Custom Clothing Labels for a Small Brand

Custom clothing labels for a small brand come down to five things: a woven neck label with your name or logo, a care label with the fibre content and washing symbols, a hang tag, size stickers, and a branded, resealable polythene bag. We make them as part of your garment order, from 50 pieces per design, and apply them at the factory, so your stock arrives folded, bagged and ready to sell.

A quick word on the searches that bring people here. Type "custom labels", "make your own labels" or "label making" into a search engine and most results are sticker printers and desktop label makers. This guide is about brand labels for clothing: the ones sewn into a garment or attached to it, and the bag it ships in. Our labels and packaging service covers those, and only those.

What brand labels for clothing does a small brand need?

Every piece below carries your branding and nothing of ours. You do not need all of them on day one, but the neck label and the care label do the most work, and the bag is often the first thing an online customer sees.

Woven, printed or screen printed labels?

A woven label is made from thread, so the logo is part of the label and lasts the life of the garment. It is the usual choice for the main brand label at the neck. A printed label puts ink on a tape and carries small text more easily, which is why care information is often printed. A printed neck label, sometimes searched as a screen printed label or a tagless label, puts your brand mark straight inside the collar instead of a sewn tab.

Which is right depends on the garment and how the label should feel against the skin, and the quote confirms how a printed neck label is applied to your garment. The guide to woven, printed and tagless neck labels compares them in detail.

How to create your own labels: the artwork to send

When a factory talks about label making, it means turning your artwork into labels for one production run. You decide what the labels say and how they look; we make them and put them on the garments. Personalised labels are only as good as the files behind them, so send these with your enquiry:

1. 1Your logo or wordmark as vector artwork (AI, EPS, PDF or SVG), or 300 dpi at the size it will appear.
2. 2A simplified version for the neck label if your logo has fine lines or small text, because a label is small.
3. 3Pantone references for any brand colour that has to match.
4. 4Care label content: the fibre composition of each garment and the care symbols that apply.
5. 5Your size run, so size marks and size stickers match the sizes you are ordering.
6. 6Hang tag artwork for the front and back, and the artwork for the bag face.

We check every file before the proof and flag anything that will not reproduce cleanly at label size. Fibre content is part of what a clothing label must show when you sell to consumers, and UK clothing label rules sets out what is required and what is optional.

Personalised packaging: the branded polythene bag

For most small clothing brands, personalised packaging means the bag each garment ships in. Our custom printed polythene bags carry your logo and brand details on the bag face, close with a resealable zip seal that reopens for returns or storage, and have a punched hang hole for peg and rail display. Size stickers and custom labels go on the face, so a picker or shop assistant can find a size without opening anything.

Each bag is sized to the folded garment it holds, so a tee is not swimming in a hoodie bag, and the dimensions for every style are confirmed in your quote. That is what custom printed packaging looks like here: custom packaging bags with logo, made for clothing. Bags are the one item you can order on their own, at 50 bags per design, if you already have your garments.

What our labels and packaging service does not cover

Customised packaging means very different things to different businesses, so here is the line. The service covers the clothing labels and polythene bags above. It does not cover:

• Sticker labels for jars, bottles, candles, cosmetics or other products.
• Mailer boxes, mailing bags or paper carrier bags.
• Food or product packaging of any kind.
• Clothing labels on their own, without garments from us. Labels are made for a clothing run and applied at the factory.

Custom packaging for small business UK orders: cost and timing

Woven labels, hang tags and branded bags each add a little per piece, and your quote itemises every line so you can see the cost of each finishing touch before you commit. Bags are quoted per size and print. Production takes 10 to 15 working days from proof approval and the 50% deposit, with the balance due when the order is ready to ship.

For a first run, a sample of one or two garments costs £150 with worldwide shipping included, and the £150 comes off your bulk invoice. It is the best way to check the fabric, the fit and how your labels look and feel before the full order. Velocity Wear is a trading name of Spiderhunts Technologies Ltd, registered in England and Wales; the garments are made by our production team in Lahore and shipped tracked, charged on weight and dimensions, with duties at destination paid by the recipient.

How a labelled and bagged order comes together

1. 1Send the garment, quantity, size split and decoration, plus your label, hang tag and bag artwork.
2. 2Approve a digital mockup and an itemised quote.
3. 3Order a sample if you want to hold the labels in your hands first.
4. 4Production runs, and each garment is labelled, folded, bagged and size-stickered at the factory.
5. 5Your stock ships tracked, ready to go straight onto a shelf or into a parcel.

The labels and packaging are the finishing stage of private label clothing, where the whole garment is made and branded for you. For what to spend on first when the budget is tight, read hang tags and packaging: what is worth spending on.