Reading a yarn lot sheet
What count CV, CSP, U% and imperfections tell you about how a yarn will run.
Mill-direct yarn for knitters and weavers · Minimum order 1 tonne · Despatch from Salem
SF 118/2, Omalur Main Road, Karuppur, Salem 636012
Office Mon–Sat · 9 am – 6 pm · mill runs 24 hours
Spinning and weaving · Salem · since 1991
Combed, carded and dyed cotton yarn from Ne 20s to 80s, and grey fabric from our own looms. A lot sheet with our own readings travels with every lot.

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Prices follow the cotton market. Quotes are valid for 7 days.
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Ilavam began in 1991 with 6,000 spindles on the Omalur road. Today we run 62,400 spindles and 48 airjet looms, buy cotton bale by bale from Gujarat and Telangana, and test every lot before it leaves the gate.
Count, quantity, end use and delivery month.
Cones or a swatch with a lot sheet in 5 days.
Ex-mill despatch with lot-wise sheets.

Our buyers visit ginneries from October to March and check staple length and micronaire on every lot. Ask for the cotton report with your quote.
Talk to our teamReviews
Sample reviews, written for this demo. Real customer reviews replace them on your store.
Their 40s combed runs clean on our knitting machines. One complaint in three years, and they replaced the lot within a week.
We buy chambray every season. The shade matches the approved dip, roll after roll.
Quotes come back the same day, and the lot sheet is in the bag with the cones.
One tonne for grey yarn, 500 kg a shade for dyed yarn and 2,000 m for fabric. We run smaller trial lots once a quarter.
Yes. We courier 2–4 cones or a 1 m fabric swatch with a lot sheet, free within India, in about 5 working days.
Yarn prices follow the cotton market, so quotes hold for 7 days. Contract buyers can fix a price for a month at a time.
Yes. Organic cotton, and cotton–modal and cotton–polyester blends, from 3 tonnes an order.
Journal
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Why yarn prices move between October and March, and how to plan around it.
Send the count, blend and quantity. Our sales desk replies the same working day.