How to Find A Good Silk Scarf Supplier or Manufacturer
Silk scarf, a relatively inexpensive luxury accessory, loved by both men, women and even children of all ages to keep warm, to keep cool and for cultural, religious, spiritual reasons or purely for fashion. As the best art carrier, silk scarf can perfectly present the designer’s imagination and creativity, like an oil painting, a silk scarf is a piece of art. That is why all luxury brands release new silk scarves collection every year.
As a low investment and high profit product, you may have brainstormed some ideas of starting silk scarf business, however, whether you plan on making silk scarf with your own design or finding silk scarf suppliers to purchase from wholesale, it is always hard to find good suppliers that can meet your requirement.
If you have your own designs already, by dealing with factory directly. You can get your silk scarves manufactured at relatively lower price and shorter lead time. Conversely, most factories have no ability to design based on an abstract idea.
In the silk scarf industry, there are generally two types of direct factories: printing factories or scarf hemming factories. In fact, from raw fabric to printed fabric to hemmed scarves to packed scarves, few factories can complete the entire process of silk scarves manufacturing alone. So sometimes you may find factories can’t supply the best quality scarves with the best price, they are only good at doing their part of work.
It’s often harder to communicate and close deals with factories when there is quality problem or delivery delay.
What about HOWELL SILK?
HOWELL SILK has its own design team, can provide customized designs based on your requirement quality checking team to control the quality on every process, sales team to provide professional suggestion, update the order process, and track the after-sales. HOWELL SILK also has its own printing factory, hemming factory, to control the quality and lower the price, which makes us dare to promise 100% refund or remaking if defective quality and delivery on time. In conclusion, HOWELL is an integration of factory, wholesaler, trading company and design studio.
What aspects need to be paid attention to ?
1 . What are the lead times ?
The lead times include sample time, production time and shipping time, You don’t want to work with a scarf manufacturer who needs 2 months to finish your order, rather than to choose a manufacturer who can meet your schedule.
2, What is the cost per piece ?
Get quotes from at least 3 silk scarf manufacturers can make you betterly understand the reasonable price, If you are not good at bargaining, have the manufacturers offer different prices for different quantity. You will see which is the best price.
3. What are their minimum order quantities ?
Not every scarf manufacturer are willing to accept small quantity, price is never the final deciding factor, you should find a manufacturer who are willing to help you start a brand new business.
4. Can they grant you exclusivity ?
For silk scarves, artworks are the most important intellectual property, make sure the manufacturers have the effect means to not allowing others to use it. Have a NDA signed can arouse manufacturers' attention to your artworks copyrights.
5. What’s their quality standards and defect policy?
Find out what are their process and standards to control the quality, many scarves manufacturers even don’t include the defective rate in the cost, so you can find the prices are really lower.
If you receive the wrong or defective items, what will the manufactuers do ? Will they refund the payment, offer a discount, absorb the secondary shipping cost and duties or able to refinish your order before deadline ?
