For specifiers
Surfaces by backing and where each one goes, the documents a tender asks for, and installed work to look at. Start with the six surfaces, then the application closest to your project.
Since 2002 · Woven vinyl for aesthetics
Woven Vinyl Surfaces from Wall to Floor, and on to Furniture
We make woven vinyl with the look and feel of a natural fibre, and finish it ourselves for floors, walls and furniture. Yarn, weaving, coating, backing, finishing and testing all happen at our own production base in Zhejiang, China.
Sample book patterns are held in stock and ship in as little as 2–3 weeks.
Three ways to work with us
Specifying a project, or stocking the range? The two routes ask different questions, so they are answered separately.
For importers and distributors
Trade terms in one table: minimums, lead times, container loading, FOB Shanghai and private label. Written for a buyer building a range, not for a single project.
For contractors
Installation, seaming, adhesive and maintenance: the method statements and the numbers an installer works to on site.
What is woven vinyl?
Woven vinyl starts as vinyl-coated yarn. The yarn is woven into a textile on a loom, in the way furnishing fabric is woven, then coated, finished and bonded to a backing. The pattern comes from the weave and from two-tone yarn rather than from a printed film, so the surface keeps a textile grain and the colour runs through the fibre. The face is 1.0 mm of woven vinyl on a core of high-tenacity polyester as standard, or fibreglass where a wider seamless run or more dimensional stability is needed. Backings change with the product line: 3.0 mm PVC foam for rolled flooring, 2.2 to 2.5 mm vinyl with fibreglass and acoustic felt for tiles, and PET non-woven for wallcovering. The result behaves like a resilient floor and reads like a woven textile. Cleaning is vinyl work, a vacuum or a damp mop, with no waxing. Specification is textile work: colour, weave and reference numbers.
Six woven vinyl surfaces
Six lines, one material. The woven face is the same across all of them, so what changes is the backing and the format, and those two decide where the surface can go. Rolled flooring and floormats take a 3.0 mm PVC foam backing and are bonded and cold-welded on site. Acoustic modular carpet is die-cut into tiles from a 2.2 to 2.5 mm vinyl backing with fibreglass and a felt layer, so a damaged piece lifts out and goes back in the same afternoon. Wallcovering hangs on PET non-woven with a 1.0 mm woven face. Upholstery is the bare fabric, optionally on a 1 mm vinyl cushion. The customers are distributors, architects, interior designers and flooring contractors, and the specification route is the same whichever line they start from: a data sheet, a fire class and a fastness report.
Wall to Wall Flooring
Woven vinyl wall to wall flooring with the look and texture of a textile carpet and the easy care of vinyl, laid wall to wall over the subfloor with the seams cold-welded. The 3.0 mm vinyl cushion backing cuts impact noise by ΔLw 21 dB.
Acoustic Modular Carpet
Woven vinyl acoustic tiles, die-cut as squares, planks, or customer shapes. A 2.2–2.5 mm vinyl backing with fibreglass and acoustic felt brings the tile to 3.20–3.50 mm, and takes the edge off impact noise. Face yarn comes on a high-tenacity polyester core as standard; specify a fibreglass core to keep loose fibre off the cut edge and the surface.
Wallcovering
Woven vinyl wallcovering. A woven textile face on a vinyl build: wipe it clean and it keeps its colour in corridors and guest rooms. It shrugs off scuffs and scrubbing, does not soak up moisture, and hangs without marking the face. No mould, no seam lifting or curling, no yellowing.
Furniture Upholstery
Woven vinyl upholstery in vinyl-coated PET yarn, for contract and residential seating: office chairs, banquettes, benches and headboards. It can be sewn or HF-welded, and welding gives a flat seam with no stitch line. Tensile, tearing, burst and Martindale results are on the data sheet.
Wall Upholstery
Woven vinyl wall upholstery for panels, headboards and feature walls. Same face as the furniture line, on a PET non-woven backing where it hangs, or a 1 mm PVC foam backing where the wall takes contact. It wipes clean where a painted wall would show every mark.
Floormats and Runners
texlymat® floormats, runners and rugs are finished pieces in woven vinyl with a high-tenacity polyester core: cut and finished with a bound edge or self binding. UV-stabilised and hose-cleanable, so they can stay outside on patios and balconies and come back inside for entrances, hallways, kitchens and bars. Made to order as mats, runners and area rugs.
Featured weave collections
Eighteen collections are published, from bamboo and basket weaves to herringbone, slub and stripe. A collection is a weave, not a product, which is why most of them run across several lines: the same weave can be specified as wall to wall flooring, as acoustic tiles, as wallcovering or as upholstery, and the room reads as one surface. Each collection page lists its colourways with reference numbers, because a reference is what a quote and an order are built on. Colour is solution-dyed into the yarn rather than printed, so the weave carries a two-tone grain and each production run has its own quiet variation. Twelve of the collections are stock qualities, which means no minimum order and shipping in 2 to 3 weeks.
2026 NEW
The newest texlyweave® patterns, gathered into the 2026 collection.
BAMBOO
A fine vertical weave that echoes the look of natural bamboo.
GRID
A crisp square grid for clean, architectural surfaces.
HERRINGBONE
Classic herringbone weave in a fine vinyl yarn.
SLUB
Slub yarns give this weave its relaxed, linen-like character.
How does it compare with LVT and carpet tile?
A contract floor is usually chosen from those three. What settles the question is the list of things that will fail first in the building, and how each material handles that failure.
| Question | Woven vinyl | LVT | Carpet tile |
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| Where the look comes from | Weave and two-tone yarn, no printed film | Printed decorative film | Pile and yarn colour |
| Format | Roll 200 cm (±1%), or tiles 50×50 and 100×100 cm | Plank or tile | Tile |
| Impact noise | ΔLw 21 dB on the construction tested (4.1 mm, BS EN ISO 10140-3, SATRA report 4343-3975) | Depends on backing and underlay | Depends on backing |
| Airborne absorption | αw 0.05, not categorised (EN ISO 354) | Low | Generally higher, ask for product data |
| Water on the surface | Vinyl, joints closed when cold-welded | Vinyl | Needs attention quickly |
| Replacing one damaged area | Lift a tile, or cut out and re-weld a roll | Lift a tile | Lift a tile |
| Documents to ask for | CE to EN 14041, DoP, EN 13501-1, REACH, fastness reports | Same set | Same set |
A starting point, not a verdict. Every row has an exception, and the exception is usually the detail that decides the job. Read the full comparison →
Where does woven vinyl work?
A surface that looks like textile and cleans like vinyl, for hospitality, corporate, retail, healthcare, education, residential and transport interiors.
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Hospitality
Guest rooms, corridors, lobbies and restaurants.
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Corporate offices
Open floors, meeting rooms and reception areas.
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Retail & showrooms
High-traffic surfaces that clean quickly.
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Healthcare
Wipe-clean surfaces for clinics and hospitals.
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Education
Floors and walls that stand up to daily use.
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Residential
Living spaces, plus texlymat® runners outdoors.
What makes it specifiable?
A specification survives on documents, not on adjectives. Four things decide whether a woven vinyl surface can be written into a project with confidence: original design rather than a bought-in pattern, stock held so a small order can ship, colour that is dyed through the fibre instead of printed on top, and a performance file that answers the fire, acoustic and fastness clauses in the spec. The four points below are what we can evidence, and each one has a report or a document behind it that can be sent to a client.
- Original designs — colourways and weave patterns are our own, developed in-house, with over 20 new patterns a month.
- From stock, no MOQ — much of the core range is held in stock and ships in 2 to 3 weeks, with no minimum order.
- Solution-dyed — colour runs through the yarn, so the surface resists fading.
- A performance textile — woven from vinyl-coated yarn: the look of natural fibre, the wear of vinyl, and it wipes clean with water.
Tested and documented
Every figure we quote comes with the report behind it. Flooring carries CE marking to EN 14041 (certificate 156) and wallcovering to EN 15102 (certificate 157). Reaction to fire is classified to EN 13501-1: Bfl-s1, d0 for the acoustic tiles and Cfl-s1, d0 for rolled flooring. Impact noise was measured at ΔLw 21 dB to BS EN ISO 10140-3 on the construction tested (SATRA report 4343-3975), while airborne absorption measures αw 0.05, which is not categorised. Colour fastness holds Grade 4 to 4.5 after 1,000 hours of UVA ageing, and castor chair testing rates r = 5 for continuous use. REACH, RoHS, AZO and phthalate screening sit behind all of it.
Questions buyers ask us first
The five that come up first in an enquiry. See all 32 questions →
What is your minimum order quantity (MOQ)?
Stock lines carry no minimum order quantity. Made-to-order widths and colours run 4 to 6 weeks; a design supplied by the customer starts at 1,000 m² per colour, and the exact minimum is confirmed with the quotation.
How do I get samples?
Sample books and A4 swatches are free of charge to qualified distributors and specifiers, with the courier at your cost (freight collect). Tell us the collections you are working with and we will send the right book.
What is the typical lead time?
Stock items can ship in as little as 2 to 3 weeks. Custom production takes 4 to 6 weeks after the samples are approved, and sampling itself takes 20 to 30 days.
What certifications do your products hold?
Products are tested to BS EN ISO 105-B02 and BS EN ISO 105-B04 for colour fastness, and carry CE marking to EN 14041 (certificate No. 156) for flooring and EN 15102 (No. 157) for wallcovering. Fire classification to BS EN 13501-1 and impact sound reduction to BS EN ISO 10140-3 are stated in the declarations of performance, and the full report set is on the resources page.
Do you develop custom weaves and colours?
Yes. Custom designs, colours and widths are developed in-house. Sampling takes 20 to 30 days and production starts at 1,000 m² per colour for most collections. Send the reference or the drawing and we will come back on what is achievable.
Selection guides: woven vinyl flooring, flooring for hotels, flooring for schools, gyms and studios, walls and furniture. All guides →