Double Gauze: Shaoxing Mujia Textile Holds 182 Dyed Recipes So a 300 m Order Skips the Custom Lot
Zhuji, China - November 12, 2026 - Shaoxing Mujia Textile has built its cotton double gauze colour range to 182 references, all of them shades the dyehouse has already run and holds a proven recipe for, so that a 300 m order can be placed without paying for a custom dye lot.
The number is often read as stock. It is not. Nothing sits in a warehouse at 182 colours. What sits on file is 182 recipes: the dye concentration, the temperature curve and the wash-off sequence that produced an approved shade the first time. When a buyer orders reference 47, the dyehouse pulls recipe 47 and runs a fresh lot against it. The lot matches the card because the recipe is proven, not because the cloth has been ageing in a corner.
The economics behind a deep card are in the change-over. Every colour change costs a machine clean-down: vessel wash, pipe flush, and the first metres of the new lot, which run to waste until the shade stabilises. On a 300 m order that waste is a meaningful share of the run. On a 3,000 m order it disappears. A mill that holds twelve colours has not saved the change-over cost, it has never paid it, which means every order it accepts has to be either large or expensive.
The programme runs two qualities. M4011 is 100% cotton at 125 GSM (grams per square metre) and 135 cm, with a natural crinkle that comes from the weave itself rather than from a finish, and it carries the full 182 references. A shade outside the card is a lab dip, a small sample dyed against a submitted reference, at the same 300 m minimum. M4011-1 is the printed version on the same base construction at 140 GSM, digitally printed, with twenty floral designs held at three colourways each, so sixty print references are ready to ship. Digital print needs no engraved screen, so sixty is what is ready rather than what is possible; a buyer's own artwork runs at the same 300 m minimum with no plate fee.
"Nobody needs 182 colours, and nobody orders 182," says Emily Zhou, founder and director of Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd. "A buyer orders three and reorders two. The depth is there so that the three can be any three, at 300 metres, without a custom lot behind them."
Minimums work per shade, not per order. A buyer building a five-colour capsule takes 300 m of each rather than 1,500 m of one. Splitting 300 m across three colours does not work, because the change-over is charged per colour and 100 m does not cover it.
The infant and toddler category asks a different question, about skin contact. M4011 is produced to a specification the mill documents on request; the mill does not print a certification claim on the product page because the certificate is held by the dyehouse rather than by the weaver. A buyer who asks receives the holder's name and the certificate number and can verify both.
The mill weaves in Fengqiao, Zhuji, on 30 Lenado air-jet looms in a 5,000 square metre shed, about five million metres a year, weaving since 2012. It does not dye: the dyeing and the 182 recipes sit at partner mills, and the mill holds the shade approval between the buyer and those partners.
Specifications for both qualities are on the cotton double gauze page, https://mujiatextile.com/cotton-double-gauze-manufacturer.html.
**About Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd.**
Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd. is a weaver of cotton and velvet fabrics in Zhuji, Zhejiang, founded in 2012. It runs 30 Lenado air-jet looms in a 5,000 square metre plant and produces about five million metres of woven fabric a year. Standard terms are 300 m per colour, about 15 days after colour confirmation, FOB China port, with AQL 2.5 inspection, the acceptable quality limit sampling level, and a four-point check on every roll. Company profile and full range at the Shaoxing Mujia Textile website, https://mujiatextile.com.