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Bath Linen & Terry Towel Manufacturer
Bath, hand and face towels, bath mats, waffle bathrobes, slippers and pool or spa towels: woven, sheared, hemmed and labelled in Islamabad.
We call the category bath linen, because that is how a housekeeping department buys it: the towel, the mat, the robe and the slipper as one specification. You may know it as towelling. Either way, the conversation starts with GSM, construction and border, and this page gives you all three before you send an enquiry.
The range
Towels | Absorbency by Design
Woven for efficient moisture absorption and quick drying, Paragon towels balance plush comfort with structural strength for repeated wash cycles.
- Bath towels and bath sheets: the anchor of the specification. Everything else in the room is usually matched to it.
- Hand towels and face towels: matched to the bath towel in colour and border, and typically specified a little lighter in GSM.
- Bath mats: heavier, denser construction with a woven border, built to take a wet foot and go straight into the laundry.
- Waffle bathrobes: the light, fast-drying robe most properties hang in the wardrobe. Collar, belt and pocket detail to your drawing.
- Slippers: open or closed toe, supplied to match the robe.
- Pool and spa towels: sized for a lounger, specified for heavy laundering and frequent handling rather than for maximum loft.
Complete hospitality sets, including bed linen, are on the hotel linen page. Ward and patient towelling is on the hospital linen page.
Specify by weight
The GSM ladder
GSM is grams per square metre: the weight of the finished cloth, and the single most useful number in a towel enquiry. It is a proxy for how much pile is in the towel, which drives how much water it holds, how long it takes to dry and how it feels in the hand. The ladder below is where the trade specifies. It is not a claim about a particular Paragon article; it is the map you point at.
| Application | GSM Typical industry range | What it buys you |
|---|---|---|
| Gym & sports | 300-380 | Light and fast-drying. High turnover, low storage volume, quick through the laundry. |
| Pool & economy | 400-450 | Enough body for poolside use without the drying time of a hotel towel. |
| Standard hotel | 500-550 | The working guest-room specification. Feels substantial, still dries overnight. |
| Premium hotel | 580-650 | Visibly denser pile. Reads as an upgrade on the rail and in the hand. |
| Spa | 650-700 | Maximum loft and absorbency, where drying time and laundry cost matter least. |
| Bath mats | 800+ | Dense and heavy so it stays put underfoot and takes standing water. |
Typical industry range. Exact specification confirmed at sampling. Hand towels and washcloths are typically specified 100-150 GSM below the matched bath towel, so a 550 GSM bath towel usually pairs with a lighter hand towel rather than an identical one.
Higher GSM is not automatically better. A heavier towel holds more water, so it takes longer to dry, occupies more shelf and costs more to launder. Choose the rung that matches the room and the laundry that services it, then hold it across every re-order. The full GSM guide
Terry vocabulary
The words on a towel specification
Seven terms cover almost every towel enquiry we receive. Use them in your brief and the sample you get back will be much closer to the towel in your head.
Dobby border
The narrow flat-woven band across each end of the towel, where the pile stops and the ground weave shows through. It is produced on a dobby mechanism, which limits it to simple geometry: plain bands, fine stripes, small repeats. The dobby border is the quiet, hard-wearing default: it presses flat, folds square and hides wear. The towels in the photograph above carry a triple dobby.
Cam border
A wider, more ornate flat-woven design in the same position. More width and more pattern than a dobby allows: scrolls, a Greek key, blocks, or a woven property name. It is the dressier towel, and it carries branding into the cloth itself rather than onto a printed label.
Loop pile and double-loop terry
Terry is woven with a third set of warp yarns held slack, so they rise off the ground weave as loops. Loop pile means loops raised on both faces of the towel. Double-loop terry raises two loops at each point instead of one, giving more surface area to hold water and a fuller hand at the same footprint. The loop is the towel: everything else on this list is about protecting it.
Two-ply yarn
Two singles twisted together before weaving. A two-ply pile is stronger, sheds less and holds its loop shape through repeated laundering far better than a single of the same weight. This is why institutional and hotel towelling is usually specified two-ply even when a single would hit the same GSM more cheaply.
Ring-spun
Yarn spun by twisting and thinning the fibres into a fine, continuous strand. Ring-spun pile is softer, smoother and more uniform than open-end yarn, and it is the usual starting point for hotel and spa towelling.
Combed
A preparation step before spinning: the short fibres are combed out and the rest are laid parallel. Combed cotton produces a cleaner yarn with fewer loose fibre ends, so the towel lints less in its first cycles and the pile stays even.
Zero-twist, and the trade-off
Pile yarn spun with almost no twist, usually held together during weaving by a binder that washes out. Because the fibres are never tightened, they open fully against the skin: zero-twist is the softest and most absorbent hand you can specify.
The honest trade-off is durability. A zero-twist towel is less durable than the same towel woven in a higher-twist yarn. It loses loops sooner, it sheds more early on, and it does not stand up to an industrial laundry the way a two-ply, higher-twist towel does. Specify zero-twist for spa and retail, where the towel is handled gently and replaced often, and specify twist for a housekeeping cupboard.
Robes, mats & slippers
Bathrobe weights
A robe is specified the same way a towel is, by weight and by construction, but the three constructions sit in different bands, and they behave differently on the hook.
- Waffle
- 280-450 GSM Typical industry range
- Terry
- 350-600 GSM Typical industry range
- Velour
- 400-550 GSM Typical industry range
Typical industry range. Exact specification confirmed at sampling.
Choosing between them
Waffle is light, packs flat and dries fastest, which is why most hotels hang it. Terry is the spa and poolside robe: heavier, warmer, more absorbent straight out of the water. Velour is terry with the loops sheared on the face: it looks and feels like a plush fabric, and it is the dressiest of the three, though the sheared face absorbs less than an unsheared loop.
Bath mats
A mat is not a towel cut down. It sits at the top of the GSM ladder, with a denser ground and a wide woven border, because it has to hold standing water, stay flat underfoot and go through the same laundry cycle as everything else in the room. Foot motifs and Greek-key jacquard borders are both woven in, not printed on.
Specification
Bath linen specification
Everything a quotation needs, in the order we will ask for it. Rows we have no documented figure for say so rather than guessing, the field stays on the page so you know it is part of the conversation.
Branding is the last decision and the easiest one to get wrong. Tell us whether you want a woven satin label or a printed care label, where it sits and what it has to say, and send the artwork with your enquiry.
| Composition | Cotton. We begin by selecting organic cotton, chosen for strength, softness and absorbency. Ring-spun or combed yarn and the pile ply are fixed on your approved sample. |
|---|---|
| Construction | Loop pile and double-loop terry, waffle, ribbed, chevron and jacquard, with dobby or cam borders. |
| GSM | 300-380 gym · 400-450 pool · 500-550 standard hotel · 580-650 premium · 650-700 spa · 800+ bath mats Typical industry range |
| Bathrobe GSM | Waffle 280-450 · terry 350-600 · velour 400-550 Typical industry range |
| Sizes | Standard institutional sizes. Tell us the sizes you need. On request |
| Colours | White and cream from stock. Other shades matched to a Pantone reference on order. |
| Finish & care | Recommended care for this fabric type: wash before first use to open the pile; wash with like colours; skip fabric softener, which coats the loops and works against absorbency; tumble dry low and shake out to lift the pile; avoid chlorine bleach on coloured borders. |
| Packing | Per piece, per set or bulk carton: polybag, paper band, hang tag or printed
insert, with shipping marks to your instruction. Carton counts and cube. On request |
| Customisation | Size · colour to a Pantone reference · weave · dobby or cam border · woven or printed label · packing. |
Typical industry range, exact specification confirmed at sampling.
Connect now for orders
Give us the rung, the border and the sizes
Tell us which rung of the GSM ladder you are on, whether you want a dobby or a cam border, the sizes in your set and the quantity. If you are re-supplying an existing specification, send us a towel: matching a physical sample is faster and more accurate than matching a description.
- Payment terms: 30% advance, 70% before pick-up.
- Size, colour, weave, border, woven or printed label and packing are all to order.
- No minimum-order quantity or lead time in days is published. Both are confirmed with your quote.
- Published ranges are typical industry ranges; your exact specification is confirmed at sampling.
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