Imily Clothing is a women’s fashion clothing supplier based in Guangzhou, China. We work with importers, wholesalers and independent brands that need custom knitwear — sweaters, cardigans, pullovers, knit dresses and accessories — developed and delivered without opening a buying office in China.
Our team handles the parts that decide whether a knitwear order works: yarn selection, gauge and size grading, pattern making, sample development, trims, labels and packaging. The knitting runs with the mills we have worked with for years, and we stay on the order from the first tech pack to the final carton, so you get one contact who owns the whole process instead of a list of factories to manage yourself.
We have supplied knitwear to buyers in Australia and Europe since 2012, and we work across the full machine range, from chunky 3GG to fine 18GG, in cashmere, merino, lambswool and viscose or nylon blends.
Nothing here is a stock item. Every order starts from your design — a sketch, a reference photo, a tech pack or a sample you already own — and the knitwear is built around it.
What you can change on a knitwear order:
Most buyers arrive with a look in mind rather than a yarn code. These are the knitwear directions our clients order most often, all made to order from your own design:
Change the yarn, the gauge, the colour or the finish and it becomes a different garment — none of it is a stock item. Send us what you have in mind, even if it is only a sketch or a reference photo, and we will come back with a price per piece and a lead time.
Our minimum is 100 pieces per style, and you can split those across sizes and up to three colours. Sampling takes 7–10 days once the yarn is confirmed, and bulk production is 20–45 days after you approve the sample. You will have a price per piece and a lead time within 24 hours of sending us your design — with no obligation.
Knitwear is unforgiving. One wrong gauge, one loose linking stitch or one shade difference between two yarn lots and the whole run is unsellable. We check the order at the points where those mistakes are still cheap to fix.
Every piece passes two full inspection rounds — once after linking and hand stitching, and again before packing — plus a light-box check on the fine, dark-coloured knits, where a small hole is invisible to the eye.
Yarn is weighed and checked on arrival — count, evenness and shrinkage — and a test swatch is knitted to confirm the gauge and the finished hand feel before any bulk panel is produced. We buy slightly more yarn than the order needs, because running short inside the same dye lot is the hardest problem to solve late in a run.
We do not hand your design to a workshop and wait. Our own team runs the development — pattern, grading and sampling — and then follows the order through every stage at the knitting mill: confirming panels, tracking linking and washing, and signing off the final inspection against your approved sample. Every step is written out in our sweater manufacturing process guide if you want to see the whole sequence.
Big order or small, we run to your delivery plan. A repeat order on a confirmed style can be delivered in as little as 10 days, which matters when a bestseller sells out mid-season.
You do not need to know a yarn count or a gauge to work with us. Tell us what the garment has to do — the weight, the warmth, the price point — and we translate it into yarn and machine settings, so you keep your time for the market and the design.
Development, yarn and trim sourcing, pattern making, sampling, production, labels and shipping are all handled through one contact. You are not assembling a garment from five different suppliers — see our services for the full scope.
You deal with one person who has worked in knitwear for over ten years, in plain language, from the first question to the final shipment.
We are based in Guangzhou, but the knitting runs in the clusters that have specialised in it for decades — Puyuan and Datang in Zhejiang, Hengshan in Jiangsu, Dalang in Guangdong. Working inside those clusters keeps yarn, machinery and skilled hands close together, and it is why a 100-piece run is realistic rather than an exception. Our guide to the knitwear clusters in China breaks them down town by town.
100 pieces per style, split across sizes and up to three colours. We built our setup around small runs, so we can start there without asking you to commit to 300 or 500 pieces. See how the low MOQ structure works.
Yes. Woven labels, size and care labels, hang tags and printed packaging can all carry your brand, and nothing on the garment mentions us. Labels and swing tags are made from 1,000 pieces; the garment minimum stays at 100. More on private label knitwear.
Sampling is 7–10 days, bulk production is 20–45 days after sample approval, plus shipping. We can deliver door to door with DDP to the United States, all of Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East, with the duties paid before the goods reach you.
Homespun describes a yarn that is spun with a deliberately uneven, slightly nubby character, so the finished sweater has the soft irregularity of a hand-knitted piece rather than the flat evenness of a machine-spun yarn. Buyers looking for a good quality homespun knitwear manufacturer are usually after exactly that: the hand-made look, produced consistently and at a commercial price. We source homespun yarns from spinners in the Tongxiang and Jiangsu clusters and have them knitted to your gauge, so the texture stays where you want it and the sizing stays consistent from piece to piece.
The range is wider than most buyers expect from a single partner. Asymmetrical sweaters — one shoulder off, an uneven hem, an off-centre placket — sit alongside lapel and shawl-collar styles, cardigans, half-zips, cable and rib knits, and the straightforward crew and V-necks that carry a logo. Because we work across both fine and chunky gauges, the same style can be developed as a light layer or a heavy winter piece.
GG stands for gauge, and it tells you how many needles per inch the knitting machine uses. The bigger the number, the finer the knit. 3GG and 5GG give you chunky, heavy sweaters; 7GG and 9GG are the middle ground most people picture when they say "wool sweater"; 12GG is the workhorse fine gauge used for most contemporary knitwear; 14GG and 18GG produce the light, smooth knits you see in finer jumpers and dresses. Gauge and yarn weight have to be chosen together — the same yarn at a different gauge behaves like a different fabric — and that is the decision we settle first, before any sample is knitted.
Knitwear does not have to mean a container. Orders run from 100 pieces per style, which is enough to test a colourway or a new shape without committing to a full season. Yarn minimums and dye lots are the reason many suppliers insist on more, so we plan the order around yarns that are already in the market rather than holding you to a custom spin. If the style sells, the same spec repeats at a lower unit cost on the second run.
Our knitwear is knitted and finished by partner mills in the Chinese knitwear clusters described in our guide to the knitwear cluster zones — the areas where the yarns, the machines and the hand-finishing skills sit within a short drive of each other. Working through those mills is what makes a small run practical. The full sequence, from yarn inspection to packing, is set out in our sweater manufacturing process, and the fibre choices are covered in cashmere and wool and yarn classification.
Send your design, a reference photo or a tech pack to sales@imilyclothing.com, or use the contact form. You will have a price per piece and a lead time within 24 hours, with no obligation. Payment is by bank transfer — a 50% deposit to start production, with the balance settled against the shipping documents before dispatch.
Before you start, it is worth reading the questions buyers ask us most, and if this is your first collection, how we work with new brands. When you are ready, talk to us about your knitwear.