Bag manufacturer in Bangladesh: totes and promotional bags
Cut-and-sew bags in cotton, canvas, jute and polyester, made in the same factories as the garments on this site and often shipped with them: totes, drawstrings, pouches, packing bags and promotional bags, printed or embroidered with your brand.
- Typical fabric
- Totes, drawstrings, pouches
- Styles
- 7 ranges
- Finishes
- 5 options
Styles we make
- Cotton and canvas tote bags
- Drawstring and gym sacks
- Zipped pouches and wash bags
- Dust bags and garment bags
- Promotional and event bags
- Jute and jute–cotton shoppers
- Foldable polyester shoppers
Fabrics and weights
- Cotton sheeting and light canvas 4–6 oz
- Cotton canvas 8–10 oz
- Canvas and duck 12 oz
- Heavy duck 14 oz+, waxed or coated
- Woven polyester 210D–600D
- Jute and jute–cotton, laminated or plain
Decoration and finishing
- Screen and digital printing
- Embroidered logos
- Webbing, rope or self-fabric handles
- Base and side gussets
- Zips, magnetic snaps and drawstrings
Specifying bags.
The detail below is what turns a sketch into a garment that arrives as you expected. Send what you have and we fill the gaps with you before sampling.
Put this in your tech pack
- Bag type and finished dimensions: width, height, base depth, handle length and drop
- Fabric: fibre, weight in ounces or GSM, natural or dyed, with certificate if organic or recycled
- Handle type and attachment: top-seam, boxed and cross-stitched, or riveted
- Gussets, closure and pockets with dimensions and positions
- Artwork in vector format with Pantone references, placed on a flat drawing
- Label content for your market, and any packaging rule the bag must meet
- Packing: folded flat in polybags, bundled, or packed with a clothing order
What moves the price
- Fabric weight and whether it is natural or dyed, since a dyed canvas is a dye lot
- Handle and attachment: webbing and boxed stitching add material and operations
- Gussets, zips and pockets, each an operation
- Print method and colours: screens per colour, or digital at a higher cost per bag
- Quantity, because screen set-up spreads over the run
What goes wrong with bags, and how we stop it.
Every category fails in its own way. These are the problems we plan against on this product, and the checks that catch them before your goods ship.
| Risk | How we prevent it |
|---|---|
| Handles tearing away under load | Attachment is specified as boxed and cross-stitched or riveted for carrying bags, and a load test is done on the pre-production sample. |
| Print cracking or offsetting on natural canvas | Ink and cure are matched to the fabric, the strike-off is washed and folded before approval, and bags are packed only when fully cured. |
| Bags not matching the garment order’s colour | Artwork approvals for the bag and the garments run against one colour standard when they belong to one order. |
| Wrong dimensions after washing or shrinkage | Shrinkage is tested on the bulk fabric and the pattern adjusted, so finished bags measure to the specification. |
The bags we make, and the ones we do not
This page covers cut-and-sew bags in cotton, canvas and polyester: tote bags, drawstring and gym bags, zipped pouches, packing and garment bags, and promotional bags printed with a brand or an event. They are made in the same cut-and-sew factories as the garments on this site, often alongside a clothing order, which is why a brand can ship its tees and its totes together. We do not make luggage, leather goods or moulded bags, which are different industries with different factories, and we say so rather than quote them.
Fabric weights, and what each suits
Canvas is specified by weight in ounces per square yard, and the weight decides how the bag feels, what it carries and what it costs. Lighter fabrics fold flat and print cheaply; heavier ones stand up and last for years.
| Weight | Fabric | Suits |
|---|---|---|
| 4–6 oz | Cotton sheeting and light canvas | Promotional and event totes, dust bags, packing bags |
| 8–10 oz | Cotton canvas | Everyday shopping totes, drawstring bags, pouches |
| 12 oz | Canvas and duck | Structured totes with gussets, market bags |
| 14 oz and above | Heavy duck, often waxed or coated | Tool and work bags, bags meant to last for years |
| Polyester 210D–600D | Woven polyester, sometimes coated | Gym sacks, foldable shoppers, promotional drawstrings |
| Jute and jute–cotton | Laminated or unlaminated | Grocery and gift bags with a natural look |
Handles, gussets, closures and pockets
A tote is a simple garment with four decisions that change its price and its life. Handles are self-fabric, webbing or rope, in short (hand) or long (shoulder) lengths, and the attachment, sewn into the top seam, boxed and cross-stitched, or riveted, is where a bag fails first under load. A base gusset lets the bag stand and carry boxes; side gussets add volume; no gusset makes a flat bag that prints cheapest. Closures are none, a magnetic snap, a zip along the top, or a drawstring. Pockets, inside or outside, add operations and are quoted per pocket. The tech pack states each of these with a dimension.
- Handle: self-fabric, cotton webbing or rope; length in centimetres; drop measured from the top edge
- Attachment: top-seam, boxed and cross-stitched (the strongest), or riveted
- Gussets: none, base only, or base and sides, with dimensions
- Closure: open, magnetic snap, zip, or drawstring with cord lock
- Pockets: inside or outside, with size and position
- Base: plain, reinforced with a second layer, or a removable board
Printing and embroidery on bags
Flat, unlined and made of natural fibre, a cotton bag prints well by most methods. Screen printing is the standard for one to four colour logos and gives the lowest cost per bag at volume, with a screen charge per colour. Digital and direct-to-garment printing handle full-colour artwork with no screens and suit small runs and photographic designs. Embroidery gives a raised, premium logo on heavier canvas and is priced by stitch count. Heat transfers suit polyester bags. The print area is limited by the handle attachment and the gusset, so the artwork is placed on a flat drawing at the sampling stage and a strike-off on the actual bag is approved before bulk.
Cotton bags and the EU packaging and single-use rules
Cotton bags are ordered by brands and retailers largely because of rules that restrict plastic carrier bags. In the EU, Directive (EU) 2015/720 required member states to cut consumption of lightweight plastic carrier bags to no more than 40 per person per year by the end of 2025, by charges, targets or bans; Directive (EU) 2019/904 on single-use plastics added producer responsibility for very lightweight plastic bags; and the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (EU) 2025/40 applies from 12 August 2026 with recyclability and labelling requirements for packaging placed on the EU market. Whether a given bag counts as packaging or as a product depends on how it is sold, and that is a question for your compliance adviser, not for a factory; what we can do is make the bag to the specification the rule requires, label it with the fibre content and origin your market asks for, and supply the transaction certificate where you claim organic or recycled cotton.
Bags alongside a clothing order
A bag is often a part of a clothing brand’s order rather than a product line: a dust bag per garment, a branded tote as the retail bag, or merchandise for a launch. Because the bags are made in the same kind of factory, they can be produced and shipped with the garments under one order and one set of documents, and the artwork approvals run together. Where a bag needs a specialist, for example a heavy waxed canvas or a laminated jute, we place it separately and name the factory as we do for any order.
Small runs and minimums
Bags carry the same logic as garments: the fabric sets the minimum, and a plain cotton canvas in a natural colour has a low one because mills run it continuously, while a dyed canvas in your colour needs a dye lot. Our confirmed minimum applies to t-shirts; bags are quoted per style with the minimum stated. Below factory minimums, small runs from 100 pieces per style and colour are made by our named small-run partner in its caps-and-bags category, managed by us and described on the caps and bags small-run page.
What to send for a bag quote
There is no published starting price for bags; each style is quoted against its specification with the print or embroidery shown as its own line.
- Bag type and finished dimensions: width, height, base depth, handle length and drop
- Fabric: fibre, weight in ounces or GSM, natural or dyed, and whether organic or recycled with certificate
- Handles, gussets, closure and pockets, as above
- Artwork in vector format with Pantone references, and the print area on a flat drawing
- Quantity per style and colour, the market, and whether the bags ship with a clothing order
Sources
Checked . Rules and figures change, so confirm anything that affects your pricing.
- European Commission — New EU rules on packaging enter into application (PPWR, Regulation (EU) 2025/40, from 12 August 2026) (opens in a new tab)
- EUR-Lex — Directive (EU) 2015/720 on reducing the consumption of lightweight plastic carrier bags (summary) (opens in a new tab)
- EUR-Lex — Directive (EU) 2019/904 on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment (opens in a new tab)
- Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 on textile fibre names and related labelling (opens in a new tab)
- FTC — Threading Your Way Through the Labeling Requirements Under the Textile and Wool Acts (opens in a new tab)
Standards for bags.
The standards buyers most often ask about in this category. We share the certificates and test reports that apply to the factory and fabric used for your order.
| Standard | What it proves | Type |
|---|---|---|
| OEKO-TEX® STANDARD 100 | Every component of a product — fabric, thread, labels, buttons, prints — is tested for harmful substances. | Voluntary standard |
| GOTS — Global Organic Textile Standard | Organic fibre tracked from farm to finished garment, with environmental and social criteria at every processing stage. | Voluntary standard |
| GRS — Global Recycled Standard | Verifies recycled content (at least 20% to be certified, 50% for an on-product label) and adds social, environmental and chemical requirements for every processing site.. | Voluntary standard |
| amfori BSCI | Audits working conditions against the amfori Code of Conduct: fair pay, working hours, freedom of association, no child or bonded labour, health and safety, and the management systems behind them. | Voluntary standard |
| Fibre content and care labelling | Legal rules for how fibre composition, country of origin and care instructions must appear on the garment label in each market.. | Product test |
Quality checks on every order.
Fabric is tested before cutting, the line is checked from the first bundles, and a final AQL inspection happens before packing is sealed. You get the report with photos before you approve shipment.
Bags: common questions.
What is the minimum order for tote bags?
Quoted per style, and set mostly by the fabric. A plain cotton canvas in its natural colour has a low minimum because mills run it continuously and a factory can buy it by the roll; a canvas dyed to your colour needs a dye lot, which raises the minimum for that colour, and every colour is its own lot. Printing does not usually change the minimum, but screen printing carries a set-up per colour that is spread over fewer bags on a small order. Our only confirmed minimum applies to t-shirts, at 1,000 pieces; bags are quoted per style with the minimum stated on the quote. Below factory minimums, small runs from 100 pieces per style and colour are made by our named small-run partner in its caps-and-bags category and managed by us; the caps and bags small-run page describes that route and its limits.
Which canvas weight should I choose?
Match the weight to the job. Four to six ounce cotton is for promotional and event totes, dust bags and packing bags: it folds flat, prints cheaply and is not meant to carry weight for years. Eight to ten ounce canvas is the everyday shopping tote, strong enough for groceries and books and still light. Twelve ounce canvas or duck stands up on its own, takes a base gusset well and suits a structured market bag or a bag sold as a product in its own right. Fourteen ounce and above, often waxed or coated, is for tool bags and bags meant to outlast the buyer’s expectations. Heavier fabric costs more per bag, prints with slightly less detail, and needs stronger handle attachments to make sense. Send us the bag’s purpose and the price point and we propose two weights with swatches.
Can you print or embroider bags?
Yes, by the same methods used on garments. Screen printing is the standard for logos in one to four colours and gives the lowest cost per bag at volume, with a screen charge per colour; digital and direct-to-garment printing reproduce full-colour and photographic artwork with no screens and suit small runs; embroidery gives a raised, premium logo on heavier canvas and is priced by stitch count; heat transfers suit polyester gym sacks and foldable shoppers. The print area is limited by the handle attachment and the gusset, so we place your artwork on a flat drawing at sampling and approve a strike-off on the actual bag before bulk. Send artwork in vector format with Pantone references. Where the bag ships with a clothing order, the artwork approvals run together, so a brand’s tee print and tote print are matched to the same colour standard.
Are cotton bags compliant with EU packaging rules?
It depends on how the bag is sold, and that classification is a decision for your compliance adviser rather than for a factory. The rules that drive demand for cotton bags are clear: Directive (EU) 2015/720 required member states to cut lightweight plastic carrier bag use to 40 per person a year by the end of 2025; Directive (EU) 2019/904 added producer responsibility for very lightweight plastic bags; and the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (EU) 2025/40 applies from 12 August 2026 to packaging placed on the EU market, with recyclability and labelling requirements. A cotton tote given away as a carrier bag and a cotton tote sold as a product may sit under different rules. What we do is make the bag to the specification your adviser sets, label it with the fibre content and origin your market requires, and supply transaction certificates where you claim organic or recycled cotton.
Can bags ship with my clothing order?
Yes, and it is often the reason a brand orders them from us. Dust bags, branded retail totes and launch merchandise are made in the same kind of cut-and-sew factory as the garments, so they can be produced alongside your clothing order, inspected with it, packed to your specification and shipped under the same commercial invoice, packing list and transport document. Artwork approvals run together, so the tote print and the garment print are matched to one colour standard. Where a bag needs a specialist factory, for example a heavy waxed canvas or a laminated jute, we place it separately, name the factory as we do on every order, and consolidate the goods for shipment where the timing allows. Tell us at the quote stage that the bags belong to a clothing order and we plan both on one critical path.
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Costs and market rules
Planning an order of bags?
Send a tech pack, a sketch or a photo of a garment you like. We reply within one working day with questions or a first costing.
- One merchandiser responsible for your order
- Certificates and audit reports shared before production
- AQL final inspection report before you approve shipment
- NDA signed on request before you share designs