Six-panel
Structured and unstructured, low or high crown, curved or flat visor.
Lishui · Nanhai · Foshan · Guangdong
With roots dating back to 1968, Mei Fai Hats brings nearly six decades of specialised headwear manufacturing to the global market. Across generations the company has grown from a traditional factory into a modern headwear platform, combining craftsmanship, technical development, scalable production and global brand experience.
Development runs of a few hundred through seasonal programmes in the tens of thousands — the same benches sew both.




01 — Silhouette
Crown height, panel count, how much structure sits behind the front panel, how far the peak curves — these decide whether a cap reads sport, workwear or fashion, long before any logo goes on it. Fifty-eight years of pattern books sit in this building; if a shape has been made before we have the block, and if it hasn’t, our pattern room drafts it.
Structured and unstructured, low or high crown, curved or flat visor.
Camp caps and clean-front five-panels, with or without a taped inner seam.
Short-brim, three-panel, mesh or cotton twill. Small runs are normal here.
Foam or twill front with mesh back, plastic or metal snap closure.
Reversible, quilted, drawcord, wide-brim. Lined or fully seam-bound.
Eight-panel, baker boy, newsboy — the constructions that need real sewers.
Fedora and safari shapes in felt, canvas and straw-look wovens.
Send a sample or a sketch. We pattern it, sample it, and tell you honestly what it costs to run well.
02 — Embroidery & applications
Most factories send embroidery out. We never have — the digitiser sits a floor away from the sewing line, so a correction happens the same day instead of the following week. Work that needs a specialist plant — injection-moulded PVC, garment washing and dyeing, laser cutting, woven and leather trims — goes to partners we have used for years, all within an hour of the factory. We specify them, we inspect the work when it comes back, and it lands on our QC report rather than on your desk. One purchase order, one company answering for the result. The caps alongside are ours — M, F and H in raised script, sewn here as a house sample, because the quickest way to show what a stitch looks like is to make it.









03 — Materials
Swatches below are photographed at actual weave. Beyond them we hold a working library across naturals, wools, technical shells and certified recycled bases — and our sourcing team will chase a cloth we don't already carry. Colour matched to your Pantone or a submitted swatch, with lab dips before bulk.








04 — Track record
Almost everything we make carries somebody else’s label and stays theirs, so we don’t publish a client list. What we can describe is the standard. The accounts that shaped this factory audited us on colour to a sealed standard, on stitch count, on social compliance, and on whether a first sample could be repeated a hundred thousand times without drift.
Customer names withheld by agreement. If you need references, we will ask the accounts we can ask and introduce you directly — which is worth more than a wall of logos anyway.
The programmes that lasted did not start large. They started with one style, a few hundred pieces and a development conversation, and grew because the bulk kept matching the sample. We would rather begin small with a brand that intends to build than take one large order and never hear from you again — and the same benches, patterns and embroidery heads carry you the whole way up.
Produced under OEM agreement · Brands listed with permission
Archive — Lishui, 2003
Twenty years ago this site ran thousands of people and millions of units a year. We kept the buildings, the pattern books and a core of the sewers who trained here. What changed is the kind of order we take — and the amount of attention each one gets.
The Lishui site · 2003


05 — What we can show you
Almost everything that leaves this factory belongs to somebody else and stays theirs. Fan Ink is the exception: a premium headwear brand under the same ownership, developed and made here, sold through Lids, Urban Outfitters and Fanatics. Everything on this page is Fan Ink’s own product, shown with its permission — and the reason you won’t find anyone else’s work on this site.
Multi-colour appliqué patch · wool crown · printed cotton bandana


Fan Ink also runs its own patented closure hardware, developed alongside our engineering. When a customer needs a fastening that doesn’t exist yet, this is the bench that builds it.
06 — How a project runs
Every stage has a name, an owner and a date. Timings below are typical for a first-time style; repeats move faster.
We read the pack, flag what won't work, and quote against a real construction rather than a guess.
2–4 daysBlock drafted or adapted, sample sewn on production machines by production sewers.
10–14 daysLab dips, trim cards and embroidery sew-outs on the final body fabric.
7–14 daysSealed sample signed off both ends. Nothing enters bulk before this exists.
7–10 daysIn-line and final AQL inspection, third-party audits welcome, packed to your spec.
45–60 days07 — The factory
Cutting, sewing, embroidery, finishing and packing run under one roof, on land the family has held since the beginning. The people are the part that took longest to build: sewers who have been at the same bench since the nineties and can close an eight-panel crown or set a taped seam by feel. That depth is why we can quote constructions other factories decline.

Visits are welcome. Guangzhou Baiyun and Shenzhen Bao'an airports are both within comfortable driving distance, and the Hong Kong office can travel with you.
Arrange a visit08 — Contact
Tell us the construction, the quantity and the delivery date. You'll get a straight answer on whether we're the right factory for it — including when we're not.
sales@meifaihats.com15/F, Millennium City 3
370 Kwun Tong Road
Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
+852 3902 2888
Foshan Nanhai Li Shui Mei Fai Hats Mfg. Co. Ltd.
Qifeng Industrial Zone, Lishui, Nanhai, Foshan
Guangdong 528244, China
廣東省佛山市南海區里水鎮旗峰工業區
+86 757 0000 0000
Mei Fai Hats International Manufacturing Company Limited — Hong Kong
Foshan Nanhai Li Shui Mei Fai Hats Mfg. Co. Ltd. — China