100% cotton French Terry. Smooth knit face for full-bleed AOP, looped back for warmth and structure. The Portuguese streetwear standard. Best for hoodies, sweatshirts, joggers, structured casualwear and tracksuits.
Two heavy cotton bases — one for streetwear, one for the home.
Premium French Terry — 240 g/m², 195 cm wide, looped back. The Portuguese streetwear standard for hoodies, sweatshirts, joggers and structured fashion. Premium Decor Half Panama — 200 g/m², 140 cm wide, basket-weave. The Spanish home-textile workhorse for cushions, table linens, curtains, tote bags and upholstery. Both reactive-printed by the metre, MOQ 1 metre on both bases.
Heavyweight cotton by the metre, printed on demand — French Terry from Portugal, Half Panama from Spain, from 1 metre, shipped on the roll.
Two heavy bases for two completely different verticals.
Heavy Weight is where Fabrics per Metre splits across two production hubs. French Terry is the streetwear-fashion fabric — produced in Portugal, on the same line as our hoodie and sweat finished SKUs, knitted with a smooth face and looped back. Half Panama is the home-textile fabric — produced in Spain, woven, structured, used for cushions, curtains, table linens and tote bags. Both reactive-printed. Both heavy enough to hold shape under cut-and-sew.
100% cotton in basket-weave (Half Panama) construction. Strong, textured, visually substantial. The Spanish decor workhorse. Best for cushions, table textiles, curtains, tote bags, upholstery and structured home accessories.
Every Heavy Weight base, with full specs.
Both bases at MOQ 1 metre, reactive-printed, shipped on rolls.
| Base | Composition | Weight | Roll width | Production hub | MOQ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Premium French Terry | 100% cotton French Terry | 240 g/m² | 195 cm | Portugal | 1 m |
| Premium Decor Half Panama | 100% cotton Half Panama | 200 g/m² | 140 cm | Spain | 1 m |
Both bases are tier-based and order automatically — register, add the fabric, pick your volume tier and order. No quote, no waiting. For larger orders (500 m+), talk to our team for SLA-locked contract pricing.
Real heavy-weight data across two hubs.
French Terry runs on the Portuguese knit line — same line as our finished hoodie SKUs. Half Panama runs on the Spanish woven line — same line as our finished cushion and curtain SKUs.
French Terry · Half Panama
Heaviest knit · heaviest woven
Full hoodie-front knit · decor woven
Per linear metre at full width
Knit in Portugal · woven in Spain
| SKU code | Fabric | Composition | GSM | Width | Weight / linear m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PTFTMTR… | Premium French Terry | 100% cotton French Terry | 240 | 195 cm | 468 g |
| ESPFHPMTR200003 | Premium Decor Half Panama | 100% cotton Half Panama | 200 | 140 cm | 280 g |
HS code 5208.32 (cotton fabrics by the metre). French Terry SKU prefix being issued by the Portuguese partner; Half Panama already production-tagged.
A knitted streetwear fabric and a woven decor fabric, side by side.
French Terry is a knit construction with a smooth face and a looped back — the loops trap warmth without bulk, the smooth face accepts full-bleed AOP cleanly. At 240 g/m² it’s the streetwear fabric for hoodies, sweatshirts and joggers in their finished form.
Half Panama is a woven construction in a basket weave — tighter than canvas, more textured than poplin. At 200 g/m² it’s heavy enough to hold shape on a sofa, on a table, in a curtain panel, on a tote-bag handle. The textured face shows through reactive print, giving the printed surface a tactile quality flat-printed polyester can’t match.
240 g/m², knit, looped back
Portuguese cotton French Terry. Knitted construction with a smooth face for AOP and a looped back for warmth, breathability and structure. The fabric input behind every premium hoodie or sweatshirt sold under your label. 195 cm wide — broad enough for full-front AOP without panel seaming, even on oversized cuts.
200 g/m², woven, basket weave
Spanish cotton Half Panama. Woven basket-weave structure — the structural backbone of European decor textiles. Strong, breathable, takes reactive print with depth and clarity. 140 cm wide. The default fabric input for cushions, tablecloths, curtains, tote bags and upholstery panels.
Same reactive process on knit and woven, identical colour fidelity.
Reactive dye chemistry chemically bonds colour into cotton fibres. On a knitted French Terry, you get crisp face print plus a loop-back that softens the garment without affecting the show side. On a woven Half Panama, you get the same reactive saturation with the basket-weave texture showing through — a print quality flat-printed polyester home textiles can’t replicate.
- Deep colour saturation across heavy 200–240 g/m² weights
- Soft cotton handfeel preserved — no plastic surface
- Wash durability typically 600+ cycles before measurable fade
- Same dye chemistry across both heavy bases — consistent colour result
- Custom artwork to your file (Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, raster, vector)
Two production hubs. Sold by the metre, shipped on the roll.
Both bases are sold by the metre with no batch minimum — a 5 m sample and a 1,000 m production run go through the same workflow. Cut to your order length and dispatched on cardboard rolls.
1 metre
Both bases are sold by the metre — sample lengths, prototype runs and production rolls all hit the same minimum.
Continuous
Each order ships as a single continuous length on a cardboard roll — cut to your order length, no batch minimum on either base.
140 / 195 cm
140 cm Half Panama (decor cuts), 195 cm French Terry (full-front hoodie / sweatshirt cuts without panel seaming).
Pre-shrunk
Cotton bases are pre-conditioned (mercerised, enzyme-washed where applicable, pre-shrunk) so post-print dimensional change is minimal.
Two production hubs. Lead time varies by metres and queue position.
French Terry runs in Portugal alongside our hoodie and sweatshirt finished-goods line. Half Panama runs in Spain alongside our cushion and table-linen finished-goods line. Both share the same dispatch infrastructure for EU and outside-EU delivery.
Order received
Artwork submitted, fabric reserved (French Terry in PT, Half Panama in ES), metre count locked, slot scheduled.
Print & fix
Pre-treatment, digital reactive print, steam fixation. Colour bonds into the cotton fibre.
Wash & finish
Excess dye removed under OEKO-TEX-compliant water treatment. Fabric stabilised, dried.
Cut & roll
Cut to order length, rolled onto cardboard cores, packed for transport.
From PT or ES
Tracking via webhook. EU 2–5 business days, outside EU 5–10 business days.
Heavy Weight feeds two completely different production verticals.
In-house hoodie production
Independent streetwear labels cutting hoodies, sweatshirts and joggers in-house. Source French Terry rolls with custom AOP, run on the brand’s own cut-and-sew — full design control with the same Portuguese cotton spec we use for our finished SKUs.
Structured casualwear
Established fashion houses building structured casualwear lines — oversized hoodies, drop-shoulder sweats, relaxed-fit joggers. 195 cm width handles full-bleed AOP across oversized cuts without seaming.
Cushions, curtains, table linen
Home-textile cut-and-sew teams using Half Panama as the structural input. Order by the metre, cut to cushion / panel / runner specs in-house, ship under your label. Predictable cotton spec and width simplify costing.
Tote bags, upholstery panels
Manufacturers building printed tote bags, fabric panels and soft furnishings. Half Panama’s textured weave and 200 g/m² weight suit handles, straps and structural panels well.
Sample the cloth, or order by the metre.
Both French Terry and Half Panama are in our Sample Pack — physical swatches to feel the cloth and choose your base. Then register and order by the metre, from 1 m — your tier price is instant.


