Banswara Syntex is a real mill rather than a brand, and that is the reason it is on this page. R. L. Toshniwal set up a spinning operation at Banswara in Rajasthan in 1976, and the company grew into a vertically integrated textile business: spinning, weaving, dyeing and finishing, plus a garment operation. It added worsted spinning in 2008. If you want to know whether an Indian house actually makes its cloth, the question to ask is whether it spins its own yarn. This one does.
Banswara, 1976
The company was incorporated in 1976, when R. L. Toshniwal built a spinning mill at Banswara, a town in southern Rajasthan not otherwise known for textiles. It grew from there rather than by acquisition, which is the less glamorous route and the one that tends to produce better cloth.
Today it spins synthetic blended yarn and wool and wool-mixed yarn, weaves fabric across a wide range, runs jacquard furnishing cloth and technical fabric, and makes garments. Worsted spinning came in 2008.
Wool, worsted and blends
What interests us is the wool and worsted end. Because the mill spins its own yarn, it controls the blend and the twist rather than buying in and hoping, and that shows up as consistency across a bolt.
The book covers wool, wool-blend and poly-viscose suiting in a wide weight range. For Chennai the lighter wool blends are the sensible part of it.
When we open Banswara
For a customer who wants to know exactly what they are buying, Banswara is satisfying to explain: this is the yarn, this is the blend, this is the mill that made both.
We open it for wool-blend suiting in the working weights, and for larger orders where consistency across many metres matters more than anything else.
Banswara cloth is available to order through us.