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Black men's cardigan in a textured wool / cotton blend knit, produced as OEM/ODM and private label for B2B apparel brands. MOQ 30 pcs, custom colours and branding.
ProductBlack men's sweater in a distressed wool / cotton blend knit, produced as OEM/ODM and private label for B2B apparel brands. MOQ 30 pcs, custom colours and branding.
ProductA kids hoodie in wool blend yarn, produced as OEM/ODM for B2B apparel brands. 5GG, Newborn–12y, MOQ 30 pcs.
ProductA throw blanket in wool blend yarn, produced as OEM/ODM for home programs. 12GG, Standard 120×150 cm (custom on request), MOQ 30 pcs.
ProductA large-dog sweater in wool blend yarn, produced as OEM/ODM for pet programs. 5GG, L, XL, 2XL (custom on request), MOQ 30 pcs.
ProductMen's Grey Snowflake Turtleneck Sweater Nordic Pattern in wool blend, produced as OEM/ODM and private label for B2B apparel brands. 5GG–7GG, XS-3XL, MOQ 30 pcs.
ProductMen's Multi Colour Striped Nordic Polo Sweater Fair Isle in wool / acrylic, produced as OEM/ODM and private label for B2B apparel brands. 5GG–7GG, XS-3XL, MOQ 30 pcs.
ProductMen's Green Nordic Reindeer Christmas Crewneck Sweater — Organic cotton / wool blend. Produced as OEM/ODM and private label for B2B apparel brands. MOQ 30 pcs, custom colours and branding.
ProductA women's belted longline cardigan in two-colour jacquard, with a shawl collar and fringed collar, front edges, cuffs, hem and belt ends. Produced as OEM / ODM for apparel brands.
Nordic outdoor and lifestyle brands occupy a distinctive corner of the knitwear market. The product has to perform in genuinely cold, damp weather, the buyer is design-literate and unwilling to compromise on hand-feel, and the commercial culture leans toward fewer suppliers and longer relationships. At Licheng we have shipped winter wool blend programs into Sweden, the wider Nordic region and adjacent markets, and the questions Nordic procurement teams ask us are not the same questions we get from North American or Southern European brands. This guide walks through the cold-weather specifications that actually matter when sourcing knitwear for Nordic distribution — gauge, yarn architecture, finishing, sample and bulk lead times, MOQ, quality control and the freight and Incoterms detail that decides whether your FW collection lands on time.
ResourceAlpine and après-ski knitwear for AW27: five buildable routes counted from 462 published styles - Nordic yokes, lodge cables, ski half-zips, belted fringe cardigans and knit accessory sets - with the engineering and cost behind each.
ResourceA pet knitwear sourcing read counted from our own published range: two separate size runs rather than one stretched chart, acrylic on 12 of 17 styles for wash durability, 10 of 17 at 7GG-12GG, and why the harness opening has to be on the tech pack before knitting.
ResourceAn accessory sourcing read counted from our own published range: 13 of 30 styles are 12GG or finer - the opposite balance to our garment book - 18 are one size, and the USD 2.83 category median is a range-level figure that should never be used as a per-style price.
ResourceIberian knitwear buyers face a compressed sourcing window: a long, warm autumn pushes AW knit launches later than in northern Europe, while a brief but intense winter peak in interior Spain and a mild Portuguese coast demand a layered product mix. At Licheng Knitwear, a Dongguan-based manufacturer founded in 2018, we work with wholesalers and private-label brands across Spain and Portugal who need a sourcing cadence built around those realities, not generic European calendars. This guide walks through how we time samples and bulk for the Iberian market, what MOQ and commercial terms suit the typical Spanish or Portuguese brand size, which yarns and gauges Iberian buyers favour, and the QC, logistics and Incoterms questions we hear most often. The goal is a practical reference you can use to plan an AW or SS knit program from Dongguan with confidence.
ResourceA holiday novelty knit capsule on US or EU shelves for a November 1 launch must leave a Chinese factory by mid-September. That single line is what most brand merchandisers underestimate when they start a fair-isle, gift sweater, or Christmas novelty program in late summer. Holiday knitwear is a calendar problem before it is a design problem: the gauge is usually denser, the colorways are higher, and the patterning takes more development time than a basic crew neck, so sample approval has to land by early July and the bulk PO has to be issued by mid-July to keep August knitting on track. This article walks through the reverse calendar Licheng uses with brands planning a 2027 holiday drop, the failure modes we see most often when POs slip into late August or September, and the honest cost reality of recovering a missed shipment by air. No hype, just the math.
ResourceLusekofte, Setesdal, selburose, the banded-yoke ski sweater, lopapeysa and Fair Isle are six design traditions and one production technique. What each name means, and the four decisions - colour count, gauge, closure and yarn - that actually move cost and lead time.
ResourceTransparent 2026 benchmarks for custom knitwear production — MOQ by product type, sampling and bulk lead times, FOB price ranges, machine gauges, on-time delivery and export mix — based on a direct China flat-knit factory's production data.
ResourceSynthetic yarns get a bad rap in editorial coverage and a quiet pass in the buying office, because the math on a 100,000-piece holiday sweater program rarely pencils in pure wool. This briefing is the version of the conversation you wish your mill would have with you: where acrylic genuinely earns its place (mass-market price points, vivid color, no-fuss care), where it quietly torpedoes a premium brand (hand, breathability, returns from in-store touch tests), and how nylon micro-percentages do real structural work in athletic ribs and high-abrasion zones. We cover the three blend ratios you will see quoted most often, the field-tip hand-feel checks your QC team can do without a lab, and the FOB yarn-price reality that drives most of these decisions in the first place.
ResourceA children's knit programme is not a scaled-down adult one. Read from 18 published children's styles: the even split into six cardigans, six hoodies and six pullovers, why gauge runs at 7GG and coarser rather than the 12GG of adult spring/summer, where cotton, organic and recycled fibres actually sit, published index medians per fibre, and where the grading work really is across a Newborn-12y range.
Sourcing knitwear into the Nordics is not one route but two. Norway is an EEA member but sits outside the EU customs union and outside the EU VAT area, while Sweden, Denmark and Finland are EU member states. For a buyer that difference is operational, not academic: goods entering Norway must be declared separately to Tolletaten with HS code, customs value, origin and importer details, and import VAT of 25% applies even where duty does not. Goods moving from an EEA country into Norway are free of import duty; goods shipped directly from China are dutiable at the applicable clothing rate. A Stockholm buyer and an Oslo buyer receiving the same carton therefore face different paperwork, different landed cost and different timing. For the three EU members, the framework is the one that governs any EU knitwear import: TARIC classification under HS heading 6110 by fibre (6110.11 wool, 6110.12/6110.19 fine animal hair, 6110.20 cotton, 6110.30 man-made), fibre-content labelling under Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011, and care symbols to ISO 3758. The three EU members are not interchangeable on landed cost. Import VAT is 25% in Denmark and Sweden but 25.5% in Finland, raised on 1 September 2024 and now the second-highest standard rate in the EU. Declarations go to Toldstyrelsen in Denmark and Tulli in Finland; both sit inside the EU customs union, so unlike the Norwegian route no separate customs clearance arises once goods are in free circulation. On a 30-piece first order the difference is small in absolute terms, but it carries through every repeat. The region also has its own environmental gatekeeper. The Nordic Swan Ecolabel - Svanen in Sweden, Svanemerket in Norway, Svanemærket in Denmark, Joutsenmerkki in Finland - covers clothing including sweaters, and its material thresholds are stricter than most buyers expect: cotton must be 100% organic or recycled, synthetic fibre must be recycled or bio-based, and carcinogenic, mutagenic and reprotoxic substances, halogenated flame retardants and antibacterial nanoparticle additives are prohibited outright. Brands planning a Swan application should fix yarn sourcing at development stage, not at bulk, because the certificate trail has to follow the fibre. Looking forward, the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation is expected to adopt textile requirements in 2026 for application from around 2027, and the textile Digital Product Passport follows from the same framework. Programmes specified against Swan-level material rules today are the ones least disrupted by that transition. The pattern tradition the region is known for - the two-colour yoke and body patterning of a Norwegian lusekofte or a Setesdal jacket, the snowflake and eight-petal rose motifs, the Icelandic lopapeysa yoke - is Fair Isle and two-colour jacquard work, and it is the same technique we already run on 15 published Fair Isle styles, five of which carry a full zip front. Merino is on 32 published styles. Colour count per course is the binding constraint rather than pattern complexity: two to four colours per row keeps the reverse clean, and a lining or birdseye backing is the answer once floats get long. Send the pattern you have in mind, in any form - a photograph of a garment is enough to start - and we will come back with what is knittable, what needs redrawing, and which route gives the handfeel you want. On the product side the same is true of the two lines Nordic buyers ask for most: 72 published cardigans and 37 published knit jackets sit on the shelf as references you can cost against, and 85 styles carry a zip front.
MarketMen's knitwear for a Nordic winter is a construction problem before it is a design one. The gauges that carry the region's product - 3GG to 7GG - behave differently from the 12GG and finer knits that dominate temperate ranges: they take more yarn per piece, shrink and relax differently after washing, and are far less forgiving of a tech pack that specifies only body measurements. Weight per garment on a 3GG wool-blend crew commonly lands two to three times that of a 12GG cotton style, which changes yarn budget, carton cube and freight per unit at the same time. Yarn direction. Wool and wool-blend yarns carry the hand Nordic buyers expect; wool-acrylic blends hold the same visual weight at a lower price point and improve dimensional stability on heavy ribs. Brushed and mohair-blend surfaces read as premium in the region's outdoor-casual segment but need agreed pilling expectations up front - ISO 12945-2 (Martindale) is the test method we work to, and a brushed surface will not reach the same result as a smooth one. Pattern work. Nordic jacquard is the region's signature and its most common source of sampling delay. Colour count drives both machine time and cost: each additional colour in a jacquard row adds yarn carriers and slows production. Intarsia handles large blocks of colour without floats behind the work; jacquard suits repeating motifs. Deciding which construction the artwork needs before sampling is the single largest lever on lead time for a patterned programme. Seasonal timing. A Nordic autumn/winter drop that must land in store by August needs bulk confirmed by roughly May, which means sampling in March and tech packs in February. Working back from delivery month rather than forward from enquiry is what keeps a heavy-gauge programme on time. For Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland specifically, the pattern work behind a lusekofte, a Setesdal jacket or a lopapeysa yoke is Fair Isle and two-colour jacquard - 15 published Fair Isle styles, five with a zip front, and merino on 32. Two traditions outside the Fair Isle family sit differently on the machine. The Danish nattrøje is damask work - knit-and-purl texture, star motifs, technically reversible - which uses one colour and carries no floats, so it costs the same as a plain body at any gauge and is the cheapest way to get visible pattern into a Nordic programme. The Finnish Korsnäs sweater (Korsnäströja) from Ostrobothnia, dating to the 1870s, is the opposite case: it combines knitting with crochet, and the crocheted bands are hand work we do not do. We can reproduce its knitted sections and its off-white, red, green and yellow palette as jacquard, but a true Korsnäs is not a machine garment and we will say so rather than sample toward it. Gauge decides how much detail survives: a motif that reads cleanly at 12GG can lose its edges at 5GG, so fine pattern detail is proved on a swatch before it goes into a tech pack. MOQ is 30 pieces per colour and sampling runs 15-25 days from confirmed artwork and yarn. Cardigans and knit jackets are the two lines Nordic enquiries name most often, and both are already published rather than in development: 72 cardigans and 37 knit jackets, with 85 styles across the range carrying a zip front.
Our catalogue MOQ is typically 30 pieces per colour, which makes a focused first capsule realistic for an independent Nordic brand. Fair Isle and intarsia patterns stay at 30 pieces per colour, and a colour dyed for the order is possible from 30 with a small-lot dyeing surcharge that falls away at the mill's 100–300-piece dye lot. Only fully custom yarn (a specific micron, exclusive blend or marl spun for you) raises the minimum, usually to 100–300 pieces per colour. Plan the colour count tightly on the first PO to keep total commitment manageable.
FAQStrictly, Fair Isle is the Shetland tradition of no more than two colours in any row. Nordic covers Norwegian and Icelandic traditions such as the lusekofte, Setesdal, selburose and lopapeysa. On the machine they are all the same technique: two-colour jacquard.
FAQYes. A yoke-only design concentrates the pattern around the shoulders on a plain body, so it is lighter, cleaner and more affordable to produce. All-over pattern uses the most yarn, the longest sampling and carries the highest price.
FAQOur published motif styles run from 3GG to 12GG, most often 7GG–12GG. Lower gauges give a chunkier, more graphic look; higher gauges hold finer detail. Fine points and small text need 12GG; at 5GG a motif has to be drawn bolder. Prove it on a swatch at the actual gauge before the tech pack is final.
FAQIt depends on the use case. For a traditional fisherman or Aran-inspired hero piece we usually recommend 3GG–5GG in a wool or wool/alpaca blend — that is where the thermal performance and visual weight live. For a layering crew that goes under a shell jacket, 7GG merino blend at 18.5 micron is a more sensible default. We run 3GG to 18GG in-house, so we can match the brief rather than the other way around.
FAQYes, where the buyer nominates a yarn that carries that certificate and accepts the corresponding chain-of-custody and transaction certificate flow. We are a manufacturer, not a yarn mill, so the certificate lives with the yarn — we support the production-side documentation and traceability. We do not publish certification logos that are not actively held on a programme; documents are available on request rather than displayed publicly.
FAQMerino for soft, next-to-skin contemporary ranges; unspun lopi for a true Icelandic handle; wool-cashmere blends for a premium price point; and wool-acrylic for stability and price in volume programmes, with pilling expectations agreed to ISO 12945-2.
FAQYes. We knit on our own flat-bed machines across 3GG-18GG, so Traditional Nordic patterns; front zipper; lined hood for warmth can be re-scaled, re-coloured or replaced with your artwork, and the neckline, fit, trims and length adjusted to your tech pack. We also add embroidery, appliqué and custom branding. This style is developed for B2B apparel brands and private-label buyers in North America and Europe.
FAQMost Nordic accounts run FOB Shenzhen or FOB Yantian, with their own forwarder handling freight and customs into the EU/EEA. Standard payment terms on a new account are 30% T/T deposit on PO confirmation and 70% T/T against copy bill of lading before the vessel sails. Net terms are discussed case-by-case once a few seasons of clean delivery history are in place.
FAQYes. The heavy rib structure and warmer hand feel make it suitable for Nordic and other cold-weather European assortments.
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