Our Journey

From field to finished garment.

Every garment has a journey — from a cotton field, through many hands and processes, to a garment you can wear and trust.

Cotton plants with open white bolls in a field at sunrise

Cotton field
Cotton in India is grown mainly in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka. It is a kharif crop, sown with the monsoon and picked by hand from the open bolls between October and February.
Ginning
Ginning is the first step after harvest: raw seed cotton is fed through a gin that pulls the fibre (lint) away from the seed. The lint goes on to spinning; the seed is pressed separately for cottonseed oil and meal.
Spinning
In 2024-25 India exported US$1.47 billion of cotton yarn and 12 to 14 lakh bales of cotton to Bangladesh. FACT Vajiram & Ravi, citing Government of India trade data, 15 February 2026 (opens in a new tab)
Weaving
Weaving turns yarn into cloth on a loom by interlacing two sets of threads at right angles: the lengthwise warp held under tension, and the crosswise weft carried back and forth through it. The pattern of interlacing gives a weave like poplin or twill its look and feel.
Processing (dyeing and finishing)
After weaving, fabric is washed to remove sizing and impurities, dyed or bleached for colour, and finished with steps such as calendering or softening that set its final hand-feel, shrinkage and colour-fastness before it is cut and sewn.
Stitching
The World Bank describes India as the upstream yarn and fabric supplier to Bangladesh's apparel sector. FACT World Bank, February 2019 (opens in a new tab)
Warehousing and distribution
The Government of India's PM MITRA scheme aims to bring the textile value chain together in one place to reduce logistics costs. FACT PIB, 12 December 2025 (opens in a new tab)
Retail
In a widely cited breakdown, about 60% of a T-shirt's retail price went to the retailer (store, staff, rent and tax). FACT Statista, citing Clean Clothes Campaign, 22 May 2025 (opens in a new tab)