If you’re looking for the best textile manufacturers in India, top choices in 2026 include PRIMO IN, Arvind, Alok Industries, Trident, Welspun, and D’Decor. India exported about $36 billion of textiles and apparel in FY25 on home-grown cotton, with mills spanning denim, knits, furnishing fabric and the world’s deepest organic and recycled yarn base.
Top 12 Textile Manufacturers in India (2026)
The mills behind the garments: denim, knits, furnishing fabric, yarn and recycled fiber from the world’s sixth-largest textile exporter. PRIMO IN is featured first as sourcing partner.
PRIMO IN — Your Textile Sourcing Partner in India
PRIMO IN sources fabric and made-ups directly from Indian mills: denim from Ahmedabad, knits and yarns from the Coimbatore belt, synthetics from Surat, furnishing fabric from Mumbai’s majors. We verify mill certifications, benchmark per-metre quotes, and inspect greige, dyeing and finishing quality before dispatch.
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2. Arvind
Ahmedabad institution since 1931 and one of the world’s largest denim fabric makers, with over 40% sustainable cotton and massive water recycling, supplying denim-driven brands worldwide alongside shirting and knits.
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3. Alok Industries
Reliance-backed integrated mill weaving about 9 million metres of fabric a month across apparel and home textiles, with fiber innovations co-developed with Reliance and exports to 90+ countries.
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4. Trident
Vertically integrated from spinning with one of the world’s largest terry capacities plus 43 million metres of bed linen weaving, exporting to 100+ countries from Punjab and Madhya Pradesh.
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5. Welspun Living
About 80,000 tonnes of terry production and one of the world’s largest single-site home textile complexes at Anjar, with patented HygroCotton yarns and traceability systems.
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6. D’Decor Home Fabrics
The world’s number three curtain and upholstery fabric maker and India’s largest, weaving about 45 million metres a year across 10,000+ copyrighted designs for 65+ countries.
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7. Himatsingka Seide
One of the largest single-campus operations anywhere: 61 million metres of bedding fabric plus terry and drapery from Hassan, behind roughly 20 certifications including OEKO-TEX and BSCI.
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8. KPR Mill
Coimbatore vertical group spinning about 100,000 tonnes of yarn and 40,000 tonnes of knitted fabric a year, including GOTS combed yarns, on roughly 40% renewable energy.
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9. Indo Count Industries
About 153 million metres of bedding fabric capacity across Kolhapur and Vapi, GOTS, OEKO-TEX and BCI cited, with 98% of revenue from exports to US retail programs.
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10. Pratibha Syntex
Farm-linked organic specialist spinning 20,000 tonnes of yarn and 10,000 tonnes of fabric from its network of contract cotton farmers, under GOTS, Fairtrade and Cradle to Cradle Gold.
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11. Shiva Texyarn
The technical-textile name of the Coimbatore belt, focused on performance and engineered fabrics for activewear and specialty applications beyond commodity jersey.
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12. RG Fibers
Panipat recycled-yarn specialist established 2019, producing GRS-certified recycled cotton yarns with OEKO-TEX and ISO 9001, the upstream of India’s circular textile story.
India Textile Market Overview (2025)
India’s textile pyramid starts at the fiber: a top-two cotton grower, the world’s largest producer of organic cotton, and a synthetic base led by Surat, which weaves 25 to 30 million metres of man-made fabric a day, about 40% of the national output. Total textile and apparel exports reached roughly $36 billion in FY2024-25.
Each fabric family has an address. Denim runs through Ahmedabad, cotton yarn and knits through the Coimbatore-Tirupur belt, woolens through Ludhiana, furnishing fabric through Mumbai’s majors, home textile weaving through Gujarat, Punjab and Karnataka mega-campuses, and recycled yarn through Panipat, which processes about a million tonnes of textile waste a year.
Mill MOQs think in metres, not pieces: plan on roughly 1,000 metres per fabric and colour as a working floor at export mills, less on stocked qualities through converters, more on custom developments. Greige-to-finished lead times run three to eight weeks depending on dyeing and finishing.
Certification depth is the differentiator: the world’s largest count of GOTS-certified facilities, deep GRS recycled chains, OEKO-TEX as standard at the majors, and BCI cotton widely available. Ask for the test reports, shrinkage, colorfastness, GSM tolerance, with the quote, not after the shipment.
Since February 2026 Indian textiles enter the US at an 18% tariff, and the fabric-first buying pattern is India’s real advantage: booking your fabric at the mill before nominating the garment unit shortens chains and removes the middle margin most brands never see.
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