fresh stock quick-dry anti-wrinkle 4 way strech 40D nylon spandex fabric for sportswear

Product Overview

This is a 40D nylon/spandex four-way stretch fabric developed primarily for sportswear and other applications that require flexibility, a relatively lightweight construction, and easy movement. The listed composition is 88% nylon and 12% spandex, with a weight of 95–100 gsm and a finished width of 148 cm.

The fabric is described as quick-drying, anti-wrinkle, durable, and flexible. Its four-way stretch is intended to follow movement in applications such as yoga wear, cycling shorts, training garments, and other close-fitting or movement-intensive sportswear.

Plain-dyed fabric is available, and the source also lists silver, PA-coated, PU-coated, and PVC-coated versions. Because coating can materially change stretch, breathability, hand feel, water resistance, and sewing behavior, buyers should confirm the exact version required before requesting a quotation or approving a sample.

Product Specifications

Material, Construction, Appearance, and Hand Feel

The 88% nylon content supports a lightweight, durable base, while the 12% spandex provides elasticity for movement-oriented garments. The four-way stretch designation indicates extension in both lengthwise and crosswise directions, but the page does not state the actual stretch percentage, recovery rate, modulus, or dimensional-stability result. These values should be established against the buyer’s garment requirements.

At 95–100 gsm, the fabric is relatively lightweight. This may benefit quick-drying activewear, lightweight panels, linings, and packable garments, but the buyer should evaluate opacity, coverage under stretch, and fabric recovery before using it for unlined leggings or high-compression bottoms.

The final appearance and hand feel will depend on the selected dyeing or coating route. A plain-dyed version will not necessarily behave like a PA-, PU-, or PVC-coated version. The source also lists “silver,” but does not clarify whether this describes a silver color, silver coating, film, or another finish. Confirm the intended specification during sampling.

Key Product Features

• Four-way mobility: The fabric is designed to stretch in multiple directions, helping garments follow bending, cycling, training, and yoga movements.
• Quick-dry positioning: The existing product information describes the fabric as moisture-wicking and quick-drying. Buyers with defined drying-time or moisture-management requirements should request available test data or arrange testing against their own standard.
• Anti-wrinkle appearance: The fabric is described as maintaining its appearance after repeated wear and washing. Bulk acceptance standards for wrinkling, dimensional stability, and wash performance should be agreed before production.
• Nylon/spandex balance: The 40D nylon/spandex construction is positioned to provide a combination of durability, flexibility, comfort, and fit.
• Color and finish flexibility: Custom colors are available, while plain-dyed, silver, PA-, PU-, and PVC-coated routes are source-listed for different product-development needs.
• Additional functional options: Waterproof, flame-retardant, anti-static, tear-resistant, and shrink-resistant features appear in the existing specification. Do not assume that every feature is included in every version; identify the required performance standard before sampling and quotation.

Detailed Applications and Use Cases

Sportswear and Training Apparel

The fabric’s four-way stretch and relatively lightweight 95–100 gsm construction make it relevant to training tops, lightweight shorts, warm-up garments, stretch panels, track garments, and other sportswear that must move with the wearer.

For close-fitting products, buyers should confirm stretch percentage, recovery, opacity, pilling, snagging, perspiration colorfastness, and seam strength. If the garment will experience repeated abrasion from equipment or body movement, abrasion testing should also form part of sample approval.

Yoga Pants, Cycling Shorts, and Fitted Bottoms

Four-way stretch supports the multidirectional movement required in yoga poses, cycling, and gym training. The nylon/spandex composition may also help create a close, flexible fit.

Because this fabric is listed at 95–100 gsm, it may be lighter than fabrics normally selected for high-compression or fully opaque leggings. Buyers should conduct squat-opacity, stretch-recovery, seam-extension, and coverage tests in the selected color. A lining, double layer, reinforced panel, or different weight may be needed for certain styles.

Swimwear and Quick-Drying Garments

The existing description identifies swimwear as a potential application because of the quick-dry positioning and four-way stretch. Suitability should remain conditional until the selected version has been tested for chlorine resistance, salt-water exposure, UV exposure, colorfastness, stretch recovery, and lining compatibility.

A general quick-dry claim does not automatically establish swimming-pool or marine performance. Buyers should communicate the exact use environment before sample development.

Lightweight Jackets, Trousers, and Active Outer Layers

Plain-dyed or appropriately coated versions may be considered for lightweight jackets, wind-resistant layers, stretch trousers, packable garments, and selected outdoor or travel products. The anti-wrinkle positioning may be useful for garments intended to remain presentable during packing and repeated use.

For water-resistant or waterproof programs, confirm the coating chemistry, hydrostatic-pressure requirement, spray rating, air permeability, seam construction, wash durability, and whether seam sealing is required. “Waterproof” should not be treated as a guaranteed grade without an agreed test method and result.

Bags, Luggage, and Linings

The source lists bags, luggage, and lining applications. Coated versions may be useful for lightweight internal compartments, stretch pockets, garment-bag components, or decorative panels.

At 95–100 gsm, the fabric should not automatically be treated as a load-bearing luggage shell. Buyers should test tear strength, seam slippage, abrasion resistance, coating adhesion, and puncture resistance. Reinforcement, backing, lamination, or a heavier construction may be required for high-stress areas.

Garment Linings, Costumes, and Bridal Applications

The lightweight construction, custom-color availability, and stretch may be useful for garment linings, stretch costume components, trousers, and selected bridal or occasionwear linings. Sampling should confirm opacity, drape, surface appearance, static behavior, and compatibility with the outer fabric.

For bridal or light-colored garments, examine transparency and shade consistency under both indoor and daylight conditions. The source does not provide a hand-feel or drape specification, so these qualities should be approved from a physical sample.

Bedding, Home Textiles, Sofas, Toys, and Home Décor

Bedding, home textiles, sofas, toys, and home décor are included in the source’s application information. Given the listed 95–100 gsm weight, this fabric may be more appropriate for linings, internal layers, lightweight decorative components, coated barriers, or secondary panels than for heavily abraded upholstery face fabric.

Furniture, bedding, and toy programs may be subject to market-specific flammability, restricted-substance, durability, and child-safety requirements. Confirm the exact end use and test standard before selecting a flame-retardant, coated, or other functional version.

Design and Manufacturing Considerations

• Approve the exact version first: Identify whether the order is plain dyed, silver, PA coated, PU coated, or PVC coated. Coating selection can affect stretch, weight, breathability, hand feel, sewing, bonding, and care.
• Check stretch and recovery: Request lengthwise and crosswise stretch percentages, recovery results, and fabric orientation guidance before finalizing garment patterns.
• Evaluate opacity: Dark and light colors may behave differently under stretch. Conduct an opacity test at the intended garment extension.
• Run sewing trials: A fine ballpoint or stretch needle and an elastic seam construction may be appropriate, but the final needle size, thread, stitch density, and seam type should be selected through production trials.
• Confirm edge behavior: The source does not state the weave or knit structure. Test fraying, curling, heat-cutting response, overlocking, and edge finishing on the selected version.
• Approve color and finish: Use lab dips and approval samples to verify shade, gloss, coating appearance, hand feel, width, weight, and functional performance.
• Define test requirements: Depending on the application, consider colorfastness, dimensional stability, drying time, moisture management, stretch and recovery, pilling, snagging, abrasion, tear strength, seam slippage, coating adhesion, hydrostatic pressure, flame retardancy, anti-static performance, and restricted substances.
• Confirm care instructions: No wash-care specification is provided on the source page. Establish care labeling only after testing the final dyed or coated construction.

Customization, Sampling, and Bulk Ordering

Customization

The source supports custom colors and OEM service. Logo customization is available depending on the buyer’s request. Plain-dyed, silver, PA-coated, PU-coated, and PVC-coated versions are also listed, while roll length and packing can be adjusted by agreement.

Availability, MOQ, technical feasibility, additional cost, and lead time may vary by color, coating, logo process, performance requirement, and packaging format.

Sampling and Lead Time

• Lab dip: normally 3–5 days
• Plain-color approval sample: normally 7–10 days
• Bulk production: 3–20 days
• MOQ: 2,000 meters per color
• Sample MOQ and sample-payment method: confirm with FabricsTrades
• Fresh-stock availability: confirm current color, lot, quantity, and continuity before ordering

Capacity, Packaging, and Shipping

The existing page lists daily output of up to 150,000 meters and monthly production capacity of more than 3 million meters. These figures may describe different lines or company-wide capacity, so buyers should confirm available capacity for this specific 40D nylon/spandex quality.

Standard roll-packing options are 50, 100, or 200 meters per roll. Other packing requirements can be discussed. The source lists usual loading quantities of approximately 100,000 meters for one 20GP container and 160,000 meters for one 40GP container. Actual loading depends on roll length, packing method, fabric volume, and shipping requirements.

Express and sea freight are available. Confirm the preferred Incoterm, destination, freight arrangement, packing marks, and required shipping documents when requesting a quotation.

Payment and Pricing

For first-time clients, the existing page states a typical payment arrangement of 30% down payment and 70% before shipping by T/T. Another section states 30% T/T in advance and 70% upon receipt of a copy of the bill of lading. Because these payment milestones differ, confirm the final terms in the proforma invoice before placing the order.

For repeat clients, L/C may be considered, and other payment arrangements can be negotiated.

Pricing is determined according to quantity and quality. The current page indicates three online quantity-based price brackets, with more favorable pricing at higher quantities. Request a formal quotation based on the required composition, finish, color, quantity, packing, testing, and delivery terms.

FabricsTrades Sourcing and Development Support

Located in Wujiang District, Suzhou, FabricsTrades operates in one of the world’s most concentrated textile-manufacturing regions. In addition to operating its own four-way stretch fabric factory, the company works with nearby weaving, knitting, dyeing, printing, coating, finishing, and garment-support facilities.

This regional supply-chain access allows the team to evaluate alternative constructions, colors, coatings, finishes, specifications, and custom-development routes when a standard product does not fully match the buyer’s application. Feasibility, MOQ, testing, and lead time should be confirmed for each development.

The existing listing also notes more than 10 years of experience across synthetic-fabric lines including polyester taffeta, satin, and Oxford fabrics, as well as experience serving customers in the Middle East, South America, and Europe.

Factory visits are welcome. The source also states that airport or station pickup can be arranged; confirm the schedule with FabricsTrades before traveling.

2024–2026 Fabric Regulations & Compliance Update

Because this nylon/spandex product may be supplied with waterproof or coated finishes, buyers should evaluate whether fluorinated finishing chemistry, membranes, coating auxiliaries, or cross-contamination could affect the finished article.

• EU REACH PFHxA restriction: EU-bound sportswear, apparel, accessories, bags, or other consumer-textile programs may need to review the EU REACH PFHxA Restriction. The restriction’s application date for general-public clothing, related accessories, and footwear is 10 October 2026, while certain other consumer textiles follow in 2027. Exact resource: https://fabricstrades.com/insight/eu-reach-pfhxa-restriction-and-the-china-fabric-supply-chain/
• California AB 1817: California-bound apparel, bags, bedding, furnishings, upholstery, and other covered textile articles may need to review the California AB 1817 PFAS Textile Ban. Most covered new textile articles have been subject to restrictions on intentionally added PFAS and a 100 ppm total organic fluorine threshold since 1 January 2025; the threshold is scheduled to tighten to 50 ppm on 1 January 2027. Exact resource: https://fabricstrades.com/insight/california-ab-1817-pfas-textile-ban-and-the-china-fabric-supply-chain/

Requirements vary by destination market, end-product category, finish, component, and date of sale. Communicate restricted-substance and retailer requirements before sampling and quotation. Where necessary, request available finish SDS/TDS documents, supplier declarations, certificates, technical data, traceability records, lot-specific test reports, or third-party testing support.

No certification, PFAS status, waterproof grade, flame-retardant grade, or legal-compliance conclusion should be assumed from the general product description. Supporting documents depend on the final specification, production batch, destination market, and requested test program.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is this 40D nylon/spandex fabric?

It is an 88% nylon and 12% spandex four-way stretch fabric with a listed weight of 95–100 gsm and width of 148 cm. It is primarily positioned for sportswear and movement-oriented garments.

Is this fabric suitable for yoga pants or cycling shorts?

It can be considered for yoga pants, cycling shorts, and other fitted sportswear because of its four-way stretch. However, buyers should test opacity, stretch percentage, recovery, pilling, and seam performance, particularly because the listed weight is relatively lightweight.

Is the fabric waterproof?

Waterproof is included in the source-listed features, and PA-, PU-, and PVC-coated versions are listed. Buyers should confirm which version provides the required water resistance and specify the applicable test method, hydrostatic-pressure target, spray rating, and wash-durability requirement.

Are flame-retardant and anti-static properties included as standard?

The existing page lists flame-retardant and anti-static features, but it does not provide a standard, grade, or test result. Confirm whether these are included in the selected version or require a special finish, and request the applicable documentation before bulk production.

How long does it take to finish a lab dip?

A lab dip normally takes 3–5 days. A plain-color approval sample normally takes 7–10 days.

Can FabricsTrades provide OEM service?

Yes. OEM service depends on the buyer’s specific request, and logo customization can be discussed. Confirm the process, artwork, MOQ, cost, and lead time before sampling.

What is the production capacity?

The existing page lists monthly production capacity of more than 3 million meters and daily output of up to 150,000 meters. Confirm current product-specific capacity and production-slot availability when placing an order.

What is the bulk-production delivery time?

The source lists 3–20 days for mass production. The actual lead time depends on stock, color, coating or finish, order quantity, sample approval, testing, packing, and production scheduling.

Can buyers visit the factory?

Yes. Factory visits are welcome, and airport or station pickup may be arranged. Contact FabricsTrades in advance to confirm the date, location, and pickup details.

How is the product price determined?

Pricing depends on the required quality and order quantity. The existing page refers to three online quantity-based pricing levels, with more favorable pricing for higher quantities. Request a formal quotation for the exact color, finish, volume, testing, packing, and shipping terms.

How long is one yard in meters?

One yard equals 0.9144 meter.

What compliance documents can buyers request?

Depending on the final specification and production batch, buyers can ask FabricsTrades about available test reports, certificates, declarations, technical data sheets, finish SDS/TDS documents, traceability information, and third-party testing support. Required documents and standards should be communicated before sampling and quotation.

Request a Quote or Sample

To receive an accurate quotation or sample recommendation, provide:

• Intended garment or end-product application
• Required composition and 40D yarn specification
• Target weight and width
• Required stretch percentage and recovery
• Color or lab-dip requirement
• Plain-dyed, silver, PA-, PU-, or PVC-coated finish
• Required quick-dry, waterproof, flame-retardant, anti-static, tear, shrinkage, or other performance standard
• Order quantity and destination market
• Packaging and shipping requirements
• Required test reports, certificates, declarations, or restricted-substance documentation
• Target sample and bulk-delivery date

Contact FabricsTrades to request a quotation, fabric sample, lab dip, approval sample, available technical documents, or an evaluation of a custom 40D nylon/spandex four-way stretch fabric development.