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men's sweater 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.
ProductBrown men's sweater 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.
A craftsmanship guide comparing jacquard and intarsia knitwear for brands developing graphic sweaters, pattern cardigans and custom artwork.
ResourceStitch structure is the single biggest lever a product developer can pull after yarn and gauge. It decides how a sweater drapes, what it weighs, how long it takes a flat-bed machine to produce, and how forgiving the body is on a fit range. This guide walks through the four stitch families that account for the vast majority of men's knitwear we produce in Dongguan — jersey/plain, rib, cable, and jacquard — and explains what each one costs you in yarn and knit time, where it works on the gauge ladder, the failure modes that surface in fit sessions and inspection, and the buyer scenarios where one beats the others. The goal is to help you spec a knit collection on commercial reality, not on mood-board photography.
ResourceIn September 2026, a Dongguan knitwear factory counted every first-contact enquiry by theme. About one in three buyers sent reference photos, while fewer than one in ten had a finished tech pack. Four in ten raised sampling in their first message. Roughly one in five asked for zip-front pieces, and the same share asked for motifs knitted in through jacquard or intarsia. Cotton was mentioned slightly more often than all animal fibres combined, and about one in five enquiries came from womenswear brands.
ResourceA buyer's glossary of 40+ custom knitwear sourcing terms — MOQ, gauge (GG), FOB/Incoterms, tech pack, lab dip, fully-fashioned, jacquard, OEM/ODM and more — each with a plain definition and a link to a deeper guide.
ResourceReference benchmark ranges for B2B knitwear procurement in 2026 — MOQ, lead times, cost structure, gauge, quality control and commercial terms — to help buyers sanity-check quotes and plan with confidence.
ResourceMost sourcing scorecards still treat per-piece FOB as the headline KPI, and most brand directors quietly know it lies. In knitwear specifically — where every program runs through yarn development, lab dips, knit-down approval, wash trials, and a sampling room that has to learn your house fit — the cost of a garment is paid across eighteen months of friction, not in a single price line on a quotation. This article lays out a three-year total cost of ownership (TCO) model for knitwear supplier relationships aimed at brand directors and VPs of sourcing who keep getting pressured to chase a 40-cent FOB delta to a new factory. We walk through how sample cost actually declines as a supplier internalizes your spec (year 1 = 100, year 2 ≈ 70, year 3 ≈ 50), why reorders compress from week 7 to week 3 once a tech pack is genuinely owned by the other side, how yarn library carry-over kills new color development charges each season, and how production calendar priority — the unwritten advantage — only accrues to brands that stay. We also do the part most of these articles skip: the honest exit triggers. Communication breakdown, repeated first-bulk quality failure, no capability growth after eighteen months — these are real reasons to leave, and we name them. The argument is not loyalty for its own sake. It is that switching suppliers each season in knitwear almost always pays a 15-25% premium the FOB line does not show.
ResourceA cardigan direction read built from our own published range rather than runway notes: zip and button are level at 25 each on the construction field, 44 of 71 styles sit in the 7GG–12GG band, and the fibre choice moves the index median 4.4× from USD 14.98 to 66.05. What that means for AW27 booking.
ResourceA men's AW2027 direction read counted from our own published range rather than runway notes: zip leads button 57 to 33 across the 92 styles carrying a front closure, 63.1% of the book sits at 7GG-12GG, and 50.6% of styles name both wool and cotton in the same composition.
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.
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 jacquard and intarsia knitwear capability helps buyers developing graphic sweaters, Nordic patterns, logo-free seasonal artwork and color-blocked knitwear. The work focuses on practical B2B development decisions rather than retail-style visuals, connecting product direction, material choices, sample review, production feasibility and export-ready quality control. Buyers can use this page to understand what information should be prepared, which technical decisions affect cost and lead time, and how Licheng Knitwear turns an initial sourcing request into a sample-ready or production-ready plan.
CapabilityA blank is a finished garment with no logo, no graphic and no jacquard on it — a body you put your own label into. Of the 410 styles published on this site, 278 are undecorated and can be produced as blanks, including 108 zip-through and cardigan bodies, across 14 product categories and a 3GG–18GG in-house gauge range. This page is for buyers who already know what they want to make: a designer working from a sketch, a brand replacing a discontinued body, a club or label producing its own run. What you need from a factory in that position is not styling — it is a clean garment, in your colour, with your label in it, at a quantity that makes sense. One thing worth saying plainly, because it is the most common misreading of our catalogue: the colour you see in a product photo is the sample colourway, not the range. Every published style is made to order, and colour is a specification you give us, not a shelf we pick from. If a body works for you in grey, you can have it in black.
CapabilityHand-finished colour blocks, jacquard panels, embroidery, appliqué, woven labels and hangtag support for branded knitwear. Our branding capability helps buyers adding subtle brand details, woven labels, hangtags and decorative finishing — for private-label and own-brand programs where the buyer cares about the small details that telegraph quality.
CapabilityOversized knitwear is not a bigger sweater - it is a different set of decisions about gauge, stitch tension, yarn character and where the shoulder sits. We develop relaxed and oversized silhouettes with deliberately opened stitch density, most often at 7GG, in yarns chosen for a soft, hairy, lightweight handle: wool/alpaca blends, mohair blends and brushed lambswool. Half-cardigan (half-brioche / fisherman rib), full-cardigan rib, cable, pointelle and open-work, jacquard and intarsia are all knitted in house across 3GG-18GG. Minimum order stays 30 pieces per colour with sizes mixed inside that 30, so a first collection or a capsule drop is workable.
CapabilityOur linking and knit construction capability helps buyers choosing between full-fashion linking, cup-seam linking and cut-and-sew finishing each driving a different price point, hand-feel and shoulder line. Full-fashion linking on Shima Seiki and hand-linking stations gives the cleanest seam and best drape for premium programs; cup-seam linking balances cost and cleanliness for mid-tier; cut-and-sew is the workhorse for high-volume basics and chunky styles. On the stitch side we knit plain jersey, 1x1 and 2x2 rib, half-cardigan (half-brioche / fisherman rib) and full-cardigan rib, cable, pointelle and open-work, jacquard and intarsia, and we develop deliberately loose-tension, open and relaxed handles at 7GG for oversized silhouettes. We help match the construction method to your target retail price, gauge and quantity, so the sweater feels right in hand and the unit cost lands where the program needs it.
CapabilityKnitwear for a club, a school, a team or a company is a different order from a fashion programme, and the difference is the date. A homecoming, a season opener, a centenary, an annual dinner - the day is fixed long before anyone chooses a garment, and the only question that really decides the order is whether the pieces arrive before it. Of our 410 published styles, 278 carry no applied decoration and can take your crest instead. MOQ is 30 pieces per colour. Tell us the date you need them in hand and we plan backwards from it rather than forwards from the order.
CapabilityOur color matching capability helps buyers locking Pantone shades through a structured lab-dip approval process so the shade signed off on sample becomes the shade that lands in bulk. We work with Pantone Solid Coated (TCX on request), run a standard three-round lab-dip cycle, and target deltaE under 1.5 against the approved standard under D65 lighting. For custom-dyed programs we hold the approved yarn lot through bulk; for stock-yarn programs we confirm the chosen colour on a yarn-knit blanket before knitting starts. Color drift between sample and bulk is the single most common buyer complaint in knitwear sourcing this workflow is built to remove it.
CapabilityChoosing a knitwear factory is four decisions, not one: which construction you want, which yarn supports it, how many pieces you can commit to per colour, and how long you can wait. This page answers those four with figures we publish rather than adjectives. Licheng Knitwear runs OEM, ODM and private label knitwear from Dongguan, China. Minimum order is 30 pieces per colour and style, with sizes mixable inside the 30. Samples run 15 to 25 days from a confirmed tech pack and yarn; bulk runs 30 to 45 days. If those three numbers do not fit your project, the rest of this page will not change that, and it is better that you know now.
CapabilityLicheng Knitwear produces custom knitwear from a minimum of 30 pieces per colour per style, and sizes may be mixed inside those 30 - so a first collection can launch with a full size run rather than thirty identical mediums. That single rule is what most small brands are actually asking about when they contact a knitwear factory, and it is the same across all 462 published styles in our catalogue. This page sets out what a brand gets at that quantity and what it does not: the same 3GG to 18GG machines, the same OEKO-TEX Standard 100, ISO 9001, GRS and GOTS certified production, and the same 15 to 25 day sampling as an eight-thousand-piece programme. It is written for founders placing a first production order, small labels testing one style before committing, and established brands adding a capsule outside their main range.
Jacquard carries every colour across the row as floats on the reverse, so colour count per row is the constraint. Intarsia uses a separate yarn carrier for each colour block and leaves no floats, so the fabric stays single-thickness and light, but it knits more slowly and costs more.
FAQJacquard knits multiple colours across a row carrying yarns on the back (good for repeating patterns); intarsia uses separate yarn blocks per colour with no floats (good for large, clean colour blocks and logos).
FAQYes - jacquard and argyle are knitted in, not printed. Colour count drives cost and knitting time far more than pattern complexity does, so tell us the colour count early.
FAQYes - both add complexity and time versus a plain knit; intarsia is usually more labour-intensive. We quote per design.
FAQPatterned construction is slower on the machine — a multi-color fair-isle panel can knit 30–50% slower than a plain panel of the same weight — and each additional color adds a yarn lot to qualify, a lab dip to approve, and a dye-lot risk. Heavier holiday gauges (3GG–5GG chunky) also use more grams per piece, which lengthens dye and knitting time. The cumulative effect is two to four extra weeks versus a basic crew on the same calendar.
FAQAt Licheng it is 30 pieces per colour, the same as plain knits, and sizes can be mixed within the 30. Samples take 15–25 days and bulk 30–45 days.
FAQLess than you expect. Mid-tone warm neutrals - oatmeal, ecru, turtledove grey, camel - let cable, rib, pointelle and jacquard read clearly because the shadow inside the stitch has somewhere to fall. Very dark navy, charcoal and black flatten the same structure; at two metres a cable that reads beautifully in oatmeal can disappear in black. If the colourway has to be dark, we usually go a gauge heavier, deepen the cable, or add a contrast trim. Decide the structure and the shade together rather than in sequence.
FAQYes. We knit on our own flat-bed machines across 3GG-18GG, so jacquard 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.
FAQYes. We knit on our own flat-bed machines across 3GG-18GG, so jacquard 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.
FAQYes. We knit on our own flat-bed machines across 3GG-18GG, so jacquard 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.
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