Custom Fabric Wristbands — Woven, Non-Locking Event Bands

Custom Fabric Woven Wristbands

Handband's new non-locking system works with any of our custom woven fabric wristbands. It features a non-locking slider that makes this perfect to re-use! 

The custom non-locking fabric woven wristband and our other fabric wristbands have additional security features available including barcoding, serialisation and UV weaves.

Place your order:

Select the quantity you require and email Handband your artwork and wristband requirements to [email protected] - include your order number.

We'll take care of the rest and email your wristband artwork for confirmation prior to production.

Fabric Wristband Specifications:

• Up to 8 total colors can be imprinted, per wristband design 

• Can be printed in any PMS (solid) color.

• Multi-Day Use 

• Variety of locking sliders (non-reuseable) 

• Also available in a Non-locking Slider (re-useable) 

• Length 350MM x Width 15MM

• Production time: 10-15 business days (depending on size of project), plus time for shipping.  Expedited production available on request at extra cost.

Fabric Wristband Additional Options:

• Numbering 

• Metallic/sparkle thread available 

• UV Thread 

• RFID (Radio-frequency identification) system

• Dye-sub wristbands available

• Larger sizes (0.75" thick) are also available for more brand real estate

Want to add more options? The actual custom options available are too numerous to list. If you have a special application or idea, give us a call to explore all that we have to offer.

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Please call 1300-368-980 to order or contact us for a quote.

What the non-locking slider changes

The slider moves both ways. That single difference decides which events this band suits, and which it does not.

It can be taken off and worn again

Guests loosen the band, remove it and put it back on. For a conference, a staff day, a school event or a brand activation that is exactly what you want — nothing has to be cut off, and the band goes home intact.

Which means it cannot secure paid entry

A removable band can be handed to somebody else. If the wristband is the ticket, this is the wrong product — use the barrel-lock woven band, which is tamper-evident and must be cut to remove. Choosing on price here costs you admissions.

It gets kept, which is the marketing case

Because it survives the event, a woven band keeps working afterwards. Conference bands turn up on wrists for weeks and festival bands get tied to bag straps. If your goal is brand exposure rather than access control, the reusable slider is the point rather than a compromise.

Woven, not printed — what that means for artwork

The design is thread

Your artwork is woven into the fabric rather than printed on top, which gives a textile finish that cannot rub off. The limit is resolution: thread cannot reproduce photographs, gradients or very fine detail the way ink can.

Choose printed if your design needs it

A single logo and a few words weave beautifully. A photographic or multi-colour design needs the printed non-locking band instead, which takes full-colour artwork edge to edge with the same reusable fit.

Keep it to the middle third

Only part of the band faces outward on a wrist, and the ends disappear around the fastener. Centre the logo and the one word that matters most; treat the rest as decorative.

Sizing when the band is adjustable

A sliding fastener means one length fits most adults, which removes the sizing problem that catches people out with fixed bands. It also means the wearer sets the tension themselves, so brief your gate staff to hand the band over rather than fit it — people adjust it more comfortably than a stranger will.

Ordering spares is cheaper here

Unlike tamper-evident bands, leftover stock is not wasted. A band that is not issued at this event can be issued at the next one, and a mis-fit costs nothing because it can simply be loosened. Order comfortably over your expected numbers rather than exactly to headcount.

Colour choices in woven fabric

Woven bands take colour differently to printed ones. The band colour and the thread colour are both chosen from a weaving palette rather than matched to a print reference, so a brand colour will be matched as closely as the yarn range allows rather than exactly. Send your colour reference with the artwork and we will tell you at proofing stage which yarn is the nearest match, before anything is woven. For designs where exact colour matching matters more than the textile finish, a printed band reproduces brand colours more faithfully.

Security features worth specifying

Even without a lock, these bands support numbering, barcoding, serialisation and UV weaves. They do not make the band tamper-evident, but they do make it traceable — useful for reconciling bands issued against attendees expected, or for voiding a specific number. All of it must be specified before production, not added later.

For a wide stretchy slip-on with no fastener at all, see elastic fabric wristbands; for recycled content, the RPET band. Browse the full fabric wristband range, or get a quote for your event.

Wearing one for several days

These stay on across a multi-day event, which is a different proposition to a few hours. Woven polyester holds moisture, so over a hot weekend of sunscreen and sweat the band sits damp against the same patch of skin. Rinsing it with the wrist under a tap and letting it dry takes a minute and prevents most discomfort. A small number of people react to prolonged damp contact with any material; if persistent redness or itching appears, take the band off — easy with this slider — and if it does not settle, seek advice. Healthdirect Australia covers contact dermatitis and when it warrants attention.

Non-locking woven wristband FAQs