Minku Apparel is a custom blank t-shirt manufacturer producing undecorated, print-ready streetwear blanks from 50 pieces per design, finished with your labels and tags. We build 180 to 240 GSM combed-cotton tees – boxy, oversized, or fitted – with the collar, stitching, and fabric fully specced to your brand, sample before bulk, and ship worldwide DDP door-to-door. For a label that prints in-house or wants a clean private-label base, this is the blank built for you, not bought off a shelf.
A blank tee is not a neutral product – it is the foundation every decorated piece is built on, and a generic wholesale blank caps how good your brand can look. Buying off a distributor means you share a body, a weight, and a fit with every other label that buys the same catalogue number. A custom blank flips that: your GSM, your cut, your collar, your inside branding – a base garment that is yours before a single print lands.
What makes a custom blank t-shirt distinct
A custom blank t-shirt is a fully manufactured tee delivered undecorated – no print, no embroidery – so you own the base garment and control the decoration yourself. Unlike a stock wholesale blank, every spec is yours: the cotton weight, the fit and drop, the collar construction, the stitching, and the inside labelling. That means the blank already reads as your brand’s product on the hanger, before you or your print partner add artwork.
This is the route for brands that decorate in-house, print shops building their own line, and labels that want a private-label base with branding only. Because we build to your tech pack rather than a fixed catalogue, two brands never end up selling the identical blank – your body and fit are proprietary to you, held consistent across every run.
Who custom blank tees are for
Custom blanks suit brands with their own print or embroidery setup, screen-printing shops launching an in-house label, dropship and print-on-demand operators wanting a premium base, and minimal brands that sell the blank itself with only a woven label as branding. If you control decoration but want a better garment than a distributor offers, a custom blank gives you the quality without outsourcing the print.
They also fit labels testing a new fit or fabric before committing to decorated runs, and teams or events needing clean, consistent bases to print locally. A low 50-piece minimum per design lets you order a proprietary blank in small volume, prove the fit, then scale – no need to commit to thousands to get your own body made.
Blank quality and fabric options
The whole value of a custom blank is in the garment itself, so we build it right. We run combed and ring-spun cotton from a 180 GSM mid-weight up to a dense 240 GSM heavyweight, with a smooth, tightly knit face that takes print and embroidery cleanly. We also offer prepared-for-dye (PFD) blanks for brands that garment-dye, and French terry bases for a heavier premium tee.
Construction is fully yours: side-seamed or tubular body, single or double-needle stitching, a ribbed set-in collar with tonal or contrast neck tape, and a clean hem. These are the details that separate a premium blank from a giveaway shirt, and they are all specced on your tech pack and held identical across reorders so your base never drifts.
Fits and cuts you can spec
A blank is a fit as much as a fabric, so you set the silhouette your brand needs:
- Fitted classic: a leaner, tailored body for a clean, everyday base.
- Regular: a balanced standard cut that suits the widest customer range.
- Boxy oversized: a wider body with a dropped shoulder for a heavyweight streetwear block.
- Cropped: a shorter body for a contemporary, layered silhouette.
You can build several fits on one confirmed fabric so your range shares a hand while offering different shapes. Want the same blank ready to print with your art already on it? See our graphic tee program.
Private-label branding on a blank
Undecorated does not mean unbranded. Even with no print, we finish your blanks with full private-label detailing – a woven or printed inside neck label, printed neck tape, a hem tag, and custom hangtags and packaging. That branding is what turns a plain tee into your product, so the blank reads as yours on the rack and in the customer’s hands, ready for you to decorate or sell as a clean essential.
We can also apply a removable size sticker, poly-bag each piece, and pack to your spec for retail or wholesale. For the full breakdown of labelling and packaging options, see our private-label manufacturing program.
Blank tee specification menu
Every blank is built from your choices, logged on a tech pack so bulk and reorders track the sample:
| Spec | Options |
|---|---|
| Cotton weight | 180, 200, 220, 240 GSM combed / ring-spun; PFD; French terry |
| Fit | Fitted, regular, boxy oversized, cropped |
| Construction | Side-seamed or tubular; single or double-needle stitch |
| Collar | Ribbed set-in crew; tonal or contrast neck tape |
| Branding | Woven or printed inside label, neck tape, hem tag, hangtag |
| Packing | Poly-bag, size sticker, retail or bulk cartons |
We help you set each choice against your brand and price point, then lock it so the pre-production sample and every reorder share one confirmed blank – the consistency your decorated products depend on.
Blank manufacturing versus buying wholesale
The choice between a custom blank and a stock wholesale blank shapes how far your brand can grow.
Custom blank
Your GSM, fit, collar, and inside branding, held identical across runs. The base is proprietary to your brand, so your decorated product looks and feels like no one else’s.
Wholesale blank
A shared catalogue body every buyer can order. Convenient at first, but you compete on the same garment as everyone else, with no control over weight, fit, or branding.
For a serious label, owning the blank is the point where the brand stops looking like a print on someone else’s shirt. Read our guide to cut-and-sew versus blank printing to see where custom manufacturing pays off.
MOQ, pricing, and consistency
Minimum is 50 pieces per design. Pricing tracks cotton weight, fit and construction, branding, and quantity, and it steps down as you scale into reorders. Because a blank carries no decoration cost, the price reflects the garment and the finishing, which makes it the accessible entry point into custom manufacturing – and the base you can decorate however your brand needs.
Consistency is the real deliverable. We log every spec and hold the exact GSM, fit, and construction across reorders, so a print run three months from now sits on a blank identical to today’s. For a brand or print shop, that repeatability is what protects your fit reputation as you scale. Request a quote for landed cost per unit.
Decorating your blanks after delivery
A custom blank is designed to be finished, so it is built to take decoration cleanly whatever route you choose. If you print in-house, the smooth combed-cotton face holds screen and DTG detail, and PFD versions are ready for garment dye or tie-dye. If you outsource decoration locally, a proprietary blank gives your print partner a better, more consistent base than a distributor shirt, which shows in the final piece.
Because you own the blank, you can also decorate the same base in different ways across a range – screen-printed graphics, embroidered logo pieces, and clean label-only essentials – all sharing one fit and fabric. That is how a brand builds a coherent collection instead of a shelf of mismatched wholesale bodies, and it is why owning the blank pays off well beyond the first order.
How Minku makes your blank tee
We sample before bulk on every blank program. After specs are locked, we produce a pre-production sample so you approve the cotton weight, the fit and drop, the collar, the stitching, and the labelling before the run moves. Once you sign off, bulk runs under QC and our written quality guarantee, with fabric weight and measurements checked across the run, then finishes with your labels and ships DDP.
Delivered Duty Paid means import duty and customs handling are already in your landed price, so your blanks arrive at your door in the USA, UK, or Europe with no broker bill at the border – ready to print, embroider, or sell as clean essentials. Send a reference tee or a tech pack, and we build the spec – see our full t-shirt manufacturing program or get your custom quote to start a blank run.