What is a quilted cotton hooded towel and how is it different from terry?
This is a hooded baby towel made from quilted cotton knit, not from terry. Quilted cotton is two layers of knit fabric stitched together in a diamond pattern with a light fill between them, which gives the towel loft and softness without the loop pile of a terry towel. Terry absorbs by holding water in its loops; quilted knit absorbs into the cotton itself and dries flat. The practical difference for a baby is that a quilted towel has no loops to snag on a fingernail or to shed lint onto wet skin, and it is lighter across a small body than a terry towel of the same size. The hood is a triangular corner panel stitched onto the square, so the towel goes over the baby's head first and wraps from there.
Why does 24 by 26 inches work as a baby wrap dimension?
The towel is 24 inches by 26 inches, with the hood on one corner. Laid flat, that is large enough to cover a baby from hood to feet with enough overlap to wrap and hold, and small enough to fold into a bag or lie flat on a changing table without hanging over the edge. A larger towel gives the parent fabric to manage while holding a wet baby; a smaller one does not reach the feet. This size is the one that wraps a baby fully in a single motion after a bath, which is what the hood corner is for: head covered first, body wrapped second, one towel doing both jobs.
How do five different hood prints change the display?
The pack ships in five colours and each colour carries a different printed character on the hood: a bear on one, a rabbit on another, a butterfly, a sailboat and a fifth design, one per colour. This is five designs, not one design in five colours. On a shelf the pack reads as five separate products rather than as one towel in five shades, so a retailer with room for five display pieces shows five different things from one SKU. The print sits on the hood corner only. The body of the towel is plain quilted cotton in the base colour, so the character is visible when the towel is folded with the hood corner facing out, which is how it displays and how it is handed over.
Why does a hooded towel belong on a baby clothing counter?
A parent who has just bought a newborn set at the counter is standing there with a bath in their near future. A hooded towel is the adjacent item that closes at the same counter without a separate trip to a linen shop, and it closes at a higher unit price than most of the clothing sets on the same shelf. Retailer markup on this towel runs 70 to 110 percent. Each towel is packed in its own poly cover, so it stacks on a shelf or hangs from a hook without the quilting picking up dust. For a shop that sells baby clothing and nothing else, this is the one non-garment line that sells to the same buyer at the same moment. The store-wide minimum order value is Rs. 2,000.
What should a buyer check on a quilted hooded towel?
Check the edge. A quilted towel is finished with a bound or scalloped overlock edge on all four sides and around the hood, and that edge is what stops the two layers from separating in the wash. Check that the hood corner is stitched down along both of its edges, not tacked at the tip. Check that the quilting stitch runs continuous across the whole square, because a broken quilt line lets the fill migrate. Check that the print on the hood is applied to the outer face only, so the inner face against the baby's head is plain cotton. Every towel in the pack is inspected on those four points before it goes into its poly cover.
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