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Poly-Spandex Single Jersey 200 GSM — 160 cm

A 200 GSM single jersey on a 160 cm width, knitted from 95% polyester / 5% spandex. The face is plain: one smooth wale after another, no eyelets and no tuck structure, so what you see is the cloth itself rather than a pattern. That is the point of this quality — it is the base cloth for the garments that sit against the skin.

At 200 GSM it has enough body to hang straight on a dress or a pair of wide-leg trousers, and enough stretch to pull a fitted tee or a base layer over the shoulders without strain. It takes colour deeply, prints cleanly and holds its shade through repeated washing, which is why the same quality turns up in loungewear, kids’ wear and uniform tees as well as in activewear.

Composition

95% Polyester5% spandex

Weight

200 GSM5.9 oz/yd²

Width

160 cm63 inch, open width

Yarn count

Set at orderbuilt against 200 GSM on 160 cm

MOQ

300 kg≈ 940 running metres

Colour

No.001 – No.096quote the shade number

Full specification

Customization	Available — shade, weight and width confirmed at quotation
Knitting technics	Knitted (circular), single jersey. Plain wale face with spandex running through the yarn path; no eyelets, no tuck structure — the face stays smooth
Composition	95% polyester + 5% spandex
Weight	200 GSM / 5.9 oz/yd²
Width	160 cm / 63 inch, open width
Yarn count	Set at order. Send the count you already run and we knit this quality to it against 200 GSM on the 160 cm width; the price above is quoted on our standard count
Dyeing	Piece dyed after knitting, so the shade runs even from the first metre of the roll to the last
Colour	Our stock shade card, quoted by number (No.001–No.096); or dyed to order against an approved lab dip. Ask for the card and we send it with the quotation
Stretch	Two-way stretch from the 5% spandex, with recovery in the knit. Enough to hold a fitted tee or a base layer against the body without bagging at the elbow
Hand	Smooth, soft and slightly cool to the touch; drapes without clinging, and resists creasing in the roll and in the wash
Surface	Plain face with a fine, even wale — it takes a screen print, a sublimation transfer, a digital print or an embroidery without the stitch sinking into a hole
Origin	Shaoxing City, Zhejiang, China
MOQ	300 kg per shade
Price	US$ 12.14 / kg (300–999 kg) · US$ 10.69 / kg (1,000 kg+)
Yield	≈ 3.1 running metres per kg at 200 GSM × 160 cm (≈ US$ 3.88 per running metre, ≈ US$ 2.43 per m²)
Lead time	Stock shades ship from the dye lot on hand; dyed-to-order shades are confirmed at quotation
Packing	Roll-packed, roughly 25 kg per roll, poly bag inside a woven sack
Sample	Hanger swatch free; a 1 m cut of a stock shade charged at cost and credited against the bulk order
Documents	Invoice, packing list, B/L, certificate of origin; test reports on request
Care	Machine wash cold, do not bleach, tumble dry low, cool iron on the reverse

A plain face, and why that is the selling point

Comfort in a base layer comes from two things: how the cloth meets the skin, and whether it stays where you put it. A plain single jersey with spandex in the yarn gives you both. The wale is fine and even, so there is no texture to rub and nothing to print through; the spandex is knitted in rather than added as a finish, so the cloth returns to its shape after it stretches instead of growing at the elbow, the knee or the collar.

It also prints better than an open structure. Sublimation, digital print, screen print and embroidery all land on a continuous surface, so fine lines and small type stay sharp. If you want the eyelet version of the same idea — holes knitted in for airflow at a lighter weight — we make that too as a separate quality, and it is quoted on its own page. They are not substitutes: one is smooth, one is perforated.

Colour, quoted by number

Our stock card runs to 96 shades. Pick the numbers you are choosing between and we dye this base to them; if what you need is not on the card, send a Pantone reference or a physical swatch. Quote the number — No.041, not “the royal blue” — so nothing is misread between your buying office and our dye house. Ask for the card with your enquiry and we send it, together with a lab dip of your shortlisted shades on this base cloth. MOQ is 300 kg per shade.

On a smooth face the shade reads true: there is no pile and no shadow between stitches to lift or flatten the tone, so what the lab dip shows is what the roll delivers.

What a kilo buys you

At 200 GSM on a 160 cm width one kilo gives about 3.1 running metres, so the 300 kg minimum is roughly 940 metres — around 720 tee or base-layer bodies at 1.3 m each. That is US$ 3.88 per running metre and US$ 2.43 per m². The 160 cm width is the practical one for cut-and-sew tees: two fronts or a front and a back fit side by side with a normal marker allowance, which is where the saving actually shows up against a 150 cm roll.

Where it goes

T-shirts and long-sleeve tops, base layers and thermal first layers, dresses and skirts, loungewear and sleepwear, kids’ wear, light leggings and sports tops, and the smooth side of workwear uniforms. It takes a reactive or a disperse print, a silicone or a puff print, and an embroidery at 8–10 stitches per cm without the ground showing through. Where it is not the right cloth: anything needing a firm compression hold, a brushed back, or a matte cotton hand — those are different constructions and we quote them separately.

Two things to be clear about. Spandex is the fibre, not a brand — we do not print elastane trademarks on the selvedge. And the yarn count is quoted on request rather than fixed: send the count you run and we knit to it. The composition here is 95% polyester / 5% spandex; if your spec asks for 100% polyester with no stretch, or for a cotton-rich hand, tell us, because the hand and the recovery are not interchangeable.