For print-on-demand founders

Stop printing your brand on plastic.

Every blank you ship into your customer's hand is a choice. Most POD platforms put 50–100% polyester in front of you by default. Your customer wears it, sweats in it, washes it, and adds another half-million plastic fibers to the laundry water. There's no good reason for that to be your brand.

What FabricIQ gives POD founders that nothing else does

• 470 blank manufacturer products across 42 brands, with composition normalized, GSM tracked, country of manufacture captured, and price logged.
• Plastic-Free Only filter. One click and the catalog drops to 100% natural-fiber options — cotton, hemp, linen, wool, Tencel, organic variants. No polyester, nylon, acrylic, or spandex.
• Health Impact grade per blank. Microplastic shedding + skin contact + likely chemical treatments (PFAS for jackets, formaldehyde for non-iron shirts, antimony for PET-based polyester).
• Sourcing intelligence. Country breakdown across the catalog so you can build a "Made in Portugal" or "Made in Honduras" subline if it matches your brand.

Why this matters for your brand

The microplastic story is mainstream now

Microplastic fibers from synthetic clothing have been measured in human blood, lungs, and placentas. WIRED, NYT, Vogue Business, and Reddit cover this monthly. Every poly-cotton blank you sell adds to that load.

A 100% polyester t-shirt sheds an estimated 700,000 fibers per wash. Fleece sheds 1.7 million. Cotton, linen, hemp, wool, and Tencel shed zero plastic.

Gen Z buyers are picking up on it

First Insight (2024): 73% of Gen Z apparel buyers say they'll pay a premium for sustainable apparel. McKinsey's State of Fashion shows sustainability-led searches up 30% YoY.

The brands that ride this wave first own the language. The brands that wait are the ones explaining themselves in 2027.

EU PFAS restrictions phase in 2025–2027

If you sell anywhere in the EU and your supplier's outerwear has PFAS-treated DWR (it probably does, by default), you have a compliance clock running. More on this here.

Get to the catalog

→ Browse plastic-free blanks

Or browse the full catalog, filter by country, manufacturer, GSM, or print method. Every product has its composition, Health Impact grade, and (where we have it) wholesale price logged.

What this is not

• Not a marketplace. We don't sell blanks. We score and filter them.
• Not a certification. We're an independent rating layer; existing certifications (OEKO-TEX, GOTS, GRS) are noted where we have them.
• Not perfect data. We document our limitations openly — see methodology and the full limitations doc.

How to use FabricIQ in your storefront

1. Pick your category. T-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, hats, bags. Filter /blanks by category.
2. Toggle Plastic-Free Only. The catalog narrows to fabrics that don't shed microplastics.
3. Sort by Health Impact. The cleanest options bubble to the top.
4. Compare GSM, country, price. Pick the SKU that fits your margin and your story.
5. Connect to your POD platform. Most of these blanks are available on Printful, Printify, or direct from the manufacturer. We link out where we can.

Niche topic guides

Specific stories your audience may search for:

• Plastic-free clothing: stop wearing synthetic fibers
• PFAS-free jackets and outerwear
• Synthetic-free activewear (merino, Tencel)
• Plastic-free baby clothing
• Plastic-free underwear

Methodology, openly documented

Every score in our catalog comes from a deterministic engine — same input, same output, every time. No AI guessing.

• How we score Health Impact
• Full methodology white paper
• Citation list (peer-reviewed papers + regulatory filings)

Building a brand around fabric transparency?We'd love to talk. We're early — happy to give the first wave of POD founders direct API access, custom data feeds, and our help positioning the story.→ Get in touch