Our Story
A third generation family business in East Africa - built where cotton grows to manufacture from fiber to garment.
Why here
Uganda grows good cotton. The fibre is long-stapled, around 28.5mm, grown without irrigation and picked by hand.
For decades almost all of it left the country as raw lint, was spun and sewn elsewhere, and came back as clothing at many times the price.
Fine Spinners was set up to keep those steps here. The mill sits on Spring Road in Bugolobi, Kampala, about 350km from the cotton fields of Kasese. It spins yarn, knits and weaves fabric, dyes and finishes it, prints and embroiders, makes its own sewing thread, and cuts and sews garments. All of it on one site.
The result is a shorter chain than most buyers are used to. Fewer companies to audit. Fewer border crossings. Fewer weeks between a fabric approval and a shipment.
It is also value that stays in the country. A bale of lint sold abroad pays a farmer and a ginner. The same bale turned into finished garments here pays a spinner, a knitter, a dyer, a cutter, a machinist, a packer and a driver as well.
Our Mission
Make textiles and apparel of a quality that competes internationally, at a cost that works, by using the plant fully and adding value at every step.
In practice that means five commitments we hold ourselves to: partnerships that work both ways, value for money, consistency from order to order, service you cannot get from a broker, and a sourcing experience that is different from the one you are used to.
