The New Industrial Township — NIT Faridabad — is the organised commercial heart of the city, laid out as numbered markets one through five rather than the long market street of the old city. The traders who work there mostly do not sell only to the customer who walks in off the road. A large share of them are re-suppliers: they buy from a source and pass the cloth onward to other shops, other towns, other markets. That is a different transaction from a retail sale, and it is the one this page is written for.
Quick answer: Compact Buying Services supplies a 26% Himalayan hemp / 74% Tencel™ blend from our Sector 35 office, a short distance from the NIT Markets, to traders and distributors working out of NIT Faridabad. Wholesale pricing is confirmed against the construction, the quantity and the lot, and repeat supply can be reserved against a single lot where quantity allows.
What separates a wholesale conversation from a retail one is not the price alone. A NIT trader needs to know that the second despatch will match the first, that the paperwork will satisfy a downstream buyer, and that the price per metre leaves room for their own margin when they resell. Those three questions decide whether a line is worth stocking; they come before any talk of drape or texture. The team behind this page runs independent AQL garment inspection across NCR, so talking about consistency across repeat orders is what we do naturally rather than as an afterthought.
This page is the belt-level overview for the whole of NIT Faridabad. Individual pages cover each sub-market where the trade is different — Market No. 1 for a trader's buying decisions, Market No. 2 for the hybrid retail-and-wholesale shop, Market No. 3 for the downstream customer and season planning, and NIT 3A for the trader running from a small premises. What sits on this page is what applies to the belt as a whole — the season cycle, credit, order sizing and switching suppliers.
Because the trader in NIT Market No. 1 is more likely to sell to another shop than to a walk-in customer, and a fabric that only sells at the counter is the wrong line for that trader to carry.
The NIT Markets are laid out as numbered blocks, and each one has built up its own speciality over the decades. Some are known for fabric, some for garments, some for hardware and general merchandise. A trader who works in one of them is not simply selling to the person on the other side of the counter. They are supplying shops in Faridabad's outer sectors, in the towns down Mathura Road, and sometimes further into NCR or into other states.
That means the questions a trader brings to a supplier are different from a shopkeeper's. A shopkeeper asks what the fabric feels like and whether it will move. A trader asks whether the same cloth can be supplied in six weeks at the same shade, whether the price leaves a margin after transport, and whether the paperwork will satisfy the shop two levels down the chain.
Hemp is a useful line for a trader for exactly the reason it is a difficult one: it needs a conversation. A shop that already stocks cotton has no need for a second cotton. A trader who can supply hemp, with the fibre story and the documentation to back it up, has something the shop down the road cannot easily copy.
The five NIT markets are not five alternatives — they are one distribution system, and a trader working from any of them usually supplies shops working in the others.
A trader who supplies a tailoring unit two streets from Market No. 3 and a boutique off Market No. 5 is not working in a market — they are working a belt. That distinction matters because most of the operational questions a trader asks are belt-level questions rather than market-level ones. The combined delivery, the swing stock between shops, the decision to hold one construction and drop another — none of those sit neatly inside a single market address.
Three consequences follow for the way a wholesale line runs across the belt.
The practical implication is that a NIT trader's reservation should be sized to the whole belt they supply, not to the market they work from. Tell us at enquiry how many downstream shops you cover and roughly what each one buys, and the reservation can be sized against the belt rather than against a single counter. That is the whole point of the belt as a system — the same cloth, the same lot, moving across five markets rather than being bought five times.
Reserve the total you expect to move across a season, and we hold it against a single lot — where quantity allows, and with the split flagged before production when it does not.
The hardest part of a wholesale fabric line is not the first order. It is the second, and the third, and the one after that — each one landing three months after the previous, and each one needing to match the shop window, the sample you kept, and the swatch the downstream buyer still has in a drawer. Get that wrong once and the trader has to explain to a shop they have supplied for years why the cloth on this month's delivery is not quite the same as the last.
So we plan for the repeat before the first order. Tell us the volume you expect to move across a season, not just the first despatch. We hold that total against a single lot where the quantity makes it possible, and we reserve the lot so the second and third despatches come from the same production. That reservation is what keeps the shade steady across the year, and it is worth planning for even if the second despatch is still weeks away.
Where the total quantity cannot come from one lot — because it is too large, or because a particular construction has a limited run — we say so before the first order goes into production. You then know in advance that a shade split is coming, and roughly how the two batches will divide. That is not a promise of perfect consistency. It is a promise that you will not be surprised, which is what a trader actually needs.
Two further points. First, if you are re-supplying other shops, tell us the number of shops and the pieces they are likely to need, because the phase pattern of your own despatches often depends on that downstream count rather than on the total metres. Second, if you stock other lines alongside hemp — organic cotton, banana fabric, nettle, natural dyes — say so at enquiry. Multiple lines can often be consolidated into one consignment, which saves a trip, a delivery charge and a separate invoice.
Most NIT trade moves in waves — festive in October and November, wedding from November into February, summer lighter, school in April, monsoon slowest — and a season is planned around those waves, not against them.
A trader's calendar in NIT Faridabad is not the retail calendar of the counter. It runs on the rhythm of downstream shops, which in turn runs on the rhythm of their customers. That rhythm is well known in the belt even if it is rarely written down, and planning a season well means knowing where the peaks and the troughs sit before you order.
The practical mistake a NIT trader most often makes is planning a season without reference to the next one. The trader who holds festive stock into December and cannot start the wedding season cleanly has a cash-flow problem, not a stock problem, and it is easier to avoid at the ordering stage than to fix later. Our suggestion for the belt is the same as for any trader — order narrow into the season, top up mid-season from the reservation, tail off at the end rather than carry over, and start the next season's planning from a clean position rather than a warehouse full of last season's cloth.
The right price for a NIT trader is one that leaves a working margin after transport and holding — not the lowest price per metre, which is usually the one that produces returns and lost repeat orders.
Fabric pricing works differently in a wholesale market than it does in a shop. A shop adds a markup on what it paid and lets the customer decide. A trader has to plan the whole chain: what they pay, what they charge the next shop, what that shop charges the customer, and what is left at each step after transport, waste, holding and the occasional return. Chasing the cheapest source usually means paying for it three months later when a shade mismatch forces a discount.
We quote against three things — the construction, the quantity and the lot — and we do not put a public rate on the page because a rate for a trader buying across a season is not the same as a rate for a single despatch. Tell us all three, and we will give you a specific figure you can price against. If the resulting price does not work for your downstream margin, we would rather say so than pretend the cloth can be sold cheaper than it can.
There is a further cost a trader should factor in, and it is often left out. A natural-fibre line needs the occasional customer question answered — is it scratchy, will it shrink, how does it clean. Those questions are not a problem if the trader already knows the answer. They become one if the fabric arrived without any supporting note. So we supply a written specification with every consignment, so the shop can answer those questions on the spot rather than forwarding them to the trader and back.
Payment terms depend on the order, the lot reservation and the relationship, and they are agreed in writing before the order is placed rather than discovered on the invoice.
A trader asking about credit terms is asking a reasonable question, and it deserves a specific answer rather than a vague one. But the answer depends on more than the price — it depends on what kind of order is being placed and what relationship already exists.
Three things typically move the terms. The order itself. A first order on a new construction usually runs on a different basis from a repeat of a construction already supplied. The reservation. A trader reserving a full season against one lot is committing more than a trader placing a single despatch, and the terms usually reflect that. The relationship. A trader who has been supplied across several seasons and paid to terms is a different counterparty from one placing a first order, and pretending otherwise would be naive.
What we do commit to, regardless of terms, is that they are agreed in writing before the order goes into production. That is not a formality. A trader who has been told terms verbally and then finds a different number on the invoice is not going to trust the next order, and a wholesale line built on uncertain payment terms does not last. So we ask, at enquiry, what terms the trader needs, and we answer specifically.
Two pieces of advice for the trader on the other side of this. First, ask specifically. "What terms do you offer?" is a vague question that gets a vague answer. "For a first order of this construction at this quantity, would you take X% on order and the balance on despatch?" is a specific question that gets a specific answer. Second, never promise a date you cannot hold. If a trader tells us they will pay on the fifteenth and the fifteenth is a problem, they should tell us before the fifteenth, not after. A supplier who is told early can usually work with it. A supplier who is told late remembers.
Buy narrow, not deep — a first order should be the smallest quantity that lets you test the cloth at your actual customers, not a season's worth you have not yet moved.
The single most common mistake on a new wholesale line is buying a season's worth of cloth before a single downstream shop has confirmed they want it. The second most common is the reverse — buying so little that a shop cannot be supplied when they do come back, and losing them to a supplier who can. Sizing a first order is about finding the middle, and the middle is smaller than most traders assume on day one.
Three things a first order should be sized against.
The reservation is what makes this possible. A first order can be small — small enough to test at real customers — and the season's reservation can still be in place against the same lot. The reservation does not commit you to taking the full quantity at once; it commits the lot to you so the second order, if it happens, comes from the same cloth. That is the whole point of reserving against a season rather than against a single despatch, and it is why a first order can safely be sized to test rather than to bet.
The reservation figure itself is usually a calculation rather than a guess. Take the number of downstream shops you are actively supplying, multiply by the pieces each one buys per month, multiply by the length of the season in months, and add a small buffer — typically around 20% — for the shops that come back faster than expected. If you are unsure of any of those three numbers, tell us the ones you do know and we will help work out a reservation size that is defensible rather than optimistic.
A 26% Himalayan hemp and 74% Tencel™ lyocell blend, woven from hemp grown above 1,800 metres; construction and weight confirmed against your application before order.
The cloth is a fixed 26% hemp, 74% Tencel™ blend. The hemp supplies abrasion resistance and the texture that gives the fabric its distinct character, and the Tencel™ supplies drape and softness so the cloth reads as a fine apparel fabric rather than a utility hemp. The fibre is grown above 1,800 metres in the Himalayan foothills, where the slower growth cycle produces a longer, finer bast fibre than lowland commercial hemp, which is what allows a 26% share to feel as smooth as it does.
The full hemp and Tencel™ page covers blend behaviour, dye options and drape in depth. What matters for a wholesale trader is which construction best matches the shops you supply. Tell us the customer type, the garment or product they make, and the price band they sell in, and we will recommend the construction that fits that. If the blend is the wrong fit for a particular downstream customer, we will say so rather than sell you a line that will come back as a return.
| Fibre blend | 26% Himalayan hemp, 74% Tencel™ lyocell |
|---|---|
| Fibre origin | Himalayan foothills, above 1,800 metres |
| Construction | Confirmed against the downstream application at enquiry |
| Width and weight | Confirmed per lot at enquiry |
| Colour options | Natural and undyed; dyed to order on request |
| Wholesale supply | Repeat orders reserved against a single lot where quantity allows |
| Lot split policy | Flagged before production, with batch sizes confirmed in writing |
| Samples | Free swatches; courier charges payable by the recipient |
| Delivery | NIT Markets 1–5 and 3A, plus the surrounding commercial belt; wider Faridabad and NCR |
Specification last reviewed: 21 October 2026.
Ask any supplier the same five questions — lot reservation, downstream paperwork, price basis, consistency policy and return terms — and judge the answers before you judge the cloth.
Whether you buy this hemp blend or another cloth for NIT wholesale, these five questions separate a supplier who understands the distribution chain from one who only sells by the metre. Ask all of them at the enquiry stage and compare the answers, not only the price per metre.
| Question to ask any supplier | What a good answer sounds like |
|---|---|
| "Can you reserve the season's total in one lot?" | A clear yes or no, plus what happens if the answer is no and how the split will be managed. |
| "What paperwork will travel with the goods?" | The commercial papers and the certification documents applicable to the lot, named clearly, not described vaguely. |
| "How is the price quoted — per metre, per season, per lot?" | A specific basis with the variables named, so the trader can model it against their own margin. |
| "What is your shade consistency policy across despatches?" | A concrete policy with a testing method and a split-flagging commitment, not a claim of perfect consistency. |
| "What is the return position if a downstream shop rejects the cloth?" | A specific and honest answer, because returns happen, and the terms are better agreed before the first despatch than after the third. |
We answer all five against this blend at the enquiry stage. On a wholesale line, a wrong fabric is a much larger mistake than a slightly higher price on the right one, and honesty at the front of the conversation is what makes repeat supply possible.
Every consignment includes a written care note so the shop can answer customer questions on the spot — wash at 30°C with soapnut or mild soap, line dry in shade, iron medium while damp, never bleach.
The care note is a small thing that earns a trader repeat business. Without it, a customer rings the shop three weeks later to ask whether the cloth is machine-washable, the shop rings the trader, the trader rings us, and by the time the answer comes back the customer has bought from somewhere else. With it, the shop answers the question in ten seconds and the customer buys.
The standard note covers the essentials: gentle wash at 30°C using a soapnut solution or a mild natural soap, line dry in shade rather than tumble drying, iron on medium heat while the cloth is still slightly damp, and never bleach. Hemp is naturally stain-resistant, so heavy detergent is not required and can shorten the cloth's life.
On limits, plainly: at 26% the hemp still gives the cloth a texture that a pure cotton will not have, and that texture is the point rather than a defect. It softens with washing rather than arriving soft. Natural shade can vary slightly between lots, and the correct answer for a downstream customer who needs a perfectly uniform, completely smooth cloth is that cotton is the simpler choice. Saying so at the counter keeps the trader's reputation intact even when the cloth is not the right answer for that one customer.
Every lot is checked against the approved swatch for blend, construction, shade and surface, with photographs sent before dispatch and the shade check run roll to roll.
This page is prepared by the Compact Buying Services team at Sector 35, Faridabad, which also provides independent AQL garment inspection across Delhi NCR.
Switch at the start of a season, not mid-season, sample the new cloth before you commit, and keep your own record — the approved swatch, the lot numbers and the specification sheet.
Most traders change suppliers at some point. The reason is usually one of three — price, quality or delivery — and none of those is illegitimate. What separates a trader who switches well from one who loses a season in the process is the timing and the paperwork, not the decision itself.
Three things to do before switching.
On timing, the honest advice is the same as for anything else in the belt — switch at the boundary between seasons, not in the middle of one. A switch during a season exposes the trader to a shade change while their downstream shops are already committed, which is the worst of both worlds. A switch between seasons gives the new cloth time to be tested at real customers before the next season's demand arrives. If the current supplier is a genuine problem, do not wait — but understand that switching mid-season is a decision with real cost, not a cost-free improvement.
One last point. Before switching, ask whether the issue can be fixed rather than replaced. A delivery problem is often an access problem, not a supplier problem. A quality issue is often a specific lot, not a general line. A price issue is often a question of what was being bought, not of what it cost. A conversation is usually cheaper than a switch, and the two are not in conflict — a supplier who can fix the problem is one worth keeping.
Our Sector 35 office is a short distance from all five NIT Markets, so a trader can collect swatches, view a consignment or receive a delivery the same week.
NIT Faridabad is the New Industrial Township, laid out in the planned style with numbered markets rather than a single market street. NIT Market No. 1 through No. 5 are each a distinct commercial cluster, and the surrounding residential sectors — the low-numbered NIT sectors and the colonies around them — hold the traders and shops that supply much of the city beyond the old belt. A trader working in one of these markets does not just serve the customers in front of them; a large share of their business is supplying other shops and other towns further out.
Because the office sits at Sector 35, a trader from any of the NIT Markets can come and handle the cloth in person during office hours, Monday to Saturday, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, or have a swatch pack couriered. For confirmed wholesale orders, delivery is arranged against the market address and the timing that suits the despatch, and any access restriction that applies at the market during peak hours is planned around rather than assumed.
Deliveries run to the NIT Markets 1, 2, 3, 3A, 4 and 5, the surrounding NIT residential blocks and colonies, and to the rest of Faridabad, including Old Faridabad, New Faridabad, Greater Faridabad, Ballabhgarh and the outer sectors. Buyers in Gurugram, Delhi, Noida and the wider NCR are quoted on the same basis, and sample packs are dispatched worldwide.
For export cargo, shipments from Faridabad are commonly routed through the Inland Container Depot at Tughlakabad in Delhi towards Jawaharlal Nehru Port, while Indira Gandhi International Airport handles air freight and courier samples.
A full list of every Faridabad area we supply is on the areas we serve page.
If your shop is somewhere in the NIT belt not mentioned above, tell us the address. The NIT area is compact and well connected, so very little falls outside a normal delivery run.
Yes. NIT traders and distributors are supplied on a wholesale basis from our Sector 35 office, which is a short distance from the NIT Markets. Wholesale pricing is confirmed against the construction, quantity and the lot you are buying, so send those three things with your enquiry and we will respond with a specific figure rather than a general rate.
They function as a system rather than as five alternatives. Each market has built up its own cluster of businesses over the decades, and a trader working out of one often supplies shops working in the others — a Market No. 2 distributor might be supplying a tailoring unit two streets from Market No. 3 and a boutique off Market No. 5. That means combined despatches across the belt usually make sense, and it is why the delivery questions for the belt are better asked once than market by market.
Where the quantity allows, yes. Reserve the total you expect to move across a season and we will hold it against a single lot, so the second despatch matches the first. If the total cannot come from one lot, we tell you before you commit rather than after, so you know in advance that a shade split is coming and can plan around it.
Most NIT trade moves in waves through the year. The festive season in October and November is the first strong peak, followed by the wedding season from November into February. Summer from March is lighter and slower. The school year starting in April puts demand on kurtas and lighter cottons. The monsoon months from July are usually the slowest, and the godown is where the work happens then. Planning a season means ordering before each peak and not carrying stock past it.
There is no single wholesale threshold because the right figure depends on the construction and the lot. Tell us the volume you expect to move over a season rather than a single order, and we will quote against that. A trader in NIT Market No. 1 and one in Market No. 5 often buy very differently, and the price should reflect how you actually buy.
Buy narrow, not deep. A first order should be the smallest quantity that lets you test the cloth at your actual customers, usually one or two constructions in the colours you are confident of. Season totals and repeat stock come after you have watched the counter move the cloth for a month. A trader who buys a season's worth on the first order is betting on demand that has not appeared yet, and that is the mistake most often made on a new line.
Terms depend on the order, the lot reservation and the relationship, so there is no single policy we publish. A first order is usually quoted on one basis and a repeat on another. What we can promise is that terms are confirmed in writing before the order is placed, so both sides know the position. Tell us what you need at the enquiry stage and we will be specific about what is possible rather than evasive.
Yes, but the timing matters more than the switch itself. Move at the start of a season rather than mid-season, sample the new cloth before you commit, and confirm the lot reservation so you are not exposed to a shade change during the changeover. What you should keep from the old supplier is your own record — the approved swatch, the lot numbers you have already bought, and the specification sheet. Those are the reference points for comparing the new cloth against what your customers already know.
Yes. If you are re-supplying other shops in Faridabad, Gurugram or elsewhere in NCR, we treat you as a distributor and quote accordingly. Tell us the downstream customer size and the pieces they are likely to need, and the quantity and delivery can be planned around that, rather than around a single retail counter.
The goods travel with the usual commercial paperwork for a wholesale consignment, and the certification documents available for the lot, such as GOTS and OEKO-TEX 100 where applicable, are shared on request. Confirm what your downstream buyers need before the order is placed, so the documents travel with the goods rather than arriving late.
Yes. Swatches are free of cost and there is no minimum to request them. A trader can come to the Sector 35 office and handle the cloth in person during office hours, Monday to Saturday, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, or have a swatch pack couriered. Wholesale decisions should not be made from a photograph, and we do not expect you to.
By telling you in advance. Where a single lot cannot cover the total quantity, the split is flagged before production so you know the sizes of the two batches and can plan how the second batch is used. Natural fibre shade varies between lots, and the correct place to manage that is at the order stage, not when the second despatch reaches the shop.
Yes. If you are stocking hemp alongside organic cotton, banana fabric, nettle or natural dyes, tell us the full mix at enquiry and we will confirm what can be consolidated into a single consignment. A trader stocking several lines saves a trip, a delivery charge and a separate invoice by combining them at the source.
Yes. Deliveries run to NIT Markets 1, 2, 3, 3A, 4 and 5 and the surrounding commercial and residential blocks, as well as to the rest of Faridabad and the wider NCR. Delivery is confirmed order by order against the shop address, the quantity and any access requirement the market imposes during peak hours.
This page covers the belt as a whole — how the five markets relate, the seasonal cycle the trade runs on, how payment and credit usually work, how to size a first order and how to switch suppliers cleanly. Each of the sub-market pages is written for a specific address: Market No. 1 for the trader's buying decisions, Market No. 2 for the hybrid retail-and-wholesale trader, Market No. 3 for the downstream customer and season planning, and NIT 3A for the trader running from a small premises. Start here for the overview; use a sub-market page when the question is specific to that address.
Both pages are supplied from the same Sector 35 office and describe the same hemp blend. The Old Faridabad page is written for shops selling to walk-in customers, where the questions are about trial orders and how to describe the fabric across a counter. This page is written for traders and distributors in NIT, where the questions are about wholesale quantities, repeat supply, lot consistency across multiple despatches and how to price the cloth when reselling it onward.