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Because we buy yarn rather than spin it, the first test happens at the gate. Yarn arrives against a purchase order, is tested for count and quality, and only then is taken into stores. Everything after that is a sequence of checks with a name against each one.
Inbound
Count and quality tested on arrival. Goods receipt is raised only after the test passes.
Greige
Booked in by batch and inspected before it is issued to process.
In process
Every lot is held against the dip you approved. A lot that drifts is reprocessed, not shipped.
Made-ups
Checked after hemming and before packing, against AQL 2.5.
Outbound
Final inspection, polybag and carton packing, container loading against the invoice.
A drop of water is placed on the finished cloth and timed until it disappears into the pile. Under five seconds means the towel absorbs the way cotton should. Softeners can make a towel feel excellent in the hand and still shed water; this is the test that tells the two apart.
A white test cloth is rubbed against the towel, dry and then wet, and rated for how much colour comes off. It is what tells a buyer whether a dark towel will mark a pale bathroom.
A disc of fixed area is cut from the cloth and weighed. Grams per square metre is the number a towel is specified by, so it is checked against the order rather than assumed from the construction.
Towels are laundered repeatedly and checked for shrinkage, colour loss and change in the pile. It shows how a towel behaves in a customer’s machine, not how it looks on the day it ships.
A skein is broken on a strength tester and the result read against the yarn’s count. Count strength product — CSP — is the single figure a spinner is held to. Weak yarn breaks on the loom and turns up as defects in the cloth; this is where it is caught instead.
These go out rather than staying in-house on purpose. On the results that decide whether a programme ships, your technical team should not have to take our word for it.
Whether the colour holds against salt water and chlorine. Beach towels and hotel pool towels live in both.
The force the cloth takes before it tears. It matters most for hospitality towels that go through industrial laundries year after year.
What the towel is made of, measured rather than declared. For organic, Egyptian or blended programmes, it is the evidence behind the label.
How much fibre a towel sheds in its first washes — what a customer finds in the dryer filter.
How much weight a towel loses through laundering, which is pile being lost. A towel that thins with every wash is the complaint this test prevents.