Minku Apparel supplies private-label tees to brands across Canada, opening at 50 pieces per design, running combed cotton from 180 to 240 GSM, and delivering DDP nationwide in about 6 to 9 days by air. We cut boxy heavyweight blanks, finish them with your labels and tags, decorate them in-house, and lock a sample before bulk. For a Toronto or Vancouver label, we are the overseas factory behind a heavyweight tee you fully control.
Below: the fabric weights and cuts on offer, our in-house decoration, how pricing works in Canadian dollars, and how an order clears customs with GST/HST handled and reaches you door to door.
Serving the Toronto and Vancouver scenes
Canada’s streetwear pulls from two coasts. Toronto carries an OVO-era hip-hop influence and one of the most multicultural customer bases on the continent; Vancouver leans into an outdoor and technical-wear crossover under grey, rainy West Coast skies. Both cities buy heavy, because the winters are long and layering is simply how people dress. A tee built for Canadian labels has to keep its structure under a hoodie or shell and still look premium on its own. We manufacture that base – a boxy combed-cotton body, a collar that holds, tidy stitching, and your own branding inside.
Heavier cotton for long winters
Weight leads the conversation, and Canada leans up the scale. Combed cotton runs from a 180 GSM mid-weight to a dense 240 GSM; for most Canadian brands the 220 to 240 GSM band is the sweet spot – a shirt that layers all winter and still works bare in summer. Combed and ring-spun yarns keep the print surface smooth and the hand soft, while double-needle stitching and a ribbed set-in collar survive repeated washing. Every GSM figure and measurement lands on your tech pack, so a reorder shipped in a different season comes back the same.
Decoration and private labelling
All decoration is done in-house. Screen printing gives you opaque, punchy colour in plastisol or water-based ink; direct-to-garment handles photographic, many-coloured art with no colour penalty; puff and flat embroidery add a premium chest or sleeve mark. All-over print, garment dye, and acid wash cover the vintage end. Your woven or printed neck label, tape, and hem tag go on every piece. Against strong homegrown Canadian brands, that private-label ownership – your GSM, your fit, your branding – is what turns a printed blank into your product.
Pricing in Canadian dollars
Orders begin at 50 pieces per design, so a founder can prove a graphic before scaling. We quote in Canadian dollars, with the figure set by weight, cut, and decoration and falling as volume climbs. We are transparent about the cost drivers – cloth weight, print method, label finishing – so you can price confidently across provinces. The MOQ and pricing page lays out the approach; ask for a landed cost in Canada.
DDP from coast to coast
DDP door-to-door works the same whether you ship from Toronto, sell from a Vancouver pop-up, or fulfil across the Prairies – the Canadian-dollar landed cost is fixed before dispatch, with GST/HST and customs already handled. Air freight lands in roughly 6 to 9 days once QC clears. For a bilingual market we can print or weave care and content labels to your exact requirement, so your inside branding meets Canadian expectations without extra finishing at your end. More on how DDP works.
Sampling before the run
We sample every order first. With the spec agreed, a pre-production tee lets you weigh the cotton, feel the drop, and inspect print registration before bulk begins; on approval the run proceeds on a set schedule under our written guarantee, then ships DDP to your door. Send artwork, a shirt to match, or a tech pack – and if there is no tech pack, we build it and slot it into your wider streetwear range.
Testing designs before you scale
A 50-piece minimum is built for how young Canadian labels actually grow. Print one design, sell it through a Toronto pop-up or a Vancouver market, and reorder only the pieces that moved – all on the same confirmed blank, so your second run matches the first exactly. It keeps cash out of dead stock and lets a design earn its way into a bigger order rather than betting the season upfront.
A guarantee behind every Canadian order
Every run is inspected against the approved sample and ships under our written quality guarantee. If something drifts from the agreed spec, we put it right before it reaches you. For a brand shipping across provinces and building a name against strong homegrown competition, that reliability is the difference between a one-time buyer and a repeat customer.
What to send us
Bring artwork, a shirt to match, or a tech pack; if there is no tech pack, we build it from your fabric and fit choices. Then we sample, you approve, and bulk ships DDP to your door.
Turnaround Canadian brands can plan around
Sampling before bulk plus a roughly 6 to 9 day DDP air transit gives you a lead time you can actually schedule a drop around. Lock a design ahead of a launch, and if it sells through you reorder on the same confirmed blank without re-proving the fabric. Because the Canadian-dollar landed cost is set before dispatch, you can commit to a release date and a retail price with the numbers already settled.
Ready to build a heavyweight tee for your Canadian brand? Explore the full custom t-shirt program, then request a sample or get a quote in Canadian dollars.
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