PHOTOGRAPHED FROM OUR STOCK
The cloth behind these terms
Unretouched photographs from our own floor. Colour varies between dye lots; the swatch card is the only reliable reference.
BUYING SILK · 100% MULBERRY SILK · FROM A CHINESE MILL
The difference between a fabric you can order and a fabric you can have.
Ready stock means the cloth is dyed, finished, inspected and on the shelf — not that it can be made quickly. The distinction matters because a dye lot is a queue: the dip, the approval, the vat, the finishing, and only then the dispatch.
We hold 300–500 metres per colour on the stock families, cut from one metre, and dispatch in a few working days. Where an order exceeds the shelf depth, the balance is topped up with a fresh dye lot matched to a retained sample, and we tell you which part is which.
Stock removes the lab dip, the dyeing and the finishing from the critical path. What is left is cutting and packing.
Buying off the same shelf in March and in September is how a programme keeps its colour consistent.
One metre from stock is the fastest way to get a real answer about a fabric, and it is the same cloth you would be buying in volume.
| Ready stock | Dyed or woven to order | |
|---|---|---|
| Depth | 300–500 m per colour | Your quantity |
| Minimum | 1 metre | 40 m dyeing / by quotation for weaving |
| Dispatch | A few working days | After lab dip or strike-off approval |
| Colour choice | The stock card, 15+ colours | Any Pantone, dip approved first |
| Continuity | Same shelf for repeat orders | Retained bulk sample as reference |
Ask what happens when your order is bigger than the shelf. If a colour holds 300–500 metres and you need 700, the balance has to be dyed, and the honest arrangement is that part of your order ships immediately and part of it waits for a lot. Get that split in writing before you commit to a delivery date downstream.
For a repeat programme, stock is a scheduling tool rather than a discount. The value is that the second order does not depend on a dye house being free, which is worth more in a tight season than a small price difference.
These search phrases all land here because they mean the same thing:
If you were looking for a different commercial question, the wholesale page covers programmes and the ready-stock page covers what is on the shelf right now.
The cloth is dyed, finished, inspected and held on the shelf, so it can be cut and dispatched without a dye lot. It is the difference between ordering fabric and waiting for fabric.
Between 300 and 500 metres per colour on the stock families. If your order needs more than the shelf holds, we dye the balance against a retained sample and tell you which part came from stock and which was dyed.
Yes. One metre is the standard sampling quantity and stock is exactly what makes that possible.
A few working days from confirmation. Transit depends on the service — samples go by post, orders by air or sea to your port.
It is dyed to order from 40 metres per colour, with a lab dip approved first. If it is a colour you will need repeatedly, tell us and we will hold it against your programme instead.
PHOTOGRAPHED FROM OUR STOCK
Unretouched photographs from our own floor. Colour varies between dye lots; the swatch card is the only reliable reference.
Tell us the quantity and the colour and we will quote it with a confirmed dispatch date.
