Highsun Fabric Market

Whilst every foreigner is crazy about Hoi An, a fabric town in Vietnam, few know about the Guangzhou Highsun Fabric Market（海印布匹市场） — where you can pick the material you want and get custom made shirts, business suits, beddings and curtains for a tenth of the cost that you would get it for in most of the western countries. You can get fabric of sundry materials and patterns that can be imagined, of course, of different grades of quality.

Not like Hoi An, where almost every shop provides selling and tailoring at the same time, here, most of the shops are specialized for cloth selling or tailoring, which makes them more professional in the particular service. Labels of production place are tagged, as well as the price, so you don’t need to worry about the hassling bargain, but they will lower the price if you buy more, and the wholesale price is about 60% of the retail one.

It’s interesting to find some semi-processed clothes on the dummy model that allow you to supplement the rest according to your preference. You can also have tailors design and process the materials you bring. The handwork ranges from about $20 to more than $105(would be really nice and decent)，according to the complicity, texture and pattern. As China like combining different elements into a hub, don’t be surprised if a tag reads “Australian wool, Italian style, and made in China” is found.

Many of the curtain shops sell the textures and process the curtains for free. Multifarious styles of curtains can be found there, the classical one in elegant color and design, the modern one such as double curtain, and the folded one in oriental style. You can choose the textures and have them process in a shop, and you just have to pay the textures and the accessories. A set of (2m*2m) medium grade jacquard fabric curtain, with the lace and other ornaments, is about $16. You may have a better price when you buy more. The wholesale price is also around 60% of the retail one.

Highsun fabric market is must-go on your exploring list if you are a fabric wholesaler, a tourist or you just drop in! By the way, it’s closed to the Dashatou Port (大沙头码头), where you can enjoy a tour on the Pearl River by yacht (珠江夜游) at night.

Transportation:
Bus number: 12, 131A, 18, 194, 238, 248, 57, 89, Yanjiang Dong Station (沿江东路站)　　　　　　

61, 101, 104, 128, Haiyin Terminal Station（海印总站）

Restaurant:

French Cusine　　　　　La SeineThis outdoor restaurant takes about 5 minutes by taxi from the market. (Daily 11am-2:30pm, 5pm-midnight, all cards, tel. 87352531/87352222 ext 888) G/F, Xinghai Concert Hall, 33 Qingbo Lu, Ersha Island 　　　　　German Cuisine1920 Restaurant: It’ll take you about 10 minutes by taxi from the market. (Daily 11am-2am, all cards) 183 Yanjiang Zhong Lu 　　　　　McDonald Dashatou 3rd Road, on the 2nd floor of Haiyin Electronic Product Plaza

Tips:

1.Please be sure of the exact cloth you buy before you ask the shopkeepers to have it cut.

2.Please check the accessories of the curtains before you order it.

3.Remember to enquire the delivery date before transaction, because it may vary.