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Frequently asked questions
How sourcing works, how suppliers are checked, and what sits on your order record.
A UK sourcing platform for businesses buying home textiles from India. We check suppliers, structure your request and keep each order on one record.
We don't make products, and we aren't a marketplace.
Businesses in the UK and Europe: retailers, home textile brands, importers, distributors and private-label buyers. It isn't for personal or one-off consumer orders.
- Bed linen and quilts
- Towels and bath textiles
- Table and kitchen linen
- Cushions and throws
- Private-label home ranges
What's possible depends on each supplier's capability and minimum order quantity.
- 1You connect with a supplier; both sides agree.
- 2You send it a structured RFQ.
- 3You compare quotes and approve a sample.
- 4You place the purchase order.
- 5You track production, inspection and dispatch.
Learn more: how it works · send an RFQ
Verified means three checks, each dated on the supplier's passport: the GST registration, a live video walkthrough of the factory with its location matched to the address on file, and certificates on the scheme's own database. Verification reduces risk; it doesn't replace your own checks on samples and documents.
Learn more: supplier verification
Yes. Search supplier profiles by product, process, certification and capacity; both sides confirm before details are shared. You can also manage suppliers you already use.
Buyers pay nothing to search, send RFQs or place orders on TextileFlow.
Send an RFQ, or write to contact@textileflow.co.uk if you'd rather talk first.
Get started: send an RFQ · contact us
Each supplier sets its own minimum order quantity; product pages show typical bands. Small brands are welcome when the quantity fits a supplier's minimum.
Enough detail to price accurately:
- Product and quantity
- Materials and construction
- Sizes and colours
- Certificates, audits and tests
- Packaging and labelling
- Destination market and timeline
A reference image helps, but on its own it rarely gets an accurate price.
Yes, where a supplier's capability and minimum order fit. Fabric, sizes, colourways, labels and packaging are agreed through samples and recorded on the order record.
Sometimes. Speed depends on supplier capacity, materials and sample status. Put your deadline in the RFQ so suppliers can say what's feasible before you commit.
Any Indian home textile manufacturer or exporter can register. Registration is not verification: we verify a supplier only after checking its identity and company records, its certificates and its factory. Verification is earned, never guaranteed.
- Company registration, owners and factory details
- Products and production capacity
- Export experience
- Current certificates and their scope
- Recent audit reports
- Any subcontractors you use
No. Verification doesn't guarantee RFQs, samples or purchase orders. Buyers choose on product fit, price, capacity, compliance and how well you respond.
Registering is free. Any supplier fee is shown to you before you agree to it.
No. Verification is never sold and there is no paid ranking. Standing is earned from the evidence we check.
Accurate information, clear quotes, work that matches the approved sample and specification, timely updates on the order record, and disclosure of any subcontracting. We review delivery, quality and compliance after each order; suppliers who break these rules can lose verified status.
Requests, comments and revisions sit on the order record. Check each sample against your specification: fabric, measurements, colour, finishing, labels and packaging. The one you approve becomes the benchmark for production.
You decide: your own team or an inspection company you appoint, during production, before dispatch, or both. Their reports sit on the order record beside the approved sample and specification.
No. Samples and inspections reduce risk but can't remove it. Some faults show only after washing, use or lab testing, so agree the right specification, inspections and tests for each order.
They answer different questions:
- Audits: how one site works, at one moment.
- Certificates: cover only the holder, site, product and dates shown.
- Order evidence: specifications, tests, inspections and shipping documents for your goods.
One type does not replace another. Certificates are checked per order.
Yes. Name them in your RFQ; they affect which suppliers fit, the cost and the timeline. Suppliers and issuers are responsible for their documents, and you approve them against your own market's rules.
No. Freight, customs, duties and insurance are agreed between you, the supplier and your logistics provider. Dispatch documents sit on the order record.
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