Quick answer: The clothing manufacturers in Texas worth contacting cluster in two places, Dallas and El Paso. Dallas holds the state's cut-and-sew and private-label shops. El Paso holds the heavier military, workwear, and industrial-laundry plants. Houston, Austin, and San Antonio are development markets, not production markets.
Texas is the third-largest apparel manufacturing state in the country, with 4,739 workers across 352 establishments in 2024, behind only California (24,697) and New York (7,505) (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, QCEW, 2024). That's about 5.8% of all US apparel manufacturing employment, and it is spread very unevenly across the state.
This directory profiles 11 real, operating Texas clothing manufacturers, plus one technical soft-goods shop flagged separately because it isn't a fashion factory. Every company here has a verifiable Texas address and a public company website or business listing. Where a claim comes from a company's own marketing, we say so.
Heads up: We're OneAim, a group of documented United States clothing factories. The companies below are independent Texas businesses listed on public sources, not members of our group. OneAim's role is separate: we place your production with a documented factory in our group built for your product.
Key Takeaways
- Dallas County is the real Texas garment hub, with 1,540 apparel manufacturing workers across 71 establishments, about a third of the state's total (BLS QCEW, 2024).
- Texas is accumulating small shops, not building big factories. Establishments grew 33% from 2015 to 2024 (264 to 352) while employment actually fell (4,873 to 4,739). Average shop size is now roughly 13 workers.
- El Paso is a distinct, heavier cluster: 889 workers across only 22 establishments, border-adjacent and oriented to military, workwear, and industrial laundry.
- Austin and San Antonio are thin. Travis County reports 127 apparel workers and Bexar 192. Expect development houses and sample rooms, not production floors.
- Almost no Texas factory publishes an MOQ. Only two of the eleven do, so budget time for quoting.
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Where is clothing actually manufactured in Texas?
Overwhelmingly in two places: Dallas and El Paso. Dallas County alone accounts for 1,540 of the state's 4,739 apparel manufacturing workers across 71 establishments, and El Paso County adds another 889 across just 22 (BLS QCEW, 2024). Together those two counties hold just over half of Texas apparel employment.
Everything else is smaller than the listicles suggest
Everything else is smaller than the listicles suggest. Harris County (Houston) reports 611 workers across 50 establishments, which means Houston's shops average around 12 people each, notably smaller than Dallas's. Bexar County (San Antonio) reports 192 workers, and Travis County (Austin) just 127. If you're a brand in Austin looking for a bulk production floor within driving distance, the honest answer is that you'll be driving to Dallas.
Where Texas employment sits by county
Citation capsule: In 2024, Texas apparel manufacturing employed 4,739 people across 352 establishments, third among US states behind California and New York. Dallas County held 1,540 of those workers, El Paso County 889, and Harris County (Houston) 611. Austin and San Antonio together accounted for fewer than 320 apparel manufacturing jobs. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, QCEW, NAICS 315.
What does the BLS data say that the listicles don't?
That Texas is gaining garment shops and losing garment workers at the same time. Between 2015 and 2024, the number of apparel manufacturing establishments in Texas rose 33%, from 264 to 352, while total employment fell from 4,873 to 4,739 (BLS QCEW). More shops, fewer people in them. Average establishment size is now about 13 workers.
The fact that should reset expectations
That single fact should reset your expectations. Texas isn't rebuilding the industrial-scale garment plants it had in the jeans era. It's accumulating small, specialized cut-and-sew operations serving short domestic runs, uniforms, and development work. Any page claiming Dallas has "80+ active garment manufacturers" is stretching: BLS counts 71 establishments in the entire county. And that count includes one-room shops.
How did we choose these manufacturers?
We started from company websites, business addresses, and the BLS establishment data, and we ignored the "top 10 clothing manufacturers in Texas" content-mill pages that dominate this search. Those pages are mostly marketing for offshore sales offices, and several list companies with no Texas factory at all. A listicle is not evidence a factory exists.
Every company below has a live website, a stated Texas location or service area, and a described production capability. What we could not do is audit them. Facility sizes, years in business, customer lists, and capacity claims all come from the companies' own sites and are labelled as such throughout. We excluded names that surfaced repeatedly but failed the test, including a San Antonio shop whose site now returns a 404 and a set of print-on-demand landing pages that market themselves as manufacturers. Eleven real ones beat twenty invented ones.
Which clothing manufacturers are in Dallas and Fort Worth?
Dallas is where the factories actually are. The county's 71 establishments and 1,540 workers make it the state's only genuine garment cluster, and the one region in Texas where a brand can find cutting, sewing, embroidery, and finishing within a short drive of each other. Six of the eleven manufacturers here are in the Dallas metro.
SND Manufacturing (Dallas, TX)
SND Manufacturing is a North Dallas private-label and uniform maker whose own pages describe design, development, and production under one roof, with work spanning uniforms, activewear, sports apparel, and military training uniforms. Federal procurement listings record it as a minority- and woman-owned small business and a federal award recipient.
Its website footer cites 1995, while other listings give 1992, so read it as "operating since the 1990s." Its website was not loading when we checked in October 2026, so call before you plan around it. Best for uniform and government-adjacent programs that need one roof from pattern to pack.
T&Q Cutting Services (Dallas, TX)
T&Q Cutting Services is a cut-and-sew production house on Gretna Street covering sample building, costing, cutting, sewing, and in-line QC for women's, men's, and children's apparel. It says it has worked in DFW for over 30 years.
It's one of only two companies here that publish anything like a minimum. It states it can run production from 50 to 50,000 units, an unusually wide band that's useful if you're scaling a style. Best for brands that want one shop to carry a style from sample to bulk.
Sonrise Apparel Services (Dallas, TX)
Sonrise Apparel Services is a vertical contract cut-and-sew operation founded in 2005, running product development, cutting, sewing, finishing, and quality control in house, and quoting 4 to 6 week turn times. It's oriented to consistent medium-to-large volume rather than one-off drops. That said, it states it can work with smaller brands at medium volume. No published MOQ. Best for brands with repeatable programs rather than seasonal micro-runs.
Expert Apparel Manufacturing (Dallas, TX)
Expert Apparel Manufacturing is a full-service manufacturer handling fabric sourcing, patterns, sampling, bulk production, QC, packaging, and delivery for women's ready-to-wear, swimwear, activewear, and menswear. EAM is the other company here that publishes a minimum, and it's the friendliest in the state: it states no minimum order requirement per design.
It cites 13-plus years of production experience and offers Spanish-language support. Its site lists a facility on Abernathy Avenue in Dallas, so you can visit before you ship fabric. Best for emerging brands testing a first style.
Angel Factory (Garland, TX)
Angel Factory is a sewing contractor in the Dallas metro handling men's, women's, and children's apparel, plus cutting, reworking, embroidery, finishing, and packaging, working in cotton, knits, wovens, fleece, and lycra. It has operated since the early 1990s and says no client is too big or too small. In practice that means no stated minimum. Best for designers and wholesalers who need a flexible sewing partner rather than a full-package factory.
TLCI Manufacturing (Dallas, TX)
TLCI Manufacturing is a cutting-first shop on Proton Road doing bulk fabric cutting plus full-garment sewing for dresses, blouses, pants, men's shirts, and baby and toddler clothing. It says it has focused on apparel cutting for 15-plus years, with an owner carrying 20-plus years of high-fashion dress cutting experience.
This is a small operation, not a large factory, and its HTTPS certificate doesn't validate, so the site loads over plain HTTP. Best for brands that need clean bulk cutting, with sewing as a secondary service.
Why is El Paso a different kind of cluster?
Because it's an industrial cluster, not a fashion one. El Paso County holds 889 apparel manufacturing workers across only 22 establishments, an average of roughly 40 people per shop. That's nearly double the Dallas average, and by far the heaviest concentration in Texas (BLS QCEW, 2024). That's a legacy of the city's jeans-manufacturing era, and the skilled sewing workforce never fully left.
Today that workforce serves military contracts, workwear, industrial laundry, and cross-border production with Ciudad Juárez. Lucchese Bootmaker still runs a long-established boot factory in the city, which is footwear rather than cut-and-sew apparel but tells you something real about why the sewn-goods labor pool persists. If your product is a uniform, a technical workwear garment, or a large government-adjacent program, El Paso is the strongest option in Texas.
Excel Manufacturing (El Paso, TX)
Excel Manufacturing is a contract manufacturer of tactical, ballistic, and protective sewn goods, covering pattern making, sample development, cutting, sewing, seam sealing, and laser cutting in one El Paso facility. Its listed programs include ECWCS cold-weather layers, Navy working parkas, ballistic carrier shells, deployment bags, and flame-resistant coveralls.
The site dates the company to 1977 and describes it as family-owned and HUBZone certified. It names Levi Strauss, Gap Inc., Tommy Hilfiger, and Eddie Bauer as heritage production, and says plainly that those relationships are not current services. No published MOQ, and it builds to the customer's specification. Best for defense, tactical, and protective programs rather than fashion lines.
IGP-USA (El Paso, TX)
IGP-USA is a contract apparel and textile manufacturer combining production with industrial laundry, finishing, and logistics, positioned as a full-package border operation. It says it runs a solar-powered facility in El Paso alongside a larger plant in Mexico. Those facility claims are self-reported and we haven't verified them.
Minority-owned and HUBZone certified. No published MOQ, and its orientation is clearly toward volume. Best for programs that need washing, finishing, and distribution attached to the sewing.
Citation capsule: El Paso County is the most industrially concentrated apparel cluster in Texas: 889 manufacturing workers across just 22 establishments in 2024, roughly 40 workers per shop, versus a Dallas average near 22 and a statewide average near 13. Its manufacturers are oriented toward military apparel, workwear, industrial laundry, and cross-border production rather than fashion. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, QCEW, NAICS 315.
Can you actually manufacture clothing in Houston?
Yes, but in a much thinner market than the city's size suggests. Harris County records 611 apparel manufacturing workers across 50 establishments, so the average Houston shop runs about 12 people (BLS QCEW, 2024). Houston has more than twice as many shops as El Paso but only about two-thirds of the workers. These are small operations, and you should treat them as such.
Renovation Manufacturing (Houston, TX)
Renovation Manufacturing is one of the few genuine cut-and-sew houses in the Houston metro, offering design consulting, fabric and trim sourcing, pattern making, prototyping, marking and cutting, sewing production, finishing, and packing across knits, wovens, activewear, and sportswear.
The facility is appointment-only and its published contact is a Gmail address, both signals of a small operation. Its site claims essentially unlimited volume capacity, which we would not repeat as fact. Best for Houston brands doing local development and small-to-mid runs.
Clothing Manufacture & Rework (Houston, TX)
Clothing Manufacture & Rework is a small-batch sewing shop on Richmond Avenue doing garment manufacturing, rework and repair, custom tailoring and alterations, and upholstery sewing. Be clear-eyed about what this is: a sewing and rework resource, not a production factory. Best for repairs, reworks, sample fixes, and very small batches.
If you're based in Houston, our dedicated Houston clothing manufacturers guide goes deeper on the local options and the realistic paths out of the city.
What about Austin and San Antonio?
Thin, and worth saying plainly. Travis County reports 127 apparel manufacturing workers across 21 establishments, and Bexar County reports 192 across 17 (BLS QCEW, 2024). That's an average of six workers per shop in Austin. These aren't production floors. They're development houses, sample rooms, embroiderers, and alteration shops, and treating them as bulk factories will waste everyone's time.
That doesn't make them useless. It makes them the right first stop and the wrong last stop. Develop and sample locally, then move bulk to Dallas, to another US region, or offshore.
Stitch Texas (Austin, TX)
Stitch Texas is an apparel design, development, and small-run manufacturer founded in 2014, female-owned, with a real niche in medical uniforms and sewn medical goods: scrubs, surgical caps, scoliosis braces, and maternity robes, alongside custom garments for emerging labels. It lists coverage across Austin, Dallas, Houston, Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Arlington. Since its 2022 acquisition by Los Angeles-based Lefty Production Co., clients' bulk runs could be sewn at Lefty's L.A. factory, according to the announcement, so ask where your production will actually be sewn.
This is a development house and small-run facility, not a bulk factory. No published MOQ. Best for brand owners who need a pattern, a prototype, and a first short run.
One adjacent option: technical soft goods, not apparel
One Texas company is worth knowing but sits outside the roster, because it's genuinely not an apparel factory. Texas Cut & Sew (Dallas, founded 2020) does CNC cutting and industrial sewing, product development, prototyping, and subcontract sewing for aerospace, automotive, marine, medical, military, pet, and outdoor categories.
Making outdoor gear or technical bags? It's relevant. Making a T-shirt? It isn't. Its marketing claims about past clients are self-reported and unverified. We list it separately rather than padding the roster to a rounder number, because counting it as a clothing manufacturer would misrepresent what it does.
How do the Texas manufacturers compare?
Here's the roster of 11 at a glance. Note how few publish a minimum, which is the single biggest practical friction in sourcing domestically in Texas.
| Company | City | Type | Specialty | MOQ (published) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SND Manufacturing | Dallas | Full-package | Private label, uniforms, military | Not published |
| T&Q Cutting Services | Dallas | Cut-and-sew | Sample to bulk, in-line QC | 50 to 50,000 units |
| Sonrise Apparel Services | Dallas | Vertical contract | Medium to large volume, 4 to 6 week turns | Not published |
| Expert Apparel Manufacturing | Dallas | Full-service | RTW, swim, activewear, menswear | No minimum per design |
| Angel Factory | Garland (DFW) | Sewing contractor | Knits, wovens, fleece, lycra; rework | Not published |
| TLCI Manufacturing | Dallas | Cutting-first | Bulk cutting, dresses, shirts, kidswear | Not published |
| Excel Manufacturing | El Paso | Full-package | Defense, tactical, protective gear | Not published |
| IGP-USA | El Paso | Contract + laundry | Textiles, finishing, logistics | Not published |
| Renovation Manufacturing | Houston | Cut-and-sew | Knits, wovens, activewear | Not published |
| Clothing Manufacture & Rework | Houston | Small-batch sewing | Rework, repair, tailoring | Not published |
| Stitch Texas | Austin | Development + small run | Medical uniforms, sewn medical goods | Not published |
Source: company websites, 2024 to 2026, cross-referenced against U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics QCEW establishment counts (NAICS 315, 2024). MOQs, facility sizes, founding years, and customer lists are self-reported by each company and are not independently audited.
What should you check before signing with a Texas factory?
Three things, in this order. First, confirm the shop actually performs the operation you need in house, because several Texas businesses that market as manufacturers are cutting rooms, sewing contractors, or rework shops. A cutting-first shop can be excellent at cutting and unable to run your bulk sewing. Second, get the real minimum in writing, since only two of the eleven publish one. An unpublished MOQ is not the same as no MOQ.
Third, verify the claims. Facility square footage, years in business, and customer names on a manufacturer's website are marketing. And in this directory, almost every impressive number is self-reported. Ask for a walkthrough, ask which brands they'd let you call, and pay for a sample before you commit to a run. A shop that can't produce a clean sample can't produce a clean order.
Is Texas the right place to manufacture your clothing?
It depends on your product and your volume. Texas is genuinely strong for uniforms, workwear, military and government-adjacent programs, medical sewn goods, and short domestic runs where a US label and a two-hour drive to the factory are worth the unit cost. The Dallas and El Paso clusters are both real, and they're why Texas ranks third nationally.
Texas is a weaker fit for fashion at scale. With an average establishment of about 13 workers and only 4,739 apparel manufacturing employees statewide, the capacity for a large seasonal fashion program isn't there the way it is in Los Angeles, let alone offshore. So what should a Texas brand do when the volume outgrows the state? Develop locally, then move bulk production to a US factory built for your product. If you are also weighing offshore options, our guide on where to manufacture clothing compares them.
Frequently Asked Questions About Clothing Manufacturers in Texas
How many clothing manufacturers are in Texas?
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 352 apparel manufacturing establishments in Texas in 2024, employing 4,739 people. But that count includes very small shops, alteration businesses, and cutting rooms. The number of genuine full-package clothing factories a brand can book is far smaller, which is why this directory lists 11 rather than 352.
Which Texas city has the most clothing manufacturers?
Dallas. Dallas County reported 1,540 apparel manufacturing workers across 71 establishments in 2024, about a third of the state's total employment and by far the largest cluster. El Paso County is second by headcount with 889 workers, though across only 22 establishments, and Houston's Harris County is third with 611 workers.
Are there clothing manufacturers in Austin?
Very few production factories. Travis County reported just 127 apparel manufacturing workers across 21 establishments in 2024, an average of six people per shop. Austin's real strength is development: Stitch Texas, founded in 2014, does design, patterns, prototyping, and small runs, with a niche in medical uniforms. For bulk, most Austin brands go to Dallas.
What is the minimum order for a Texas clothing manufacturer?
Most don't publish one. Of the 11 manufacturers here, only two do: T&Q Cutting Services states it runs production from 50 to 50,000 units, and Expert Apparel Manufacturing states no minimum order requirement per design. Everyone else quotes case by case, so expect to send a tech pack before you get a number.
Is it more expensive to manufacture clothing in Texas?
Than offshore, yes. Texas apparel manufacturing pays an average of $1,000 per week, or $52,013 a year, slightly below the US apparel-manufacturing average of $1,114 per week (BLS QCEW, 2024). Domestic labor cost is the main driver of the price gap, though shorter lead times and lower freight can offset part of it.
Does Texas manufacture military uniforms?
Several Texas manufacturers say they do. Excel Manufacturing in El Paso lists defense programs including ECWCS cold-weather layers, Navy working parkas, and flame-resistant coveralls. SND Manufacturing in Dallas lists military training uniforms among its work and appears in federal procurement records. Program details come from the companies' own websites, so confirm current contracts directly.
Is Texas apparel manufacturing growing?
Not in employment. Establishments grew 33% from 2015 to 2024, from 264 to 352, but employment fell over the same period from 4,873 to 4,739 (BLS QCEW). Texas is adding small shops, not large factories, and average establishment size has dropped to roughly 13 workers.
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Sources
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), NAICS 315 Apparel Manufacturing, 2024 annual averages. Source for all Texas, county, state-comparison, wage, and 2015 to 2024 trend figures in this article.
- Excel Manufacturing, about page, El Paso, TX, 2026.
- IGP-USA, company website, El Paso, TX, 2024 to 2026.
- SND Manufacturing, company website and federal procurement listings (GovTribe, USAspending), Dallas, TX, 2024 to 2026. Website not loading when checked on 24 October 2026.
- Angel Factory, company website, Garland, TX, 2024 to 2026.
- T&Q Cutting Services, company website, Dallas, TX, 2024 to 2026.
- Sonrise Apparel Services, company website, Dallas, TX, 2024 to 2026.
- Expert Apparel Manufacturing, company website, Dallas, TX, 2024 to 2026.
- TLCI Manufacturing, company website, Dallas, TX, 2024 to 2026.
- Stitch Texas, about page, Austin, TX, 2024 to 2026.
- Lefty Production Co., "LA's Lefty Production Co. Expands to Texas with New Acquisition", 2022.
- Renovation Manufacturing, company website, Houston, TX, 2024 to 2026.
- Clothing Manufacture & Rework, company pages and business listings, 11281 Richmond Ave, Houston, TX, 2024 to 2026.
- Texas Cut & Sew, company website, Dallas, TX, 2024 to 2026. Listed as a technical soft-goods manufacturer, not an apparel factory.
- Lucchese Bootmaker, company website, El Paso, TX. Cited as footwear context only; not an apparel manufacturer.
- OneAim Apparel internal sourcing observations, 2024 to 2026.
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