Custom knit beanies for attraction and venue gift shops,
in your design

That depends on the yarn, how many colours your design carries, the cuff, the pom-pom, the patch and labels, how many you order of each design and colourway, and the freight and customs entry. We do not publish a beanie price. The quote gives each of those its own line, and the landed cost calculator on this site adds them up.

There are two routes. A US decorator takes a stock blank and embroiders or patches your logo onto it, which suits a few dozen hats you need soon. A knitter knits your design into the beanie itself, in your yarn colours, which suits a season's run planned ahead. We run the second route with factories in China, for buyers who order a season ahead.

Beanie is the usual word. The same hat is sold as a toque, a watch cap or a knit hat, cuffed or uncuffed, slouchy, short like a fisherman beanie, or with a pom-pom on top. We quote all of them knitted to order.

Yes. The patch is stitched to the cuff, in leather or faux leather, with your logo debossed or printed on it. If a patch was made for an earlier order, the factory can match it, and you see a photo of the new patch beside the old one before the run.

Either, or both. A knitted design is part of the fabric and suits bold shapes and blocks of colour. Embroidery suits a small logo with fine lines, and a leather patch carries a logo cleanly on any yarn colour. Plenty of gift shop beanies mix a knitted pattern with a patch on the cuff.

Yes. Send your artwork and colours, and the factory turns them into a knit chart for you to check before anything is knitted. Then it knits a sample in your yarns, and you sign off that sample, or photos of it, before the run starts.

The machines are set up for each design and colourway, so a knitted beanie suits a season's run rather than a handful of hats, and the quote states the quantity it is based on. If you need a few dozen by next week, a decorator working on stock blanks is a better fit.

Yes. Order them together, so the same yarn goes into both, and sign off the beanie and the scarf side by side. A scarf and a beanie can come out slightly different even in the same yarn, because they are knitted differently, which is why we ask for both in the sample.

Yes. Send your hang tag artwork and your own barcode numbers with the order, and the factory prints the tags and puts them on. The beanies are bagged or bundled the way your shop stocks them, and each carton is marked with the design, colourway and size.

Only as a children's product, which carries its own US requirements: a test report from a CPSC-accepted lab on the exact item, a Children's Product Certificate from whoever imports it, and tracking labels sewn in. Tell us before we quote. If there is no report, we do not go ahead. Adult sizes are what we quote unless you ask.

For a winter opening, ask for the quote in spring and sign off the design over the summer. The sample comes first, then the knitting, the trim, the packing and the sea crossing. Tell us the day the beanies have to be in your shop, and we work back to the date your design has to be signed off.

Yes. A plain knit scarf can carry the same patch as the beanies, sewn on all four sides near one end. Tell us whether the patch is genuine, split or faux leather. If you already have a patch from an earlier order, the factory can match it.

More than on a beanie. Under the FTC's labelling rules a scarf's sewn label gives the fibre content, the country of origin and the name or RN number of the company that imports or sells it, and a scarf also needs care instructions, which a hat does not. A wool scarf comes under the Wool Act as well. This is general information, and your broker or counsel can confirm what your goods need.