Contract hospitality buyers — hotels, hospitals, and institutional facilities — typically specify performance standards such as tensile strength, colorfastness, and laundering durability that exceed retail product requirements. They also require consistent lot-to-lot color matching across large orders, which places greater demands on supplier quality systems and makes switching sources mid-contract operationally risky.

All textile articles subject to the Textile Fiber Products Identification Act, including curtains and linens, must be labeled with the country where the fabric was cut and sewn into its final form. If the article is substantially transformed in a second country, that country is the country of origin for marking purposes — not the country where the fiber or fabric was produced.