Outsourcing cap & hat is a wise decision especially when it comes to large-quantity-orders, you will find various cap & hat manufacturers in developing countries such as China, Vietnam, Combodia, etc, but communicating with such factories is never easy. You will probably find a lot of articles/videos about cap & hat manufacturing process, but you hardly find an artile like this one telling you about tips/checklists about “how to get cap & hat manufactured”.
Typically when you reach out for cap & hat manufacturers, emails will go back and forth but no decisions will be made. The results of these low-efficiency communications are:
- You still have little knowledge about making cap & hat;
- The factory sales representatives still don’t know what you are looking for. To save time for both sides, this post is about “how to get cap &hat manufactured easily and efficiently?” This question contains 4 parts:
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- Preparations before reaching out to a cap & hat factory;
- Decide one factory and talk about business details;
- The factory producing cap & hat;
- Shipping and receive your cap & hat;
Preparations before reaching out to a sock factory
This contains 5 parts:
- Decide cap & hat Design
- Tag Design (package design)
- Size Reference
- Quantity for each design and size
- Decide what yarn/material you want for your cap & hat
1. Decide Sock Design
If you are a sart-up businss, you probably think cap & hat design is difficult, but it’s not when it comes to cap & hat manufacturing. Most factories accept whatever formats of design(jpg, png, psd, ai… etc), There are 3 ways you can make a cap & hat design.
- Real Design: create a pattern by yourself or a professional designer;
- Copy Design: search Pinterest and find patterns of cap & hat to your taste, then send the pattern to the factory;
- Pick a real cap & hat sample in your local market and send it to the factory;
2. Tag Design
On the tag is your brand information and cap & hat information(price, code, name, composition, etc). Every piece of cap & hat will be attached with one tag for decoration/brand awareness.
3. Size Reference.
The cap & hat factory needs to make sure the size of your cap & hat, so as to:
- Estimate the approximate weight of cap & hat, thus decide the yarn usage&cost;
- Program the cap & hat knitting machine;
Since cap & hat size reference varies from different countries, every cap & hat factory accept your designed size, you would probably want to go out find a proper sock size chart in your local market.
4. Quantity for each design/size
To help better estimate our cost thus your manufacturing fee, cap & hat factories need to know your ordering quantity. You know, for any manufacturing industry, the more you order, the lower the unit manufacturing price will be. Just tell the cap & hat factory how much pairs you want for each size/design.
5. Decide what yarn/material you want for your socks
You probably want to refer to our another post regarding:
Here is a general idea:
- Generally, classic cap & hat are made of
- 100% cotton twill, or
- 100% acrylic
- There are rarely 100% wool cap since that will make your cap stiff. However, for those who have diabetics or skin allergies, they can only accept 100% organic cap & hat made of either cotton or hemp.
- Typical sports cap (to provide more tight support) usually are made of 100% nylon or 100% spandex.
Don’t worry if you don’t know much about cap & hat materials, just tell the sock factory the functionalities of your cap & hat and ask for their advice. If you are not sure whether the cap & hat factory is tricking or not, you can also find more info on internet.
How to get cap & hat manufactured-[Preparations]-Conclusions
In this post we talked about the 5 steps of preparing to get your cap & hat manufactured:
- Decide cap & hat Design
- Tag Design (package design)
- Size Reference
- Quantity for each design and size
- Decide what yarn/material you want for your cap & hat
Okay, by now you have the essential information before reaching out to a cap & hat manufacturer, and it should be easy and quick that you will receive a specific quotation regarding your cap & hat.
Congratulations! Now you can start reaching out and wish you good luck! We hope we will have the chance to support you in cap & hat manufacturing.
