Quick answer: A hemp fabric clothing company is one of three different businesses — a brand selling hemp garments under its own label, a manufacturer stitching hemp clothing for other brands, or a fabric supplier selling hemp cloth by the metre. India has all three, clustered in Bangalore and Hyderabad for brands and in Faridabad and the NCR belt for manufacturing. Compact Buying Services is the third type, supplying hemp fabric and coordinating hemp garment production from Faridabad. Tell us which type you are looking for and we will route you to the right conversation.
Searching for a “hemp fabric clothing company” returns a confusing mix. You will find D2C brands selling hemp shirts, private-label factories advertising white-label hemp production, fabric traders listing hemp by the metre, and marketplace sellers with a hemp-labelled cotton garment. All four appear in the same results, and they are not the same business.
This page is a map of that landscape. It separates the three company types and explains what each one actually does, names the better-known players in each category, sets out the market size and the Indian policy context that shapes supply, explains the certification stack a genuine company should hold, maps the geographic clusters, and gives a practical framework for choosing between them.
The honest framing is worth stating at the start. India's hemp clothing market is young and fragmented. The global hemp clothing market was valued at roughly $6.84 billion in 2021 and is projected to reach around $63 billion by 2029
A brand, a manufacturer and a fabric supplier are three different businesses that all describe themselves as a “hemp clothing company.” Knowing which one you are talking to is the first decision in any sourcing conversation.
Most of the frustration in this market comes from asking one type for what another type provides. A brand cannot quote you a private-label MOQ. A fabric trader cannot show you a stitched garment. A manufacturer cannot tell you what a consumer will pay at retail.
| Type | What it does | What it sells | What it cannot do |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brand | Designs a range, defines the fit and the identity, and usually outsources production to a manufacturer. | Finished garments to consumers, under its own label, through D2C, marketplace or retail. | Quote you a private-label MOQ, or stitch your design — it is not a factory. |
| Manufacturer | Owns or operates the stitching floor and produces garments for other companies. | Private-label or OEM garments, usually at a minimum quantity per style and colour. | Tell you what a consumer will pay, or sell you a single piece. |
| Fabric supplier | Sources, weaves, dyes or trades hemp fabric in bulk. | Hemp cloth by the metre, to brands, manufacturers and traders. | Show you a stitched garment, or quote a garment MOQ — it sells cloth. |
The practical test is one question. Ask what the company's core output is: a labelled garment, a production run, or a roll of cloth. The answer tells you which conversation you are in, and whether the MOQ, the price basis and the delivery timeline you are about to hear are even relevant to what you need.
The best-known hemp-focused clothing brands in India are Ecentric, Shibui, Swabhav, The House of Hemp and Hemp Republic, with Boheco as the earliest mover in the wider hemp business rather than in clothing alone.
The table below is drawn from public sources for context, not as a recommendation. A buyer should verify any claim independently before ordering.
| Brand | Location and founding | What it is known for |
|---|---|---|
| Ecentric | Bangalore, founded 2020 by Salendra Gupta, an IIM Calcutta alum | A hemp-focused D2C brand making lounge pants, yoga wear, co-ords and everyday clothing for men and women. Started with 30 products and ₹10 lakh investment and reached ₹2.5 crore in revenue with 100+ SKUs, with a stated target of ₹100 crore ARR by 2027. Paper packaging and coconut shell buttons are part of the product story |
| Shibui | India, with a founder active on LinkedIn as recently as December 2024 | Describes itself as an end-to-end private-label apparel manufacturer with a special focus on hemp, working with both Indian and international brands. ISO certified, hemp certified, Lenzing certified, MSME certified and holding an IEC certificate |
| Swabhav | India, on Its Hemp, products listed from 2025 onwards | A clothing label focused on natural fibres with hemp as an everyday material. Designs and manufactures in small batches with in-house manufacturing, and describes itself as among India's first brands to mainstream hemp in everyday clothing. Product range is dresses, shirts, pajamas and tops |
| The House of Hemp | India, trading as thohemp | Leads on GOTS-certified hemp yarn and states that its yarn is certified organic from fibre to finish, with in-house production described as a shorter supply chain and lower footprint |
| Hemp Republic | Hyderabad, founded around 2019 | One of the earlier GOTS-certified hemp clothing efforts in India, founded by Prashansa and Varun Gupta, who described the difficulty of getting GOTS certification and fair-trade compliance in place before launch |
| Boheco (Bombay Hemp Company) | Mumbai, founded 2013 | The earliest well-known hemp business in India and the one most often cited as the sector's starting point |
| Himalayan Hemp | Kangra, Himachal Pradesh | A cooperative focused on the indigenous Himalayan hemp community, selling hemp clothing and accessories alongside food essentials and reusable sanitary pads, and providing consulting on law, finance, product design and policy |
Two patterns are worth drawing out. First, the brands are mostly small and founder-led, which is typical of a young category and means a buyer should expect a direct conversation rather than a corporate sales process. Second, several “brands” are actually manufacturers — Shibui is explicit about being a private-label manufacturer, and Swabhav manufactures in-house. That is not a problem, but it changes what you can ask them for.
The manufacturing layer is where Faridabad and the NCR dominate. The factories that stitch hemp garments for other brands sit at Sector 28, Sector 68 IMT and DLF Industrial Area Phase-1 and Phase-II, with Tiruppur and Erode handling much of the certified organic knit.
These are the companies you talk to when you have a design and need it made, rather than a brand to buy from.
| Company | Location | Manufacturing model |
|---|---|---|
| Hemp Foundation | Plot 141, Sector 68 IMT, Faridabad, founded 2019 | Manufactures and distributes hemp-based products including fabrics, clothing, bags and towels, serving the B2B fashion and apparel industry |
| The NoName Company | Sector 49, Kalindi Hills, Faridabad, founded 2018 | A private-label exporter of customized garments, fabrics, trims and accessories for small to midsize fashion brands globally, using organic cotton, linen, hemp, bamboo and Tencel. Holds GOTS, ISO, BCI, GRS and Sedex and exports worldwide. The founder's background includes Walmart, Target and M&S programmes |
| Saivana Garments | Plot 25, DLF Industrial Area Phase-2, Faridabad | End-product manufacturing with fabric finishing including dyeing, textile embroidering and textile printing |
| Sawhney Global Creations | Building 16, DLF Industrial Area Phase-II, Faridabad | Manufacturing and supply of readymade garments, listed among flax, linen and hemp manufacturers. Holds a Masters of FLAX FIBRE™ certificate from Bureau Véritas for the manufacture and supply of readymade garments, certified from June 2023 to May 2026 and suspended since April 2025 |
| Vamani Overseas | Plot 6F, Additional Industrial Area, NIT, Faridabad | Garment manufacturing and embroidery, listed among flax, linen and hemp manufacturers. A NIT-side option rather than a DLF or Sector 68 one. |
| Five P Venture | India, GOTS certified | A GOTS-certified sustainable clothing, fabric and home furnishings manufacturer using eco-friendly raw materials including organic cotton, Eri silk, hemp and khadi, across womenswear, menswear and outerwear |
| Hemp Style Exports | India | Describes itself as a hemp clothing manufacturer and supplier, listing a bulk MOQ of around 1,000 units per style and per colour |
| The Hemploom | Noida and Delhi | A hemp fabric manufacturer and supplier offering blended fabrics with flexible MOQs, custom development and ready-to-brand apparel solutions |
One observation from that table is worth stating plainly. The strongest hemp-specific identity sits with the smallest companies, and the strongest manufacturing capability sits with the general garment factories. Hemp Foundation is the dedicated hemp manufacturer but is a small operation; Saivana and Shahi are large export factories that can run hemp inside an existing line. Matching the order to the right one is the whole of the sourcing decision.
A hemp fabric supplier sells cloth, not garments. It is the company you go to when you or your manufacturer need hemp fabric by the metre, and it is the layer where the fibre-origin and blend-ratio questions actually get answered.
This is the category Compact Buying Services sits in, alongside companies such as The Hemploom and a long tail of traders who list hemp without necessarily weaving it.
The distinction matters because a fabric supplier is where a brand discovers what “hemp” actually means in practice. The cloth is almost always a blend — a 26% hemp / 74% lyocell, or a 55/45 hemp-cotton, or a hemp-linen — because 100% hemp is coarse, expensive and difficult to garment. A supplier who can tell you the blend ratio, the GSM, the fibre origin and the certification attached to the lot is operating a real supply chain. A supplier who says “hemp fabric” and quotes a price per metre is repackaging someone else’s cloth.
Three questions separate the two. What is the blend ratio and the GSM? Those two numbers explain most of the price difference between two “hemp fabric” quotes. Which fibre origin is this lot built on? India does not grow enough hemp for its own textile demand, so a significant share arrives as imported processed fibre — which is legitimate, but should not be presented as Indian-grown. Does the certification cover this lot? A GOTS scope certificate proves the facility is certified and states on its face that it does not prove your goods are; the transaction certificate is the document that does.
The global hemp clothing market was valued at roughly USD 6.84 billion in 2021 and is projected to reach around USD 63 billion by 2029 at a compound annual growth rate of about 32%. India does not publish a separate figure, and the country-level data is fragmented.
That gap is worth being honest about, because most “India hemp clothing market” numbers circulating online are either global projections with an India paragraph attached, or a single company's revenue presented as a market total.
| Global hemp clothing market, 2021 | Around USD 6.84 billion |
|---|---|
| Global projection, 2029 | Around USD 63.04 billion, at a CAGR of roughly 32% |
| India-specific market size | Not published as a standalone figure; the country data sits inside paywalled Asia-Pacific reports |
| A measurable Indian brand datapoint | Ecentric: ₹10 lakh investment in 2020 to ₹2.5 crore revenue, 100+ SKUs, targeting ₹100 crore ARR by 2027 |
| A measurable Indian cluster datapoint | Faridabad apparel cluster: over 50 export units, 30 fabric processing units, 60,000+ employed, around ₹3,000 crore of apparel export potential |
| Structural context | India is the largest GOTS-certified facility base in the world and grows roughly half the world's organic cotton, but hemp fibre supply remains thin |
The practical read for a buyer is that the category is growing fast from a small base, which is exactly the condition in which supplier quality varies most. In a mature market the weak suppliers have already been filtered out. In a market growing at this rate, they have not — which is why the due-diligence questions on this page matter more than the market size headline.
Hemp clothing is legal in India; hemp cultivation is licensed state by state, with a 0.3% THC cap in the states that permit it. Himachal Pradesh's December 2025 industrial hemp policy, under a “Green to Gold” initiative, is the most significant recent development.
This is the part of the market that most company pages skip, and it is the reason Indian hemp fabric clothing companies depend on imported processed fibre for a meaningful share of their supply.
Himachal Pradesh. The Chief Minister launched a policy push to legalise and regulate industrial hemp cultivation in December 2025, positioning it as a driver of the state's bio-economy and self-reliance by 2027. The policy caps THC below 0.3% to keep the crop non-intoxicating, and names pharmaceuticals, textiles and apparel, paper and packaging, cosmetics, biofuel and construction materials as target sectors. A pilot for controlled cultivation was cleared by the Cabinet on 24 January 2025, and officials expect annual revenue of ₹1,000 crore to over ₹2,000 crore once fully scaled. Institutions including CSK HPKV Palampur and Dr Y S Parmar University are developing region-specific low-THC seed varieties, and the committee studied Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh models before recommending regulated cultivation
Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh. Uttarakhand was the earlier mover and is one of the two models the Himachal committee studied
What it means for a clothing company. Three things. Fibre supply is improving but is not yet sufficient for domestic demand, so a hemp fabric clothing company that claims 100% Indian-grown fibre deserves a follow-up question. The THC cap means the regulatory risk is low for a textile business, because the product is non-intoxicating by definition. And the policy direction is clearly supportive, which is why the number of hemp clothing companies in India has grown rather than shrunk despite the supply constraints.
GOTS is the standard most buyers look for on a hemp clothing claim, supported by GRS for recycled content, OEKO-TEX for chemical safety and Sedex, SMETA or WRAP for social audit. The lot-level transaction certificate matters more than the company-level logo.
Several Indian hemp brands lead explicitly with GOTS-certified hemp yarn — The House of Hemp states that its yarn is certified organic from fibre to finish
| GOTS | Organic fibre content plus ecological and social criteria across every processing stage. Requires at least 95% certified organic fibre for the “organic” label, or 70% for “made with organic.” The certificate most EU, UK and US buyers will ask for. |
|---|---|
| GRS | Recycled content plus chain of custody, environmental and social criteria at processing sites. Relevant where a hemp garment includes recycled fibre, not a substitute for GOTS on the organic claim. |
| OEKO-TEX Standard 100 | Chemical safety of the finished textile. Says nothing about whether the fibre is organic — a fabric can be OEKO-TEX certified and made entirely from conventional fibre. |
| Sedex / SMETA / WRAP | Social audit at the sewing floor. Saivana Garments holds SEDEX and WRAP; Shivalik Design is SMETA audited; The NoName Company holds Sedex |
| The lot-level rule | A scope certificate proves the facility is certified. A transaction certificate proves your order is. Ask for both, and match the buyer name and quantity on the TC to your order. |
One practical warning. A certificate listing is not a certificate status. Sawhney Global Creations in Faridabad appears in the Masters of FLAX FIBRE™ directory with a Bureau Véritas certificate for the manufacture and supply of readymade garments, certified from June 2023 to May 2026 — and suspended since April 2025
Brands cluster in Bangalore and Hyderabad; manufacturing clusters in Faridabad and the NCR belt; certified organic knit clusters in Tiruppur and Erode. A hemp clothing company's location tells you what it is likely to be good at.
| Bangalore | The brand cluster. Ecentric is based here, and the city's D2C and startup ecosystem is why a founder-led hemp clothing brand starts here rather than in a garment town |
|---|---|
| Hyderabad | An early brand cluster. Hemp Republic was founded here and was among the earlier GOTS-certified hemp clothing efforts |
| Faridabad and NCR | The manufacturing cluster, and the deepest one for hemp garments. Over 50 apparel export units and 30 fabric processing units, 60,000+ employed, around ₹3,000 crore of apparel export potential |
| Tiruppur and Erode, Tamil Nadu | The certified organic knit cluster. Five P Venture is a GOTS-certified sustainable clothing and fabric manufacturer working across organic cotton, Eri silk, hemp and khadi |
| Kangra, Himachal Pradesh | The community and policy cluster. Himalayan Hemp operates as a cooperative focused on the indigenous Himalayan hemp community, selling clothing and accessories alongside food and sanitary products, and providing law, finance, product design and policy consulting |
| Mumbai | The earliest mover. Boheco was founded in 2013 and is the company most often cited as the starting point of the Indian hemp business |
The practical implication is that a hemp clothing brand and a hemp garment factory are usually in different cities. That is why sourcing hemp clothing in India is often a two-city exercise — the brand in Bangalore or Hyderabad, the factory in Faridabad or Tiruppur. Faridabad has an unusual advantage here because its fabric processing and its garment manufacturing sit in the same industrial geography, which collapses the sampling loop.
Start by deciding which of the three company types you need. Then ask the four questions that separate a real company from a trader: fibre composition as a percentage, lot-level certification, a physical product, and a named factory.
The evaluation criteria differ by type, but the underlying test is the same — can this company answer a specific question with a specific answer, or does it retreat into sustainability language?
| Question | What a good answer sounds like |
|---|---|
| “Which of the three are you — brand, manufacturer or fabric supplier?” | A clear answer, with the core output named. A company that describes itself as all three is usually strong at one and reselling the other two. |
| “What is the fibre composition as a percentage, and what is the GSM?” | Exact figures. This single question explains most of the price gap between two hemp clothing quotes and catches most counterfeit listings. |
| “Which certification covers this specific lot, and can you send the transaction certificate?” | A named standard and a lot-level document, not a company-level scope certificate. |
| “Can you show me a physical product — a stitched garment or a cutting length?” | A physical item, not a photograph. A manufacturer should be able to name the factory it came off. |
Two further points that are specific to this market. A brand's social media presence is not evidence of supply-chain depth — several hemp clothing brands are marketing-led and outsource everything, which is legitimate but means the supply-chain questions are answered by their factory, not by them. And a very low price on a hemp garment is usually a composition story — a hemp shirt priced like a cotton shirt is generally a cotton shirt with a hemp label, and the way to find out is the composition percentage and the certificate.
Compact Buying Services is the third type of hemp fabric clothing company — a fabric supplier and production coordinator, based in Faridabad, working with the garment factories in the same city. We are not a consumer brand and we do not sell single garments.
The reason that positioning matters is that it lets us answer the questions a brand or a manufacturer actually has, without the conflict of also selling a competing label.
If you are a brand looking for a manufacturer, a manufacturer looking for hemp cloth, or a buyer trying to work out which of the three company types you actually need, tell us at enquiry and we will say plainly which conversation you are in — including when the answer is that we are not the right company for what you need.
Positioning last reviewed: 30 October 2026. Product and certification availability confirmed per lot at enquiry.
A hemp fabric clothing company is a business that designs, manufactures, sources or sells garments made from hemp or hemp-blend fabric. The category covers three very different types of company: a brand that sells hemp clothing under its own label, a manufacturer that stitches hemp garments for other brands on a private-label or OEM basis, and a fabric supplier that sells hemp cloth by the metre. Most confusion in this market comes from treating those three as interchangeable — a fabric trader is not a clothing company, and a private-label factory is not a brand. Ask any company which of the three it actually is before you place an order.
The best-known hemp-focused clothing brands in India include Ecentric, a Bangalore brand founded in 2020 by Salendra Gupta, which started with 30 products and ₹10 lakh and reached ₹2.5 crore in revenue with 100+ SKUs; Shibui, an end-to-end private-label apparel manufacturer working in hemp for Indian and international brands; Swabhav, a label focused on natural fibres with hemp as an everyday material and in-house manufacturing; The House of Hemp, which uses GOTS-certified hemp yarn and describes in-house production; and Hemp Republic in Hyderabad, one of the earlier GOTS-certified hemp clothing efforts. Bombay Hemp Company (Boheco), founded in 2013, was among the first to build a hemp business in India, though its range extends beyond clothing into food, construction and wellness.
Hemp clothing companies cluster in three places for three different reasons. Bangalore and Hyderabad have brand-led companies selling direct to consumer, because the founder base and the D2C ecosystem are there. Faridabad and the NCR belt have the manufacturing depth — Faridabad alone has over 50 apparel export units and 30 fabric processing units employing more than 60,000 people, with hemp garment factories at Sector 28, Sector 68 IMT and DLF Industrial Area Phase-1 and Phase-II. Tiruppur and Erode in Tamil Nadu have the certified organic knit capability. A brand and a factory are usually in different cities, which is why sourcing hemp clothing is often a two-city exercise.
The global hemp clothing market was valued at roughly USD 6.84 billion in 2021 and is projected to reach around USD 63 billion by 2029, a compound annual growth rate of about 32% according to market research cited in trade press. India does not publish a separate hemp clothing market figure, and the country-level data is fragmented across paywalled reports. What is measurable in India is the producer side: a ₹2.5 crore brand built from ₹10 lakh in five years, and a garment cluster with around ₹3,000 crore of apparel export potential. Treat any India-specific hemp clothing market number with caution unless it names its methodology.
Yes. Manufacturing, selling and exporting hemp clothing is legal in India. Cultivation is the regulated part and is licensed state by state, with a nationwide 0.3% THC limit applied in the states that permit it. Himachal Pradesh launched its industrial hemp policy in December 2025 under a Green to Gold initiative, capping THC below 0.3% and naming textiles and apparel among the target sectors, with a pilot cleared in January 2025 and an annual revenue expectation of ₹1,000–2,000 crore once scaled. Uttarakhand was the earlier mover, and Madhya Pradesh was studied as a model before Himachal framed its policy. None of that restricts a brand or manufacturer from buying, making and selling hemp apparel.
A brand designs and sells under its own label and usually outsources production. A manufacturer owns or operates the stitching floor and produces for other brands, often on a private-label or OEM basis. Shibui describes itself as an end-to-end private-label apparel manufacturer — that is a manufacturer, not a brand in the consumer sense. Ecentric is a brand that sells hemp clothing to consumers. The distinction matters because the questions you ask are different: a brand conversation is about fit, range and price to consumer; a manufacturer conversation is about MOQ, fabric sourcing, pattern-making, finishing and delivery date.
GOTS is the standard most buyers look for on a hemp clothing claim, and it covers organic fibre content plus processing, chemical and social criteria. Several Indian hemp companies lead with GOTS-certified hemp yarn — The House of Hemp states that its hemp yarn is GOTS-certified from fibre to finish. Beyond GOTS, the relevant stack is GRS for recycled content, OEKO-TEX for chemical safety, BCI for Better Cotton where cotton is blended in, and Sedex, SMETA or WRAP for social audit at the sewing floor. A brand that claims organic without a transaction certificate covering the lot is making a claim it may not be able to support, which is why the lot-level document matters more than the logo.
Start by deciding which of the three company types you need — brand, manufacturer or fabric supplier — because the evaluation criteria differ. For a manufacturer, ask to see a stitched hemp garment it made and the factory it came off. For a brand, ask what its fibre composition is as a percentage and which certification covers the lot. For a fabric supplier, ask for the blend ratio, the GSM and the transaction certificate. Across all three, the questions that separate a real company from a trader are the same: can it name the fibre origin, can it produce a lot-level certificate, and can it show you a physical product rather than a photograph.
Faridabad is the garment-manufacturing centre of the NCR hemp supply chain. AEPC-ATDC put the Faridabad apparel cluster at over 50 export units and 30 fabric processing units employing more than 60,000 people, with around ₹3,000 crore of apparel export potential. The hemp-relevant factories sit at Sector 28, Sector 68 IMT and DLF Industrial Area Phase-1 and Phase-II. Hemp Foundation, founded 2019, is based at Plot 141, Sector 68 IMT and serves the B2B fashion and apparel industry. The NoName Company at Sector 49 is a private-label exporter working across organic cotton, linen, hemp, bamboo and Tencel. Saivana Garments at DLF Phase-1 runs 5,000 garments a day with GOTS, SEDEX and WRAP certification.
Yes, and several already do. Sawhney Global Creations in DLF Industrial Area Phase-II exports to France, Spain and Australia and holds a Masters of FLAX FIBRE™ certificate from Bureau Véritas for the manufacture and supply of readymade garments. The NoName Company exports worldwide with GOTS, ISO, BCI, GRS and Sedex, and its founder's background includes Walmart, Target and M&S programmes. Shibui works with both Indian and international brands. Export documentation and destination-market labelling are confirmed before production, and consignments move through the Inland Container Depot at Tughlakabad towards Jawaharlal Nehru Port or by air through Indira Gandhi International Airport.
This page is a market and company guide — it maps who the players are across brands, manufacturers and fabric suppliers, explains how the Indian market is structured and sized, and sets out the policy and certification context. The hemp clothing supplier pages in Faridabad, Delhi and India are procurement pages written for a buyer placing an order, covering MOQ, fit approval, production timelines and factory selection. Use this page to understand the landscape; use a supplier page when you are ready to buy.
Tell us whether you are looking for a brand, a manufacturer or a fabric supplier, and we will point you to the right conversation — including when the answer is that we are not the right company for what you need. Call +91-9891563757 or email sales@organicbuyingservices.com.