Cardigans knitted under your label
Our partner factories in China knit cardigans in every weight, from fine-gauge office button-ups to chunky hooded zip-ups. The yarn accounts for most of the price gap between a basic acrylic cardigan and a cashmere blend that costs three times as much.
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Cardigans ready to relabel
Partner factories keep plain V-necks and open-fronts for adults and kids in production all year.
Factory price per cardigan
- Acrylic$9–20
- Cotton$9–25
- Wool blends$12–36
- Merino$21–40
- Cashmere blends$28–65
Your order can mix whatever shades and sizes are on the shelf. We swap in your label before shipping.
Ready-made (Stock Match)
- Minimum
- 50 cardigans of one style
- Sourcing fee
- 12% below $5k, 9% to $20k, 7% to $50k, 5% beyond
- Relabeling
- $0.35 a cardigan
- Order to doorstep
- 11–18 days, US addresses
Your own cardigan design
A partner factory starts bulk knitting once you sign off the sample our development team prepares from your sketch or a reference photo. The first sample is ready in 7–12 days. A revised sample needs another 8–13.
Yarn choice
Everyday cardigans are acrylic or cotton, and fine-gauge styles with a slight sheen use a viscose and nylon blend. The fluffy autumn look comes from brushed blends of acrylic and nylon spun with a little mohair or alpaca. Merino costs more and knits thin enough to layer under a blazer.
| Main yarn | US duty |
|---|---|
| Acrylic, nylon or viscose | 52% |
| Synthetic blend with 23% or more wool, cashmere, mohair or alpaca | 37% |
| Cotton | 36.5% |
| Wool, merino, mohair or alpaca | 36% |
| Cashmere blend, mostly cashmere | 36% |
| Pure cashmere | 24% |
A nylon blend with 10% cashmere is below 23% and pays 52%. Those China tariffs have changed twice this year.
Front styles
Office ranges use the buttoned V-neck, whose band lies flat under a shirt collar, while menswear adds shawl collars and zip fronts. An open front has no buttonholes or zip to set in and is the cheapest to finish. The most expensive front is a hooded zip-up, and a long one needs a two-way zip that opens from either end.
Buttons
Plain resin buttons cost a cent or two each. Real horn, corozo, shell and metal ones cost more, up to 60 cents for a large polished button. Heavy metal shank buttons make a fine-gauge band sag. Save them for chunky knits.
Button makers engrave a logo on orders of 500 to 5,000 buttons. The usual minimum for resin and metal styles is 1,000, enough for 200 cardigans with five buttons each. A stock button in a close shade suits smaller runs.
Silhouettes
Lengths go from a cropped cut at a high-rise waistband to a knee-length duster. Hip length covers the top of mid-rise jeans. A duster needs more yarn than a hip-length cardigan and adds weight to the freight bill. Once long chunky styles take an order past 45 kg, it travels by air freight, which costs less per kilo than express and takes 3–4 days longer.
A boyfriend cut's dropped shoulder and wider body take extra yarn compared with a fitted cardigan. Deep patch pockets add a knitted piece and the sewing to attach it, while a three-quarter sleeve on a spring style costs a little less.
Custom (Made to Order)
- Minimum
- 50 cardigans a color, split across sizes
- Price per cardigan
- $19–35 at 50–99 a color and $12–22 at 300–500 in acrylic, cotton or a wool blend. Orders of 100–299 a color are priced between those two. Merino and cashmere are quoted style by style.
- Development fee
- $180–320 per style
- Size range
- XXS to 6XL, plus kids' sizes from 2T
- Labels and packaging
- Included
- Deposit to doorstep
- 31–48 days, US addresses; reorders 21–30
Photos for your listings
We don't charge for the Launch Kit we put together for every cardigan style you order. The kit is made from photos of your finished cardigans taken during inspection.
- Five clean product shots
- One image of the cardigan on an AI model
- A 10-second clip for Reels and TikTok with your logo in the final frame
More AI model images are $9 apiece and arrive in 3 business days.
School cardigans
Plain kids' cardigans from the ready-made range cost $6–17 at the factory. A cardigan with an embroidered school crest is a Custom order, where the whole size run of one color counts toward the 50-cardigan minimum.
Uniform suppliers order acrylic or a cotton blend rather than pure wool for cardigans that go through the home wash every week. A cotton-rich cardigan pays 15.5 points less US duty than an acrylic one.
Send us the crest artwork and the factory embroiders it on the left chest. The crest's stitch file is a one-off $10–75, after which machine embroidery is $1–3 for every thousand stitches. A 3-inch crest takes between 2,000 and 10,000 stitches and 5–10 extra days.
Kids' sizes in the US
Kids' cardigans sold in the US need Children's Product Certificates backed by tests from a lab the CPSC accepts. Zips and other trims are tested for lead. Garment buttons are exempt from the federal ban on small parts, yet the CPSC has recalled kids' cardigans whose buttons came off. Labs pull-test buttons on toddler sizes as part of physical checks that cost $200–800 a style. Tracking information that identifies the batch goes on the cardigan and its packaging. A hooded style in sizes 2T–12 can't have a cord around the hood or neckline.
A price within a day
Our team prices a cardigan from one photo and the yarn you name.