Hessian — sometimes still called burlap in the American market — is the broad-shoulder workhorse of the jute industry. Woven from a single staple yarn in a plain over-and-under pattern, it carries the produce of half the world's farms, lines packaging that has to breathe, and backs craft and industrial goods across five continents.
What looks like one fabric is, on the mill floor, a spectrum. A 290 g/m² craft-grade roll handed to a florist behaves nothing like a 1100 g/m² industrial backing fed into a composite line. Every working weight in between is a different mill, a different porter count, often a different loom shed. The trader's job is to know which mill is set up for which weight this season — and to ship samples that prove it before the container books.
What we do for you
Buyer-spec sourcing is our reason for existing. You tell us the GSM band, the width, the finish, and the destination port; we go to the mill that runs that combination in volume, pull a physical swatch, ship it for your approval, and only then book the container. Specification approved on a swatch — not an emailed spec sheet — eliminates the most common cause of dispute on jute shipments.
For food-adjacent shipments we route through bleached-hessian mills with documented hygiene practice. Dyed hessian and custom widths are available on request, subject to minimum-order quantities at the mill level.
