Woven Fabrics

Fabric woven at our own mill

Creston Apparel weaves fabric in-house on computerized Japanese jet looms. Because the mill and the garment units belong to the same company, a buyer ordering garments can specify the fabric construction instead of choosing from a converter’s stock range, and fabric orders are planned against the same production calendar.

Canvas is one of our core qualities, used for bags, tents, covers and workwear. The same weaving unit supplies fabric to our own garment production.

What to specify when you enquire

A woven fabric is defined by a handful of measurable properties. Sending these, or a swatch we can analyse, gets you an accurate quotation:

Property	What it means	Example
Composition	Fibre content by percentage	100% cotton, 65/35 poly-cotton
Yarn count	Fineness of warp and weft yarns	40s × 40s
Construction	Ends and picks per inch	133 × 72
Weave	How warp and weft interlace	Plain, 2/1 twill, 3/1 twill, oxford
Weight	Grams per square metre (GSM) or oz/yd²	120 GSM
Width	Usable width, selvedge to selvedge	58/59”
Finish	Dyeing, printing and chemical or mechanical finishing	Piece-dyed, peached, water-repellent

If you don’t have every value, send the end use and a reference fabric. We propose a construction and confirm it with a swatch before bulk.

Fabric for garments or by the metre

Fabric can be woven for garments we manufacture for you, or supplied as fabric. Minimum quantities differ between the two and depend on whether the quality is dyed, printed or developed specially; we confirm them with the quotation.