Sourcing guides
What we wish every buyer knew before the first enquiry
No thought-leadership, no listicles. These are the six explanations we end up writing by hand in emails every month — fabric weights, tech packs, print methods, defensible environmental claims, and what a jute bag actually costs once it reaches your warehouse.
How to buy jute bags from Bangladesh: a sourcing guide for importers
How the supply chain is actually structured, how to tell a trading house from a mill, the eleven questions that separate a real supplier from a website, and the order of operations that gets you to a first shipment without losing your deposit.
Read the guideJute fabric weights explained: 7 oz to 14 oz, and which one you need
What "oz" actually measures, how weight maps to GSM, what each weight is genuinely good for, and the two mistakes that make a bag either fall apart in month three or cost 40% more than it needed to.
Read the guideHow to specify a custom jute bag: the eight lines every factory needs
A complete tech pack fits on one page. Here is exactly what goes on it, what tolerance to write, and why the word "sturdy" in a brief will cost you a sampling round.
Read the guidePrinting on jute: screen, block, flexo, transfer and embroidery compared
Five methods, five different break-even quantities. Which one to choose by volume and colour count, why your Pantone will shift on a brown substrate, and the minimum line weights that survive a woven surface.
Read the guideAre jute bags really biodegradable? What you can and cannot claim
Untreated jute composts. Laminated jute does not. The difference matters legally now that green-claims enforcement has teeth — so here is a clause-by-clause guide to what survives scrutiny and what will get your packaging redesigned.
Read the guideWhat a jute bag actually costs: a landed-cost breakdown
Every line from fabric to your warehouse door, with the ratios that let you sanity-check any quotation in ninety seconds — and the four hidden costs that turn a cheap unit price into an expensive shipment.
Read the guideStill faster to just ask us.
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