Private Label Cashmere from Nepal

We regularly partner with small and growing brands on private-label cashmere — starting with a small trial collection and scaling as the business grows. You bring the design brief; we manage it from first sketch to finished piece, producing with trusted partner workshops in Kathmandu and checking quality along the way.

What you can specify

• Your own colourway — matched to a Pantone reference, your own swatch, or chosen from our shade card.
• Your own pattern — dobby checks, stripes and diamonds; Jacquard for intricate designs; ikat; screen and digital print.
• Your own sizes — weaving widths from 20 cm to 250 cm; knitwear graded XS–XXL.
• Your own label — woven or printed labels, care labels and hang tags.
• Your own packaging — tell us what you need and we will develop it with you.

Minimum order for a first collection

A brand launching three styles in two colours is looking at 300 pieces: a realistic first production run, not a warehouse full of stock. That is deliberate: most of the brands we work with are testing a market rather than filling one.

How development works

1. Brief. Send sketches, a reference product, a mood board, or simply a description. If you are unsure what is possible, ask — the answer is usually a conversation, not a form.
2. Quotation. We come back with pricing, minimum order and lead time for sign-off. A design charge may apply depending on the complexity of the design.
3. Sample. Either a reference sample of a comparable existing style, or a new development sample made to your brief: 2× unit cost, paid in advance, about 30–45 days, and deducted from the production invoice under the agreed terms once a PO is confirmed. See Sampling.
4. Production. 50% advance to begin, balance before dispatch. Bulk lead time is approximately 45–60 working days.
5. Export. We handle Nepal export customs and can source freight quotes to suit your timing.

What “made in Nepal” puts on your label

Nepal is not simply where the parcel ships from. Cashmere here is worked by hand through more than forty separate processes, on hand-flat knitting machines and handlooms operated by artisans whose skills were learned from the generation before them. At the partner workshops we work with, the knitting and mending teams are made up largely of skilled women.

We will not tell you that every fibre originates in Nepal — it does not, and any supplier who claims otherwise is worth a second look. What is made here is the yarn’s transformation into cloth: the dyeing, weaving, knitting, printing, finishing and mending. The yarn itself comes from established spinners. That is the part a customer can feel.

Working with a smaller supplier

We are not a factory and we do not present ourselves as one. We are cashmere specialists who know which partner workshop suits which product, and who manage your order with them from sample to dispatch. What that means in practice: you talk directly to one person who understands cashmere, decisions happen quickly, and a project of 100 pieces gets the same attention as one of 1,000. Not every brand needs to deal with a factory floor — some need a specialist who will answer the question.

Launching a cashmere line without over-ordering

The expensive mistake in cashmere is almost never paying too much per piece. It is committing to stock that does not sell. A first collection structured to test rather than to fill a warehouse looks something like this:

• Three styles, not twelve. One hero piece, one everyday piece, one gift-priced piece. You will learn more from three styles selling at different rates than from twelve selling evenly at nothing.
• Two colourways per style. One safe neutral, one that expresses the brand. A second colour adds a 50-piece line, but the information it gives you about what your customers actually buy is worth more than the stock risk.
• Sample only what you are serious about. A comparable reference piece answers the quality question for the rest of the range at a fraction of the cost and time.
• Plan the reorder before the first order lands. Lead time is 45–60 working days. If a style sells through in three weeks and you start the conversation then, you have missed the season.

What a good design brief contains

You do not need a technical pack. You do need enough for us to quote accurately rather than broadly. The most useful briefs tell us:

If you are unsure how to describe any of this, the quality and specifications page covers the vocabulary, and the buyer guide walks through the whole sequence.

What we will tell you honestly

Some briefs are not producible at the quantity or price the brand has in mind, and some designs will not behave the way the sketch suggests once they are in cashmere. We would rather have that conversation at quotation stage than after you have paid for a sample. If a design needs a different construction to work, we will say so and explain why.

Further reading

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Related

• Sampling — what a sample costs and how long it takes
• Quality & specifications — how to write a cashmere spec
• Our process — weaving, knitting, dyeing and printing
• Wholesale — ready-made styles without custom development

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