About Portugal Textile
Creating fashion with care for the people and planet
We take pride in our commitment working with fashion brands and influencers and developing the highest quality clothing collections, always having in mind the most ethical practices.
Hello there!
It’s time to share our story.
During our years working in the textile industry, at Portugal Textile, our team acquired a huge know-how of the market, as well as a large network of manufacturers in Portugal.
Working in this industry since 1999 and helping international fashion brands placing their shoe productions at the right factories in Portugal, Paulo Silva, the founder identified a lack in the fashion market. So, in 2007 he created Portugal Textile, a sustainable clothing development and manufacturer agency that helps influencers & fashion brands producing in Portugal.
Paulo understood that the brands needed one place where they can find reliability, personalized attention, and quality. A service that could handle everything from the concept phase to the production, giving importance to every detail.
“Since day one Portugal Textile team is committed to look for what each fashion brand need and expect with high-quality standards giving attention to every detail. At our company we know that each brand we work with has its own story and people, and we are the right partner to help them turn their ideas into reality.”
Paulo Silva, CEO & Founder
In 1999 Paulo Silva, created Portugal Shoes, a business from Absolutarget group. The company’s headquarters are based in Felgueiras, a small town near Porto in the north of Portugal, worldwide recognized as the heart of top-quality shoemaking. There, we have been working on the “behind the scenes” for many well-known international fashion brands for more than 20 years.
Initially, the main goal of Paulo Silva was to help and support footwear fashion brands placing their productions in portuguese factories. However, quickly he understood that Portugal Shoes, would be much more than a manufacturer assistant.
Paulo Silva later recognized the importance of expanding the company’s offerings to include textile products and shoes in order to better serve our clients. For this reason, Paulo Silva created Portugal Textile in 2007, a specialized clothing manufacturing agency focused on helping you in all development and production process.
Since day one Portugal Textile team is committed to look for what each fashion brand need and expect with high-quality standards giving attention to every detail. At Portugal Textile we know that each brand we work with has its own story and people, and we are the right partner to help them turn their ideas into reality.
“Today the efforts are not only in assisting our clients to navigate the fashion industry, but also in changing the industry through sustainability and transparency following it transitions.”
Paulo Silva, CEO & Founder
Our values
By choosing Portugal Textile, you are making an active choice that respects people and our planet. Our people and partners believe in:
Trustiness
Our company believes in long term relationships, based on transparency, respect cooperation and knowledge sharing.
Sustainability & Transparency
We’ve set goals to reduce the impact we have on the planet and we’re always looking for new ways to get better. We follow all the UE guidelines and politics, such as fair-trade, ethical sourcing, health and safety, and reducing modern-slavery risks.
Integrity
We believe that honest people with strong moral principles can genarate amazing businesses.
Creativity & Innovation
Our team is always researching about new emergent trends, sustainable materials and new ways to provide effective solutions to our customers.
Meet the team
The people that bring your ideas to life.
FAQs
To begin working with us, you just need to contact us, sending your request about the project through this form or email. You send us your tech packs as well as the quantities per style color, price targets and deadline of the collection. Then, our commercial department will analyze the project to understand your vision, what the brand is looking for and how we can fulfill all your needs.
Our chain of suppliers MOQ is 300 pieces per style/150 pieces per color.
A Tech Pack is a framework for sharing your ideas in a structured way. Tech Packs are illustrated designs and specifications of your garment design. A Tech Pack is often required to obtain a quote from a manufacturer or agency, and to ensure that people understand how to make your design and its specifications.
You can submit your designs, tech packs, sketches, or image references to us via our contact form. Alternatively, you can also email us at info@portugaltextile.com.
Note: If you don’t have a tech pack, you can always send us physical samples from similar styles for what you want to produce.
Usually, the project timeline is 5-6 months (Development and Sampling process: 8 weeks; Production: 10-14 weeks).
We can source all type of materials for textile development, sustainable materials included, for examples: organic cotton, EcoVero, Tencel, cactus leather, grape leather, etc. See here some of the innovative options.
We can make any customized packaging based on the customer requirements, if you send us color, size, logo, materials, etc…
Yes! We have an internal team dedicated to the quality control of all the stages of the process. Every material is inspected before and after any procedure. Our quality control team will measure, check flaws, test quality, functionality, comfort, durability, and any other important detail for you.
We work with several transport companies with land, air, and sea shipments, in order to send the collection to any destination in the world. For each place we have references to provide you the best solutions.
We would love to hear about your project!
