Publish Date: September 2026
Updated Tariff & Recession Risk Analysis and Forecasts
The 2026 Ribbon & Embroidery Manufacturing Market Report covers the $822.9 million industry which operates with specialized production capabilities serving both decorative and functional applications across diverse end markets including apparel, home furnishings, and packaging. Competitive structure includes specialized manufacturers focused on particular embellishment technologies alongside vertically integrated textile companies with decorative divisions. Market demands increasingly emphasize material quality, design sophistication, and specialized performance attributes beyond purely decorative functions. Manufacturers face significant challenges balancing specialized equipment optimization, design capabilities, inventory management across diverse SKUs, and tariff considerations affecting both material imports and finished product exports. Successful companies differentiate through proprietary design capabilities, specialized production techniques creating distinctive appearances, custom manufacturing flexibility, and increasingly digital integration streamlining design-to-production processes in a niche sector where design capabilities, production quality, and customer service significantly influence competitive positioning.
Ribbon & Embroidery Manufacturing Industry Description
Ribbon & Embroidery Manufacturing produces narrow woven textiles and decorative embellished fabrics for apparel, crafts, packaging, and decorative applications. Companies create specialized narrow fabrics and add decorative patterns to base fabrics through controlled stitching operations. Manufacturing processes include narrow fabric weaving on specialized looms, embroidery on multi-head machines with computer-controlled stitching, and finishing operations that create decorative textile products. These businesses serve apparel manufacturers, craft suppliers, packaging companies, and industrial users. The industry continuously improves design capabilities, production efficiency, and increasingly focuses on customization, digital design integration, and specialized technical narrow fabrics that combine decorative elements with functional performance characteristics for diverse applications.
NAICS Code: 31322
Number of Companies: 158
Number of Plants / Facilities: 172
Total Employees: 5,242
Market Size: $0.8 billion
TARIFF IMPACT (Summer 2025 – Download Report for Updated Analysis)
This report has in-depth analysis on the recent US tariff changes on material costs, quantifying import dependencies, tariff exposure rates, and key source countries for the ribbon & embroidery manufacturing sector.
Estimated Tariff Cost: $60 million
Relative Tariff Impact: SEVERE
Ribbon & Embroidery Manufacturing Report Format
The 2026 U.S. Ribbon & Embroidery Manufacturing Market Report is 63 pages of deep insights into the trends, dynamics, and forecasts shaping the industry. Professionals leverage this market report to develop a deep understanding of the market for business strategy, planning, forecasting, benchmarking, industry analysis, valuations, identifying organizational inefficiencies, financial analysis, and more.
With more than one hundred industry analyses and data sets covering trends from 2017 to 2025 and forecasts for 2026 and 2030, this report is one of the comprehensive assessments of the industry. The report includes revenue & cost trends, in-depth OPEX analysis on 26 categories, extensive financial analysis, forecasts on 100+ data sets, plant inventory analysis, composition of balance sheets, segmentation by business size and structure, industry concentration analysis, material costs analysis, profitability metrics, state statistics, plant utilization, employee role analysis, 4 years of inflation analysis, employee pay analysis, employee productivity benchmarks, and more.
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Report Table of Contents
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The data source for the report is extensive annual expense, revenue, wage, operational, and economic surveys administered by federal and private institutions and filled out by a majority of companies in the ribbon & embroidery manufacturing industry. The forecasts in the report are modeled by our research analysts using the latest economic forecasts, industry analysis, and historical trends.
1-2 – Market Report Overview & Contents
3 – Market Overview
– Data Sources & Methodology
– Sector Definition & Examples
– Market Commentary
4 – Report Synopsis – Revenue & Growth
5 – Report Synopsis – Costs & Profitability
SECTION ONE
REVENUE & GROWTH
7 – Market Size Details
– Industry Revenues, Companies, & Facilities
– Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
8 – Growth Benchmarks
– Sales per Company and Plant
– Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
9 – Product Lines Revenue
10 – BCG Matrix – Income vs. Revenue Growth
11 – Total Industry Sales by Month & Year (2021-2025)
12 – Inventory Value by Month & Year (2021-2025)
13 – Months of Inventory (2021-2025)
14 – Sector Revenue by Segments
– Business Concentration, Size, & Structure
15 – Market Size by State
– Market Size and Rankings
16 – Market Size as a % of State GDP
17 – Sales as a % of State Manufacturing
18 – Market Segmentation by Business Size
19 – Market Segmentation by Business Size
– Business Size Segments – 1-4, 5-9, 10-20, 21-50, 51-100, 101-250, & 250+ employees
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
20 – Segmentation by Concentration (Top 50 Companies)
– Concentration Segments – Top 4, 5-8, 9-20, & 21-50 companies
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
21 – Market Share of Top 50 Companies
22 – Subsector Market Share of Top 50 Companies
23 – Segmentation by Business Structure
– Business Structure Segments – C-Corporations, S-Corporations, Partnerships, & Sole Proprietorships
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
24 – Revenue per Company by State
25 – Revenue per Company by Segments
26 – Revenue per Facility by State
27 – Revenue per Facility by Segment
28 – Subsector Market Size & Growth
29 – Subsector Sales per Company & Plant
30 – 5-Year Consolidation Analysis
31 – Employment Consolidation Analysis
32 – Subsector Consolidation Analysis
– Number of Companies & Facilities
33 – Subsector Consolidation Analysis
– Facilities & Employees per Company
COST, CAPITAL & FINANCIALS
35 – Profitability & Financial Ratio Analysis
Page 36 – Balance Sheet Metrics
– Assets and Liabilities indexed to industry revenue at 100
– 16 Current & Non-Current Assets Categories
– 15 Short-term, Long-term Liabilities, & Net Worth
37 – OPEX
– Industry OPEX Analysis
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
38 – OPEX by Company & Plant
– OPEX per Company & Plant
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
Page 39 – OPEX Detail
– 6 Employee Expense Categories
– 8 Cost of Material Categories
– 6 Buildings and Equipment Categories
– 8 Other Operating Expense Categories
-Inventory Breakdown: finished goods, work-in-progress, materials and supplies
40 – Production Material Costs & Tariff Analysis
– Top Production Material Costs Breakdown
– Industry & Material Tariff Analysis – % of costs, import %, tariff costs, source countries
41 – Producer Pricing Index
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
– Monthly PPI Figures for the Past 4 Years
42 – Plant Utilization & Hours
– Plant Utilization Rate
– Plant Operational Hours per Week
– 2022-2025 Historical Figures by Quarter
43 – Reasons for Non-Full Production
– 7 Categories Quarterly Survey Results for Past 2 Years
44 – Productivity & Employment
– Revenue per Employee
– Total Number of Employees
– Employees per Company
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
45 – Employee Productivity by Segments
46 – Employee Productivity by State
47 –Subsector Sales & Payroll per Employee
48 – Payroll
– Payroll per Employee, Company, & Plant
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
49 – Payroll per Company by Segments
50 – Payroll per Plant by Segments
51 – Payroll per Employee by Segments
52 – Payroll per Employee by State
53 – Employee Composition
– % of Employees for 27 Job Categories
54 – Job Categorization Pay Ranges
– Pay Bands – Bottom 10% & 25%, Mean, Top 25% & 10%
55 – Top 20 Jobs Breakdown
56 – Top 20 Jobs Pay
– Pay Bands
57 – Employees per Company by Segments
58 – Employees per Plant by Segments
59 – Facilities per Company by Segments
60 – Total Employment by State
61 – Population to Every Employee by State
62 – Employees per Facility by State
63 – Overview of Kentley Insights
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Product Lines, Materials, and Jobs Covered in Report
PRODUCT LINES
Narrow fabrics (12 inches or less in width), woven
Covered rubber thread, made in narrow fabric mills
Narrow fabrics (12 inches or less in width), braided
Narrow fabric mills and Schiffli machine embroidery, nsk, total
Schiffli machine embroideries
MATERIAL COST CATEGORIES
Yarns, excluding acrylic
Woven textile fabrics, including broadwoven and narrow fabrics
Materials, ingredients, containers, and supplies, nsk
Cost of all other materials and components, parts, containers, and supplies consumed
Fabricated rubber products, excluding tires, hose, belting, and gaskets
Nonwoven textile fabrics, including knits, felts, etc.
INDUSTRY JOBS ANALYZED
Textile Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
Miscellaneous Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers
Industrial Machinery Installation, Repair, and Maintenance Workers
Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
Laborers and Material Movers, Hand
Miscellaneous Production Workers
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
Sewing Machine Operators
Shipping, Receiving, and Traffic Clerks
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing
General and Operations Managers
Industrial Engineers, Including Health and Safety
Industrial Production Managers
Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators
Office Clerks, General
Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
Customer Service Representatives
Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders
Stock Clerks and Order Fillers
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