotes usable width, not nominal; its poplin is 146 cm usable, measured after finishing. “The ten looms and the 154 shades are one decision,” says Emily Zhou, founder and director of Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd. “A buyer who has to wait for a lab dip is a buyer who orders somewhere else.”

Where the programme sits

The M60201 cotton poplin runs 100–140 GSM at 146 cm usable width. The band is wide because the same cloth serves two customers — blouse weight at the lower end, skirt panel at the upper. The 154 shades on the card are dyed ahead of order and held in stock; a shade outside the card is a lab dip (a small dye sample matched against the customer’s reference) and a lead time rather than a new product.

Printed poplin is a separate line: the 8135 floral at 90–120 GSM on 145 cm. The line runs digital throughout, so the six ready colourways mark a starting point rather than the range limit; artwork outside them needs no screen or plate preparation.

Both lines run at 300 m per colour, custom shades included.

The M60201 specification, including the sampling and lab dip sequence, is set out on the [cotton poplin](https://mujiatextile.com/cotton-poplin-fabric.html) product page.

About Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd.

Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd. is a woven cotton mill in Zhuji, Zhejiang, founded in 2012. It runs 30 Lenado air-jet looms in a 5,000 m² plant and produces about five million metres of woven cotton a year, poplin and broadcloth among the qualities woven and inspected on the same floor. Standard terms are 300 m per colour, roughly 10–15 days after colour confirmation, FOB (free on board) China port, with AQL (acceptable quality limit) 2.5 inspection and a four-point check on every roll. Company profile and full range at [mujiatextile.com](https://mujiatextile.com).

Media Contact:
Name: Emily Zhou
Company: Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd.
Email: shaoxingtextile@coze.email
Phone: +86 151 5752 5252
Address: No.5 Wenchuang Road, Fengqiao Town, Zhuji, Zhejiang 311811, China
Website: https://mujiatextile.com

Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd. has opened a 24-colour stock programme covering burnout velvet, corduroy, poplin, canvas and yarn-dyed fabric, with a 300-metre minimum and a 10-day lead time on stock shades.

ZHUJI, CN — November 12, 2026 — Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd. has opened a 24-colour stock programme across its core pile and woven ranges, lowering the minimum order on stock shades to 300 metres and holding a 10-day lead time for repeat orders.

The programme covers burnout velvet, corduroy, cotton poplin, canvas and yarn-dyed fabric, the five ranges the mill has produced for export since 2012. Stock shades are held both as greige and as finished roll, which means a buyer can reserve a colourway without committing to a full dye lot or waiting for a new warp.

For small and mid-sized apparel programmes, the change removes the two costs that most often block an order: a dye-lot minimum that exceeds first-season demand, and a lead time that does not fit a compressed buying calendar.

“We built the stock programme because the orders we were losing were not large orders,” said Emily Zhou of Shaoxing Mujia Textile. “They were 400-metre orders from brands that wanted to test a colour before committing to a season. Those buyers could not wait six weeks for a dye lot, and they could not carry 3,000 metres of risk. Holding 24 shades in stock lets them start small and scale.”

The mill runs its own weaving and finishing, with roughly 5 million metres of annual capacity across owned and partnered looms. Keeping dyeing and finishing under one roof is what allows a shade to be repeated across separate orders, the company said, and it is the most common failure point when pile fabric is sourced through intermediaries.

Burnout velvet remains the mill’s most technically demanding line. The process uses an alkali etch that destroys cellulose fibres while leaving polyester intact, so the cloth must be a blend rather than 100 percent synthetic, and pattern definition depends on both screen precision and concentration control. The company publishes measured shrinkage and colour fastness figures per quality rather than describing performance in general terms.

For export buyers, documentation is supplied per destination: cotton traceability records for United States programmes under the UFLPA, and OEKO-TEX Standard 100 and GRS certification with verifiable certificate numbers for European buyers.

Stock shades ship from Zhuji, Zhejiang, with sampling available before a stock reservation is confirmed. Buyers can request a colour card and a current stock list through the company website.

About Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd.

Founded in 2012 and based in Zhuji, Zhejiang, Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd. produces burnout velvet, corduroy, cotton poplin, canvas and yarn-dyed fabric for export markets. The company offers a 300-metre minimum, a 10-day production lead time and a 24-colour stock programme. Website: mujiatextile.com

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Website: https://mujiatextile.com/

MiniSplitsforLess connects room loads and zone layouts with the refrigerant, electrical and delivery details needed for installation.

MIAMI — November 11, 2026 — MiniSplitsforLess has published installation planning guidance for ductless mini splits that places the installer’s specification needs alongside room capacity: the model, refrigerant, voltage and route between indoor and outdoor units all belong in the plan before delivery. The Miami-based online retailer connects those checks with its load calculator, pre-matched system combinations and ZIP-code delivery dates.

“A mini split is only as good as the sizing decision behind it,” said Suzanne Wilson of MiniSplitsforLess. “We publish the math so it can be checked before a system is chosen, and a person picks up the phone when a layout is too complex.”

The Specification Shared With the Installer

The MiniSplitsforLess installation sequence calls for a licensed, EPA-certified contractor to receive the equipment listing and specification table. An early electrical-panel check establishes whether a dedicated circuit can be accommodated. The line set, the insulated copper pair that carries refrigerant between indoor and outdoor units, is measured along its planned route through the building and outside.

In its guidance for Section 608-certified technicians, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency states: “Adding or removing refrigerant from a mini-split as part of installation, and/or connecting or disconnecting hoses or pre-charged lines requires a section 608 technician certification.” The EPA applies the requirement “regardless of refrigerant type.” The agency’s technician guidance is available at https://www.epa.gov/section608/epas-refrigerant-management-program-questions-and-answers-section-608-certified.

MiniSplitsforLess links licensed HVAC installation to the validity of the manufacturer’s warranty. Equipment supply and shipping are the retailer’s role; installation is performed separately. For refrigerant planning, MiniSplitsforLess identifies R-454B and R-32 as mildly flammable refrigerants that the EPA classifies as A2L, with R-32 listed as HFC-32. That classification entails specific servicing tools and procedures, making the refrigerant part of the information shared when the contractor is booked.

Room Loads Become a System Layout

MiniSplitsforLess bases its room calculation on 26 BTU per square foot, with climate adjustments of up to 10% and another 6% for each foot of ceiling height above 8 feet. BTU expresses capacity in British thermal units per hour; 12,000 BTU corresponds to one ton of cooling. The MiniSplitsforLess calculator adds 600 BTU for each occupant beyond two and 4,000 BTU for a kitchen, then rounds the result upward to the nearest 100 BTU before matching the nearest standard system size.

MiniSplitsforLess pairs the 11,500 BTU load of a 400 sq ft Tampa bedroom with a 12,000 BTU system; the same bedroom in Minneapolis has a 9,400 BTU load and a 9,000 BTU system. Ceiling height can also change the selected capacity: the MiniSplitsforLess calculation for a 500 sq ft room reaches 13,000 BTU before adjustments and generally matches a 12,000 BTU system, while a 12-foot ceiling brings the load to about 16,200 BTU and the selection to 18,000 BTU.

The September 30, 2026, MiniSplitsforLess catalogue figures identify 4,973 pre-matched multi-zone configurations with two to six indoor units among 5,118 system listings. A single-zone arrangement connects one indoor unit to one outdoor unit for a room or open area. Multi-zone arrangements connect several indoor units to one outdoor unit and allow separate temperature settings. MiniSplitsforLess lists each indoor unit’s capacity so rooms can be sized individually before a combination is selected.

For winter use, MiniSplitsforLess describes its mini splits as heat pumps, transferring heat to provide heating as well as cooling. Manufacturer specifications in the catalogue rate more than 2,200 configurations for heating down to -22°F and about 2,400 more down to -13°F. In the coldest states, the guidance treats the heating load as a separate capacity check with support or the installer.

From the Layout to the Delivery Date

“The published rule and the product pages settle most single-room decisions,” said Wilson. “A conversation saves the most time on multi-zone layouts, long or complicated line-set routes, older electrical panels and light commercial projects.”

MiniSplitsforLess provides phone, email and live-chat support through a Florida-based team, in English and Spanish, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern, Monday through Friday. Room dimensions, ceiling heights, the ZIP code, the intended grouping of rooms and an electrical-panel photo are the preparation details identified in its guidance.

On MiniSplitsforLess product pages, a specification table of about 40 rows accompanies the included accessories, control options and available line sets. Listed warranty terms distinguish seven years for Cooper & Hunter and BRAVO mini splits from five years for OLMO mini splits; each manufacturer determines the coverage details. Those listing fields give the contractor the model-specific information used in the installation sequence.

MiniSplitsforLess separates one to two business days of processing from transit, which takes one to four business days to most addresses. Its delivery zones draw on warehouses in Medley, Florida, near Dallas, Texas, and in California; 14 states fall within one to two business days of transit. The product-page delivery date is calculated for the ZIP code, allowing delivery to be scheduled against the installation date.

For ongoing system support, MiniSplitsforLess includes replacement parts in its specification guidance and stocks about 300 parts for the systems it carries. The catalogue and delivery information are published at minisplitsforless.com.

About MiniSplitsforLess

Since 2019, Miami-based MiniSplitsforLess has shipped ductless mini split systems nationwide as an online retailer. Its range exceeds 5,600 products across Cooper & Hunter, BRAVO, OLMO and Armbridge, with single- and multi-zone capacities of 6,000 to 60,000 BTU and about 300 replacement parts. Florida, Texas and California house its shipping warehouses. The headquarters address is 9400 NW 104th St #150, Medley, FL 33178; the phone number is (855) 775-4822. Further company information is at https://minisplitsforless.com.

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Agent Parker, a performance creative studio based in Gurgaon, India, has signed nearshore staffing company Committed Staff as a client. Agent Parker will produce static, video & AI-generated ads for Committed Staff’s Meta campaigns as they scale.

GURGAON, IN — November 11, 2026 — Agent Parker, a performance creative studio, announced today that Committed Staff, a nearshore staffing company that connects U.S. businesses with pre-vetted professionals across Latin America, has signed on as a client.

Agent Parker will produce the ad creative behind the company’s paid social campaigns: static ads, video ads and AI-generated ads.

The engagement began this week, with both teams planning to increase creative volume as campaigns scale.

Most brands advertising on Meta eventually hit the same wall. The budget is there and the targeting is in place, but there aren’t enough fresh ads to test. Winning ads fatigue, results flatten, and the in-house team can’t produce replacements fast enough. This partnership is meant to give Committed Staff a steady supply of new creative to test, and to scale what works.

Agent Parker was founded by two people who approach that problem from opposite sides.

Anshul Mittal, founder, has spent 10 years in e-commerce and design, including managerial roles where he built and scaled creative teams. He is responsible for the quality and consistency of the output.

Gaurav Mittal, co-founder and chief marketing officer, has spent six years buying media on Meta, Google and LinkedIn. He has run ad accounts for more than 50 B2B and B2C clients and managed over $10 million in ad budgets. That experience shapes every brief: he knows which kinds of ads earn a strong hook rate and click-through rate, because he has been the one accountable for the numbers.

“Gaurav has spent years watching good budgets get wasted on weak creative,” said Anshul Mittal, founder of Agent Parker. “So we don’t judge an ad by how it looks. We judge it by whether it stops the scroll and gets the click. Committed Staff is ready to test seriously, and that’s the kind of work we enjoy most.”

Behind the founders is a remote team of 12 video editors, designers and media buyers based in India, with an average of five years of industry experience.

About Agent Parker
Agent Parker is a performance creative studio headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, India. It produces static, video and AI-generated ad creative for brands advertising on Meta, and works with clients across the United States, Canada, Mexico and Colombia.

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Website: https://agentparker.co/