Fabmania Ltd, 100% U.K. manufactured Elastic cords, shoelaces, braided and woven products

Fabmania Ltd produces a vast range styles of laces, shoelaces, bootlaces, trainer laces. These laces are available in wholesale quantities for the U.K and for export around the world (approximately 50% of our lace production is exported).

Our "made to order" flexible production capacity, short lead-times and low overhead structure enable us to offer our customers a great deal and buying from a U. K. supplier with good communication can make Fabmania Ltd the best option.

With around 45 years of expertise in narrow fabric textile manufacturing in Leicestershire. Friendly help and technical advice is available with any products you may need to source.

Our main production is boot and shoelaces, detailed below. Outline details of other products we manufacture can be found using the links on the left of this page.

New ! If you just need a pair of replacement laces, visit the buy on line pages where you will find a wide selection of both popular and unusual designs and colours.

Boot and shoelaces -

One of the widest ranges of braided boot and shoelace styles available. We offer a made to order service where at there is at least 500 metres of braid required. For smaller requirements right down to a couple of pairs of replacement laces please refer to our buy on line pages

Sizes manufactured from around 2mm shoelaces up to 40mm wide flat crazy laces.

Wide range of options. We can manufacture virtually any design of laces, for shoes, boots, trainers, skates. Our full range has over 500 designs, This wide range of styles can be produced from a wide range of yarn types including polyester, nylon, polypropylene, cotton (organic and regular), kevlar, glow in the dark. In addition the yarn can be dyed to any required colour (minimum quantities apply). The design range, yarn and colour options give an almost unlimited number of combinations.

Short lead times. Most laces are produced from textured polyester yarn. We hold stocks of around 60 standard pre-dyed colours, so production of a customer order can usually start without delay. Most orders for shoelaces are completed in around 2 weeks.

Low minimum quantities. The manufacture of bootlaces is a two stage process, first the yarn has to be prepared for production onto bobbins, the braiding machine is set to produce the desired pattern, after the braiding production, the cord or braid is cut to length and acetate strip is applied to the ends on specialized equipment. On a typical braid 500 metres is considered a minimum order, this 500 metres would represent approximately 250 pairs of laces at 100cm length.

Stock range. Buy on line two pairs (or more) of replacement laces available in numerous styles and colour ways. The range includes many designs which are difficult to find in retail stores. view buy on line range

Printing. Braid can be printed using thermal transfer printing to create laces for promotional purposes. The printing process we use creates a totally permanent result, the laces can be repeatedly tied and untied, washed etc without any deterioration in the print quality. The chequerboard design shown is a recent printed belt webbing for M&S.

Laces banded with a paper wrapper. The Solace™ range offers a low cost standard range of products for shoes, boots trainers and football boots. The laces can be supplied in our own brand, or subject to minimums you can have the laces wrapped in a label of your own design. (minimum number of wrappers 5,000 of one design)

Card banded laces. As an alternative to a paper wrapper, we can supply laces in a card. The card is made from 100% recycled board. The shape of the card offers a much bigger print area to create a marketing message than a paper wrapper.

Blister packs. Laces can be supplied in blister packs. The design can be for a single pair in a pack, or can be multi pack dispenser packs.

Card hangers. An attractive way to hang laces in a detail display. This is the lowest cost option for presenting laces for retail display. The board is made from re-cycled paper and has plenty of space to include a logo and other information.

Laceace™ This is a completely new product offered in conjunction with Dx2 concepts Ltd. It enables laces to be tied and securely held in place on any type of footwear without the need to tie a knot. Laceace can be purchased on line by the pair. Enquiries welcome for bulk orders.

Lacelink™ This product enables the length of laces to be neatly adjusted to the ideal length. also two laces can be converted into one lace so if a bootlace was needed at 300cm length, the Laceace can create this from two 150cm laces. The product also enables the user to have two colour laces in one shoe.