Home textile quality recovery for India
LIFA traced textile color bleeding to dye and washing processes, coordinated replacement mills and recovered 90% of the planned festive-season volume.
- The buyer
- A Mumbai, India importer supplying home textiles to 300+ retail and online sellers; festive-season sales are ~40% of annual revenue.
- The product scope
- Printed bed linen and cushion covers; cotton, 8 designs, 45,000 units for the festive season.
What needed to change?
Severe color bleeding on dark prints after first wash; customer complaints hit 11% of orders within 3 weeks; festive window was closing.
How LIFA managed the work
We identified the cause: low-grade reactive dyes and insufficient washing-off at the mill.
We verified dye-house certifications and wash-fastness test records (ISO 105-C06).
We re-sourced 2 mills with controlled dye houses.
We 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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What this project shows
Wash testing must represent how customers use the fabric. Lot-level checks and controlled dye houses addressed the specific cause of this complaint.
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