PGF Insider Stories

Silk Dupion Fabric Wholesale: Slub Count and Water Marks

Two winters ago a label in Shahpur Jat sent back a set of twelve jackets, all cut from one piece of dupion, all stitched by the same karigar. The client had accepted nine of them and rejected thr...

Tissue Jacquard Fabric Wholesale: Heat and Slippage

A tailor in Chandni Chowk rang me in March, furious, holding forty metres of tissue jacquard he had cut into blouse pieces the week before. Every single piece had a flat grey rectangle on the sho...

Printed Crepe Fabric Wholesale: Ink Sits On The Peaks

A kurti label in Gandhi Nagar sent back nine hundred metres in July. Their complaint was that the cloth had faded in transit. It had not faded. The thaan they approved on our counter was folded f...

Silk Jacquard Fabric Wholesale: Two Yarns, Two Fibres

A boutique owner in Lajpat Nagar brought me a bill last month and asked why the same design had cost her three different prices from three different counters in one week. All three lengths were s...

Kota Embroidery Fabric Wholesale: The Grid Decides The Work

A designer from Shahpur Jat rang me in April about forty dupattas that had come back from her karigar looking, in her words, slightly drunk. The motifs were fine. The colours were fine. Something...

Imperial Brocade Fabric Wholesale: A Grade Name Is Not A Specification

A boutique owner from Karol Bagh brought back four metres last February and put it on my counter next to the piece she had bought from us in November. Same design. Same supplier code on her copy....

Cut Piece Fabric Wholesale: A Lot Is Only Worth What It Cuts

A reseller from Gandhi Nagar bought a hundred and forty metres of mixed cut piece last winter at a rate he was very pleased with. He rang me three weeks later because he had cut fifty one garment...

Dyeable Jacquard Fabric Wholesale: The Motif Will Not Match The Ground

A boutique owner from Karol Bagh brought back nine metres last October and asked me what had gone wrong at the dyer. Her jacquard had come out of the bath in the rose shade she asked for, but the...

Gota Patti Fabric Wholesale: You Are Paying For Folds, Not Metres

Two gota patti dupatta pieces sat on my counter in April, both on the same yellow cotton, both looking about equally worked from three feet away. One was quoted at Rs 640 a metre. The other was R...

Sandlin Lace Wholesale: You Are Buying Net You Will Cut Off

A tailor in Chandni Chowk once handed me a bill and a finished dupatta at the same time and asked me to explain the gap between them. He had booked nine inch sandlin lace. The border on the dupat...