Bath textiles are sold on feel and on weight, and they are the one part of a bathroom range where the customer can judge the specification with their hands: a towel that feels thin, a mat that curls or a shower curtain that smells of plastic comes back. We supply wholesale bath textiles from China across bath towels, face and hand towels, bath mats, shower curtains, bathrobes and hair towels, in cotton, bamboo blends and microfibre - the towel and mat programme a supermarket, hotel supplier or online seller reorders by the container.
Cotton carries the towel programme, and it is specified by weight rather than by adjectives: a bath towel is quoted in GSM, with 450-550 GSM the everyday retail weight, 550-650 GSM the mid tier and 600-700 GSM the hotel and premium weight, usually in combed or ring-spun cotton, sometimes zero-twist for a softer, fluffier hand. The quality signals are the yarn count, the pile height, whether the border and the dobby are woven straight, and whether the towel keeps its size after a wash. GSM is the number a buyer checks first, so a towel labelled 500 GSM that weighs 430 GSM is a specification failure rather than a cosmetic one, and it is verified by weighing the finished piece.
Bamboo and cotton-bamboo blends handle the soft-and-sustainable end of the range, and microfibre covers the quick-dry, lightweight and travel pieces. Microfibre is graded on the denier of the fibre, the density of the weave and whether the cloth stays absorbent after repeated washing rather than becoming water-repellent from fabric softener. Colour comes from piece-dyeing or yarn-dyeing, and colour fastness to washing, to rubbing and to light is what decides whether a bath set stays a set after its first ten washes.
Bath mats run across three build types: tufted or chenille cotton mats, memory-foam mats with a microfibre face, and microfibre or PVC mats with a TPR, latex or PVC backing. The backing is what the mat is really bought for - it decides whether the mat grips a wet tiled floor and whether it survives a washing machine without delaminating - so the backing specification is confirmed on a wash test. Shower curtains are mostly PEVA or EVA for the value lines and polyester with a water-repellent finish for the mid and premium lines, judged on thickness, on the absence of the plastic smell that points to a high plasticiser load, on the strength of the eyelets and on the hem that keeps the curtain hanging without curling. Bathrobes span terry, waffle-weave, coral fleece and microfibre, and a hotel-grade terry robe is graded on GSM, on the shawl-collar construction and on the belt and loop that take the daily load.
Send the price ladder and the colour story and we will propose a matched programme - towel, hand towel and mat in one colourway - rather than a list of unrelated pieces, because bath textiles sell as a set and reorder as a set.
Textiles are a labelled product, and the label is a compliance item in its own right:
Shihm is a trading company rather than a testing laboratory, so we do not issue certificates: we confirm the test route with our partner factories against your destination and your customer's specification sheet, and the reports and certificates are issued under the laboratory's or the certifier's name.
Every lot is inspected against the approved pre-production sample before loading, and the inspection report travels with the shipping documents.
Bath textiles are light but bulky, so the carton is designed before production and the freight is carried by the compression and the packing format rather than by the weight:
Because a bath programme is bought as a matched set, it is usually consolidated with the wider bathroom order, which is how the freight is spread across the towels, the mat and the accessories instead of being carried by one line.
What is your MOQ for bath textiles? From 500-1,000 pcs per design on stock colours and sizes; a custom weave, print or colourway carries a higher minimum, quoted per project.
What are your lead times? Seven to twelve days for counter samples, thirty to forty-five days for production after deposit, plus twenty-five to thirty-five days sea freight to Europe or the US East Coast.
Can you confirm the GSM? Yes - the GSM is verified by weighing the finished towel, not read off the greige fabric, so a towel labelled 500 GSM actually weighs 500 GSM.
Will the towels shrink? Shrinkage is checked with a wash-and-measure test against the declared size, and the size printed on the pack is the size after the agreed care cycle.
Is your cotton OEKO-TEX certified? OEKO-TEX Standard 100 is offered on request, depending on the mill; the certificate is issued under the certifier's name and kept with the order file.
Do your bathrobes meet US flammability rules? A bathrobe sold in the United States falls under the general wearing-apparel flammability rule 16 CFR 1610, and the fibre content and care labelling rules apply; the test route is agreed per order.
Will the colours match across a set, and will they bleed? A set is dyed to one colourway and checked for colour fastness to washing and rubbing on the dyed piece, so the set stays a set after its washes.
Do your bath mats keep their grip and the backing? The backing is wash-tested and slip-tested on the assembled mat, because a mat that curls or delaminates is the most common return on this line.
How do we start? Send reference images, the GSM and the colour story you need, plus your target retail price points; we come back with mill options, a sample timetable and a landed cost estimate.