How to choice weight of towels?
General rule, the heavier the towel the more it will cost. Simple, the largest cost of the towel is the cotton or cotton and what ever fiber you mix with the cotton. This is about 60%-66% of the cost to make the towel. The remaining 34%-40% is the cost to manufacture the towel, electricity, labor, cost of money, labels, hang tags, and cartons to ship the towels in. As you have seen in the tour of the factory, there is not really very much labor to making the towel, machines do all of the work. The largest cost besides the cost of the raw materials is the cost of money and energy. Zero-twist terry cloth As you most likely know we always discuss the weight of the towels in either GSM (Grams per Square Meter) or pounds per dozen (in the US only). GSM is the weight of the terry fabric 1 meter x 1 meter expressed in Grams. The reason grams per square meter are used even in the U.S. is that they are a more accurate indicator of quality than pounds and makes it easy to compare one...