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RFID fabric wristbands
A woven band is the compromise most resorts actually want for a one to three week stay. It is soft on a sunburnt wrist, it does not sweat like silicone under a watch strap, and a one-time plastic lock means it comes off with scissors or not at all. The artwork is woven into the fabric as thread, so it cannot fade — but that also fixes your design before the loom is set up.
| Fabric | Woven polyester, satin or tight weave |
|---|---|
| Artwork | Woven as thread, up to eight thread colours |
| Transponder housing | Sealed pocket behind the lock |
| Frequency | 13.56 MHz |
| Closure | One-time plastic lock, non-transferable |
| Width | 15 mm, 20 mm or 25 mm |
| Water | Pool, sea and shower for the wear period |
| Working life | Two to four weeks of continuous wear |
| Lead time | 18 days production, after artwork and technical approval |
Compatibility
Bands are encoded to work with the lock and point-of-sale systems your property already runs. We supply entry, standard and high-security HF transponders at 13.56 MHz, and 125 kHz where a property still runs a low-frequency estate.
Name the system on your enquiry and send a spare card if you have one. Bands arrive in sequential blocks, ready to issue, with nothing to program on site.
All third-party marks are the property of their respective owners. Any reference indicates compatibility only and does not imply affiliation or endorsement.
Substrates
Available in woven fabric, cloth stretch and Recycled PET.
The construction is fixed; the substrate is the decision. This is where wear period, water behaviour and unit price are actually settled.
Polyester weave
Woven fabric
Tightly woven polyester with the design in the weave. The most comfortable band for a stay measured in weeks.
Material specificationElastic knit
Cloth stretch
Seamless elastic knit with no closure at all. Nothing to snap, nothing to fail, nothing to adjust.
Material specificationrPET weave
Recycled PET
Woven from post-consumer bottle fibre. Performs like standard polyester weave with a documented input.
Material specificationWoven thread, and the deadline it creates
On a printed band the artwork is a layer applied to a surface, and every layer eventually abrades. On a woven band the artwork is the surface: coloured thread carried through the weave on a jacquard loom, so the design goes all the way through the fabric. Turn the band over and the pattern is visible in negative. Nothing can wear off a band whose graphic is structural, which is why a woven band looks the same in week three as it did in week one while a printed one does not.
The cost of that is a hard commitment point. Setting a loom to a design is a real setup, and it is done once per artwork. Changing a colour after the loom is set is not an edit, it is a re-set. This is the one product in the range where "can we just make the logo slightly bigger" is genuinely expensive after approval, and it is why the proof stage on a woven run asks for more from a property than any other band we make.
Weave density decides how fine the artwork can be. A tight weave carries small type and thin rules; a satin weave looks better and blurs anything under about 4 mm. Property names longer than roughly fourteen characters need the tight weave or a shorter lockup, and we will say which before the run rather than shipping a band whose name is a smudge.
The transponder sits in a sealed pocket behind the closure, where the band is doubled and there is no flexion. That position is deliberate: the wrist bends at the sides, not at the clasp. It also puts the chip where a guest naturally presents the band to a reader, palm down, which removes most of the "hold it differently" coaching a front desk otherwise has to do in the first week.
What it is used for
- One to three week all-inclusive stays
- Multi-day conferences and incentive groups
- Wellness retreats where comfort decides the band
- Any run where the design is fixed and the volume is high
What ships with the order
- Material declaration for the substrate supplied
- Transponder type and encoding record, per block
- Batch and quantity reconciliation per carton
- Artwork proof as approved, for your records
FSC-certified material options available with supporting production documentation.
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Price RFID fabric wristbands at your volume.
Runs start at 500. Send the quantity and the season length and we come back with a unit price, a delivery date, and samples of the recommended substrate.