Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd. has consolidated its corduroy range to three constructions and puts elastane in only one. MJ138, the 8-wale 340 GSM bottom-weight, carries 3% spandex; the fine and wide wale stay 100% cotton.
Zhuji, China – November 12, 2026 – Shaoxing Mujia Textile has consolidated its corduroy range to three constructions on its 30 Lenado air-jet looms, and put elastane in only one of them. MJ138, the mid wale (wale being the corduroy ridge) at about 8 wales per inch and 340 GSM (grams per square metre), carries 3% spandex. MJ128 at 12.8 wales per inch and 145 GSM, and MJ555 at 5.5 wales per inch and 290-300 GSM, are both 100% cotton.
The reason is the load the fabric carries in wear. Corduroy is a pile fabric, and pile has almost no recovery of its own. A 100% cotton corduroy trouser takes repeated compression at the seat and the knee, and the pile crushes rather than springs back; within a season the garment bags where it is sat on. Three percent spandex returns the structure without turning the cloth into a knit, and the pile still reads as pile.
“The elastane is in the trouser weight because the trouser is the garment that sits down,” says Emily Zhou, founder and director of Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd. “A dress does not need it and a jacket does not want it.”
The two pure-cotton constructions are specified for different garments. MJ128 at 145 GSM is a shirting weight: it drapes, adds little bulk at a seam, and is bought for shirt dresses and blouses. MJ555 at 290-300 GSM carries the pronounced ridge that trucker jackets and utility coats are built on, where the fabric has to hold a shape rather than recover one. Adding elastane to either would change the hand and complicate the finishing route without solving a problem the garment has.
Stretch also changes what the dyehouse has to control. Elastane degrades at a lower temperature than cotton, so a cotton-spandex quality runs a narrower heat-setting window than a 100% cotton one, and the finished lot is measured for recovery as well as for shade. All three constructions are sanforized – pre-shrunk by a mechanical process – to 3% or less in the warp and 2% or less in the weft after one AATCC 135 wash, the standard home-laundering test, with a production target of 2% and 1.5%.
Wale count is quoted as a number rather than a band name, because the bands are not standardised across the trade: one supplier’s fine wale is another’s mid. Each construction carries a stated wales-per-inch figure, a weight tolerance and a usable width on the quotation, and the same three figures are restated on the shipping documents, so the cloth that arrives can be measured against the cloth that was ordered.
Specifications for each construction are on the corduroy page, https://mujiatextile.com/corduroy.html.
About Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd.
Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd. is a woven cotton mill in Zhuji, Zhejiang, founded in 2012. It runs 30 Lenado air-jet looms in a 5,000 square metre plant and produces about five million metres of woven cotton a year. Standard terms are 300 m per colour, roughly 10 days after colour confirmation, FOB China port, with inspection under the company’s own 12-point mill standard and usable width and GSM restated on every shipping document. Company profile and full range at the Shaoxing Mujia Textile website, https://mujiatextile.com.
Media Contact:
Name: Emily Zhou
Company: Shaoxing Mujia Textile Co., Ltd.
Email: shaoxingtextile@coze.email
Phone: +86 151 5752 5252
Address: Zhuji, Zhejiang, China
Website: https://mujiatextile.com/corduroy.html
