Abaya Manufacturer for US Brands & Boutiques

Across the US enquiries we receive, the retail prices brands plan to sell at run from about $40 to $250 a piece, with most falling between $75 and $150. Brands at the top of that range are almost always asking for velvet, lace, embroidery or beading; brands at the lower end want clean everyday cuts in nida, crêpe or linen.

A practical starting point is to plan production at around half of your retail price, leaving the other half for shipping, duty, marketing and margin. We quote every design individually, because fabric choice moves the cost more than anything else — the same silhouette can be made across our fabric tiers, from the most premium fabrics available in the region down to upper-mid, so it lands at the price your market needs.

These are the requests that come up again and again from US brands. We cut to your specification, so any of them can be built into your designs:

Ramadan 2027 is expected to begin in early February 2027, and US brands sell most of their year in the weeks before it and before Eid. Working backwards: delivery to the US takes 10–15 days, production takes 1–3 weeks after you approve your sample, and you will want stock in hand for photography and pre-orders before the season starts.

In practice that means confirming designs with us by early December 2026 to have stock by mid-January 2027. Brands that want to test a design first, then reorder the winners before Ramadan, should start in November.

The buyer is the importer of record. Since the US suspended its $800 de minimis exemption in 2025, commercial shipments no longer enter duty-free because of their value — budget for duty on every wholesale order, however small. The rate depends on the product's classification, so we do not publish one here; US Customs and Border Protection is the authority, and we will quote you a landed cost for your order.

We ship door to door by express courier, and the courier handles the customs entry for you and bills any duty. For most small brands that is far simpler than arranging freight and a broker themselves.

Everything is done remotely, and most of it over WhatsApp. Our video calls run in US mornings and early afternoons, Eastern Time.

The abaya is a Gulf garment, and the UAE is where its craft is concentrated: pattern cutters who understand how the back drape falls, hand-finishers for lace, stones and embroidery, and markets stocked with the fabrics abayas are actually made from, such as Korean nida and Saudi crêpe. General garment factories are rarely set up for abaya-specific cutting and finishing.

And because we make every order in our own atelier, we can work at small-brand quantities — 8 pieces per design — rather than the large runs a typical factory needs before it will cut.