India Home Textiles: project record
Severe color bleeding on dark prints after first wash; customer complaints hit 11% of orders within 3 weeks; festive window was closing.
- Buyer and project
- A Mumbai, India importer supplying home textiles to 300+ retail and online sellers; festive-season sales are ~40% of annual revenue.
- Products and scope
- Printed bed linen and cushion covers; cotton, 8 designs, 45,000 units for the festive season.
What LifaSourcing.com did
Identified the cause: low-grade reactive dyes and insufficient washing-off at the mill.
Verified dye-house certifications and wash-fastness test records (ISO 105-C06).
Re-sourced 2 mills with controlled dye houses.
Implemented pre-shipment wash-fastness testing on every lot.
Replacement production completed in 4 weeks; festive season met with 90% of planned volume; bleeding complaints eliminated; two mills now under annual quality agreements.
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