Fabric databases, pattern and fit tools, weaving, dyeing, repair, standards, and production partners. Source-checked, candid about limitations, and free to search.
25 resources for check standards
The official database of certified organic textile entities, searchable by location, operation, and product category.
Checking GOTS certification records
A company result is not a blanket approval; confirm the certificate scope, validity, facility, process, product, and transaction documentation for the exact purchase.
The official search tool for companies and products carrying OEKO-TEX labels.
Finding labeled textile products and companies
A search result applies only to its named label and scope; check the exact certificate number, product, facility, status, and validity before making a claim.
A central search for active scope certificates and certified sourcing options across Textile Exchange standards.
Checking a certified company or scope certificate
Certificate data comes from certification bodies; verify scope and transaction certificates for the intended material.
Official downloadable lists and reference material for bluesign system partners and approved inputs.
Starting a bluesign-aligned supplier check
Partner status is not a blanket product claim; use the current official list and confirm the exact facility, material, process, or chemical-input scope.
Industry-standard yarn weights, symbols, sizing, abbreviations, and pattern-writing guidelines.
Resolving yarn and pattern terminology
Voluntary industry guidance; pattern and yarn publishers may use different regional conventions.
US federal guidance on textile, wool, fur, care, origin, and responsible-business labeling requirements.
Starting a US textile-label compliance check
General federal guidance, not legal advice; other federal, state, product, and market rules may apply.
Official EU business guidance on fibre-composition labels, language, animal-origin disclosure, and covered textile products.
Starting an EU textile-label compliance check
An overview, not legal advice; consult current EU law and the rules of each market where the product is sold.
A free, multilingual finished-product restricted-substances list for apparel, footwear, accessories, and related materials.
Building a product chemical-restriction baseline
Not legal advice or a substitute for current laws, brand-specific RSLs, testing plans, or supplier controls.
A searchable list of chemicals banned from intentional use in textile, leather, rubber, foam, adhesive, and trim processing.
Chemical-input controls during manufacturing
Does not replace law, workplace-safety rules, finished-product RSLs, or brand-specific chemical requirements.
A free reference covering laws and regulations that restrict chemicals in finished apparel, footwear, and home-textile products.
Surveying finished-product chemical regulations
A reference compilation, not legal advice; verify the current law, market, product scope, and test method.
Official guidance on fibre disclosure, dealer identity, bilingual requirements, label application, imports, and textile advertising in Canada.
Starting a Canadian textile-label compliance check
An overview, not legal advice; consult the current Act and Regulations plus provincial language and product-specific requirements.
Trading Standards guidance on fibre-content labels, component disclosure, permitted fibre names, placement, and business responsibility.
Starting a Great Britain textile-label compliance check
The guide covers England, Scotland, and Wales, not Northern Ireland; verify current law and market-specific obligations before sale.
Official ACCC guidance on Australia’s mandatory care-labelling standard for clothing, textiles, furnishings, leather, and related goods.
Checking Australian care-label scope and format
This is a care-labelling overview, not a complete product-safety, fibre-content, origin, or legal compliance review.
Official guidance on fibre-content labels for clothing, fabric, hosiery, carpets, and other textile goods sold in New Zealand.
Checking New Zealand fibre-content label requirements
Fibre content is one obligation; separate care, country-of-origin, children’s-nightwear, and product rules may also apply.
The official public map for current WRAP-certified apparel, footwear, sewn-goods, leather-goods, and textile production facilities worldwide.
Checking a named facility's current WRAP certification or discovering listed production units
The public map is opt-in and certification applies to an individual production unit; it does not establish product quality, capacity, availability, upstream coverage, or whole-chain performance.
An ILO and IFC portal publishing named apparel-factory assessment data and disclosed non-compliance findings in participating country programs.
Reviewing public labor-compliance findings for a participating factory
Coverage is limited to participating countries and eligible factories, and current migration can delay recent assessments; absence of a published issue is not approval, a complete audit, or proof of sourcing fit.
The official public search for Fairtrade-certified organizations by status, product, country, supply-chain function, or keyword.
Checking an organization's Fairtrade certification in a cotton or textile supply chain
The public search is not the complete customer list, and organization status does not prove the claim, scope, documentation, or availability of a specific product, shipment, or transaction.
The official certificate and license search for FSC organizations, status, scope, country, certification body, and forest-based product categories including packaging.
Checking chain-of-custody scope for paper packaging, hangtags, and printed materials
A valid certificate covers only its stated organization and scope; it does not prove that a specific packaging order carries an FSC claim or that every party and transaction is documented correctly.
The official search for PEFC-certified organizations, certificate validity, countries, products, and chain-of-custody sourcing records.
Finding or checking paper-based packaging and hangtag suppliers with PEFC chain-of-custody scope
A chain-of-custody record applies only to the named organization and scope; verify the exact product claim, current status, supplier role, artwork approval, and transaction documentation for each order.
The European Commission's searchable catalogue of EU Ecolabel goods and services includes a clothing and textiles category plus downloadable and API-accessible product data.
Checking whether a named textile product and licence holder appears in the current EU Ecolabel catalogue before requesting scope evidence
The Commission states that licence holders are responsible for registering their products, so the catalogue can be non-exhaustive; a match applies only to the listed product and licence scope and does not establish supplier capacity, commercial fit, every environmental claim, or broader company performance.
The European e-Justice Portal explains and links the Business Registers Interconnection System for searching companies and filed information across the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.
Checking whether a shortlisted European supplier's legal company name and registration number resolve to a current national business-register record
Basic search does not prove that the registered entity owns or operates the facility presented to a buyer, and available fields, documents, prices, and delivery vary by national register; match the legal record to contracts, invoices, bank details, facility evidence, and current contacts.
The European Commission's VIES service checks whether a VAT number is recorded for cross-border transactions within the European Union and returns the validation response supplied by national databases.
Checking an EU supplier's stated VAT number and saving the dated validation response as one identity and invoicing control
A valid VAT number is not proof of manufacturing capability, facility ownership, authorized bank instructions, product origin, tax advice, quality, capacity, certification, labor conditions, or delivery; names and addresses may not be returned for every country, and temporary database outages occur.
Official CPSC gateway for U.S. clothing-textile, vinyl-film, children's sleepwear, infant-garment, tight-fitting sleepwear, certificate, and related flammability requirements.
Classifying the first federal flammability and certificate questions for apparel intended for U.S. sale before reading the current rule text
The gateway is not a product classification, complete rule matrix, test plan, laboratory acceptance, certificate, label review, import filing, or legal opinion. Requirements depend on the actual product, age, size, material, treatment, components, use, claims, destination, manufacture, and current law; verify the rule text and qualified evidence before release.
Official CPSC guidance on the responsible certifier, third-party test basis, required certificate elements, exclusions, examples, and supporting records for covered children's products.
Structuring a Children's Product Certificate after the actual product and applicable CPSC-enforced rules have been identified
The examples are illustrative and do not identify every rule for a product. This page does not classify an item, select tests, prove that a laboratory scope or report matches production, issue a certificate, satisfy tracking-label duties, or complete current import eFiling. The responsible certifier remains accountable for current and accurate product-specific evidence.
Official CPSC entry point for certificate eFiling applicability, Product Registry accounts, importer and broker workflows, regulated-product data, and current document resources.
Planning the current CPSC certificate-data handoff for regulated imports with the importer, finished-product certifier, customs broker, and entry records
The portal does not decide whether a product requires certification, identify the correct rules or certificate data, classify an entry, replace the current 16 CFR part 1110 text, or reconcile a filing to an actual shipment. Effective dates and workflows differ by entry route; use current CPSC, CBP, customs, product-safety, and legal review.
Prepare a source-backed suggestion or correction for the public review queue.
Contribute evidence →01Every external listing points to an official source.
02Access, audience, region, and the last check are visible before you click.
03Source verification is never presented as a provider-quality audit.
04Every listing has a correction route and a written limitation.
05Checks and material changes stay visible in an append-only maintenance trail.
Complete three realistic tasks on your own device. The runner records an anonymous session code, task outcome, one friction category, and timing. It does not ask for your name, email, free-text notes, audio, video, or screen recording.
Self-guided sessions expose search and labeling problems but remain separate from the moderated validation target.